This Is What Happened When a White Man Spat on a Woman Wearing Hijab
When the unthinkable happens to you in a public place, the hope is that some anonymous strangers will come to your defense. But when Iqra Mohamed, a 20-year-old Muslim woman who lives in London, says she was spat on by an unidentified white man on a public bus, no one came to her defense. Instead, according to Mohamed’s account, people laughed. “A white man spat at me in a buss of people and kept on cussing me out cause of my hijab while people smiled a laughed along,” she tweeted from an account that has since been made private. (more…)
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