In the past few weeks, visible Muslims have been the target of social media vitriol, verbal abuse and physical assaults. Even children are not spared: an Islamic school was targeted by a knife-wielding man.
Source/Credit: The Sydney Morning Herald
By Mariam Veiszadeh | October 11, 2014
"I'm afraid of leaving my house with my young children because I don't know how to protect both if them if someone attacked us." So says a friend of mine – an otherwise confident mother of two.
"It wasn't the physical altercation that hurt me, it was those words." That's another friend who was physically attacked by a man in Sydney's CBD. He called her a "f---ing terrorist!" among other expletives.
"I just got spat on by some random freak." And that's yet another friend who was recently abused while walking in Central Station.
These are the experiences of Australian Muslim women who happen to wear their faith publicly.
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In the past few weeks, visible Muslims have been the target of social media vitriol, verbal abuse and physical assaults. Even children are not spared: an Islamic school was targeted by a knife-wielding man.
Incidents of Islamophobia are plainly on the rise but the authorities would tell you otherwise.
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Mariam Veiszadeh is a lawyer, Welcome to Australia ambassador and founder of Islamophobia Register Australia and the #WISH social media campaign.
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