UGGGGH. Okay, so you know how Godwin’s Law states that the longer an online discussion goes on, the probability of someone mentioning Nazis and / or Hitler goes up?
A little closer to home, and the same total BS is happening in Australia. Earlier today Sydney woman Mini Elali was approached by a random dude at Lidcombe train station and asked: “How are the terrorists?”
“Then he stood right next to me, just glaring at me. I took my phone from my bag and took a photo, hoping he wouldn’t notice.”
This man just approached me at Lidcombe station #Sydney and asked me “how are the terrorists going?” pic.twitter.com/ldyDAV49oJ
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
Mini says the bloke was just standing there and “muttering under his breath, he was staring at me, he had a very angry look on his face. I took the photo and got away from him. I walked down the other end of the platform.”
And forever I will say, these men ONLY ever “confront” Muslim women (who wear the scarf).
Cowardly and pathetic.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
I have been physically attacked in Sydney & harassed and insulted. I personally don’t know any Muslim man who has been.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
I was attacked in 2011. I was waiting for a bus. A white woman started harassing me. Ended w her calling me a Muslim slut & grabbing my face
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
And she called me a “c^nt” and a “whore” and spat at me. I was just waiting for the bus! And about 15 people watched. No one said a word.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
And people always tell me to stop “complaining” about treatment of Muslim women in Australia. We are harassed and abused, you STFU.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
Another time, I was waiting for a bus, a man drove past, saw me and cocked his hand like a gun & told me to “fuck off back to the desert”
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
Another time, the bus driver wouldn’t let me on the bus! He let my husband on, then shut the doors on me! My husband demanded he let me on.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
Another time, bus driver saw me waving at him to stop. He looked at me, made a face & kept going. I complained to the bus company.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
So this incident today is nothing new. This time I got a photo tho. I do not like the insinuation that I am a terrorist.
— Mi?i (@miniestmini) March 24, 2016
We asked Mini why she thought it was always Muslim women, rather than men, who are made to feel unsafe on the street thanks to their religion and a minuscule number of violent extremists.
“We are obvious in the community, unfortunately we stand out,” she said.
“I personally have not heard of a Muslim man being harassed, I think it shows the inherent nature of these bigoted men; they are sexist and bigoted and purposely target women.
“It’s ironic to me that people complain about how Muslim women are oppressed by Muslim men, but these same people only harass Muslim women.”
She reported the incident to police, but they reckon nothing much will come out of it.