Autralian Muslim woman suffers broken arm in hate attack..

Autralian Muslim woman suffers broken arm in hate attack..

By: OnIslam & Newspapers

Source: http://www.onislam.net/

Another Australian Muslim woman has suffered a broken arm after being assaulted in a Melbourne street earlier this month, amid increasing physical attacks targeting the religious minority.

“A man approached my mum and said, ‘You Muslims, go back to where you came from’,” Abrar Ahmed, the daughter of the woman, told Northern Star Weekly on Sunday, October 26.

“As my mum turned around to see who was yelling at her in such a disgusting way, she saw this really big guy.

The 48-year-old woman, who was wearing a hijab and a “long Islamic dress”, had been shopping at Lalor Plaza and was on her way home when she was attacked.

Her daughter, sitting in the car, saw the incident.

“He pushed her on the ground, she landed in the middle of the road,” Ahmed said.

“When she fell on the ground she broke her arm. She heard her bone crack,” she added.

The attack on Ahmed’s mother is not the first to target Australia Muslim women.

In an earlier attack, a Carlton woman was pushed down the steps of a tram earlier this month, falling into the metal barricade on the street.

The woman, Quman Ali, said the incident occurred about 6.30pm on a weeknight on a packed No. 1 tram travelling to East Coburg.

As she tried to exit the tram, a man whom she was passing pushed her down the stairs.

“He pushed me out of the tram. When I looked up he was mumbling something. I was so shocked, I could not even say anything,” she said.

The attack left the Muslim woman with an injured knee. However, she did not report it to police.

Another Muslim woman has been assaulted and racially abused before being thrown from a moving Melbourne train last month.

Protesting recent attacks against Muslims, Ahmed has organized a recent protest to reject Islamophobia and racism.

“A lot of other Muslim women, they have been going through worse assaults, they are being attacked in very different ways and they don’t have the courage to speak out,” Ahmed said.

Trust

Noticing increasing Islamophobic attacks, Melbourne officials stressed that the recent assaults were a direct result of current political climate.

“It can divide our community and some people end up on the receiving end of abuse. In this case, Muslim Australians – and especially women – tell me they are being harassed and assaulted,” Federal member for Melbourne Adam Bandt said.

Brunswick police Acting Senior Sergeant Ben Davies said police take all reports of racist attacks seriously.

“I think sometimes people have a fear of reporting or think there is no point in reporting, so we are engaging with the community to encourage them.”

Muslims, who have been in Australia for more than 200 years, make up 1.7 percent of its 20-million population.

In post 9/11-era, Australian Muslims have been haunted with suspicion and have had their patriotism questioned.

The anti-Muslim sentiments further increased following last week’s anti-terror raids, deemed the biggest in Australian history, in which 15 people were arrested from north-western Sydney.

The raids were followed by a huge number of anti-Muslim attacks, including a mosque being defaced in Queensland and direct threats issued against the Grand Mufti of Australia.