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Mon Jun 20, 2016, 10:12 PM Jun 2016

New Yorkers defend Muslim women harassed by racist Trump supporter

By HANNAH PARRY FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:43 EST, 19 June 2016
UPDATED: 03:07 EST, 20 June 2016

A subway car full of New Yorkers leaped to the defense of two Muslim women being harassed by a racist Trump supporter.

Commuter Amaira Hasan was riding on the F train from Jamaica, Queens, to her job in Manhattan on Monday morning - the day after the Orlando massacre - when she says an man stepped onboard and began hurling abuse at two women wearing hijabs ...

... a Romanian man .. confronted the aggressor .. asking if he should be forced to leave because he was also a 'foreigner'.

And a gay man challenged the passenger whether he had a problem with the LGBT community as 'he seemed to have a problem with everyone else' ...


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3649260/New-Yorkers-defend-two-Muslim-women-harassed-racist-Trump-supporter-subway-day-Orlando-mass-shooting.html

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