Suburban Chicago Islamic school copes with fear, sadness after threat

Students go back to class at an Islamic school in Chicago’s southwest suburbs after a threat sent them home last month. They’re combatting hate at home while they worry for loved ones as Israel’s siege on Gaza continues. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Seventeen girls sit in a second floor classroom at their Islamic school in Chicago’s southwest suburbs.

The whiteboard in their AP U.S Government class features notes about the U.S. Constitution, the First Amendment and the Declaration of Independence. They’re questioning whether these rights afforded to Americans apply to them.