A Hijab-clad Muslim woman and her friends in New Zealand were targets of foul-mouthed racist comments at a rest stop with a woman yelling expletives and throwing beer cans at them, The Hindustan Times reported.
Mehpara Khan, 28, and four of her friends stopped in Huntly while returning to Auckland, when a woman walking by began hurled expletives and racist comments at them. Khan uploaded a video of the incident on Twitter.
I'm covered in beer – I feel disgusting ☹️
— Mehpara Khan (@MehparaK) February 11, 2017
“All of a sudden this woman comes out of the bathroom and starts swearing at us and telling us that we don’t belong there and that we are Muslim *******, that need to **** ***, basically,” Nea Zealand Herald quoted Khan as saying. “She then threw a beer can at me and two at my two friends. I’m covered in beer – I feel disgusting,” Khan wrote.
“We weren’t doing anything, we didn’t actually even initially realise she was talking to us,” she added. “Once she threw in the line of Muslim *-words that’s when we realised she was yelling at us.”
Anjum Rahman, the spokeswoman at the Islamic Women’s Council in New Zealand, said it was “very disappointing but not surprising” for such an attack to have taken place.
With a population of approximately 4.7 million people in New Zealand, 25 per cent were born overseas, 32 per cent are foreign-born residents from Asia and 27 per cent from Britain and Ireland.
Courtesy: Hindustan Times
