This story is almost too unbelievable to be true.

A teacher is being investigated after he said the word “ham” during a geography lesson and apparently offended a Muslim boy in class. The boy has become so distraught he says he can’t even get out of bed. The teacher says he won let one boy dictate the learning of the other 29 students.

From the Spanish paper Diario de Jerez, via Jihad Watch (emphasis added):

This paper has learned that the teacher was lecturing normally on the different climates of the planet and used the Granada town of Trevélez as an example of a cold, dry climate. As an anecdote, the teacher recounted that just such a climate was conducive to the curing of hams. Then the student asked the teacher not to speak of hams since the subject offended him as a Muslim.

According to what we have learned from sources at the school, the teacher responded that he was simply giving an example and that he did not in his classes take into account the religion that any of his students practiced.

Now the police are involved.