Aussie Defends Hijab-Wearing Woman And Shames Racist Abuser

By R. Siva Kumar - 21 Apr '15 10:28AM

Stacey Eden has shown an unusual brand of heroism and is shown up as a brave Australian on social media, because she defends a Muslim couple who suffers racial abuse on a train in Sydney.

She videotaped it on Wednesday and put it up on Facebook, which brought thousands of comments and 'likes'. After that, the video went viral, according to hindustantimes.

Even though Australia is full of communal tension, the siege of a café in Sydney by an extreme Muslim, leaving three people, including an attacker dead, has stirred up more tension in the city.

The video shows how a woman begins to abuse a man and another woman with a hijab sitting opposite her in a train, accusing them of being part of ISIS. Stacey begins to interfere after she hears "a good 10 minutes" of it and then takes on the attacker. She agrees to help defend what is right, according to theindependent.

Hence, the tape begins when a woman wearing red floral trousers asks another woman wearing a hijab on the other side: "Why do you wear it for a man that marries a six year-old girl?"

The Muslim woman is seated with a bearded man and a baby in a pram and just keeps quiet.

Stacey retorts: "She wears it for herself, okay? She wears it because she wants to be modest with her body, not because of people like you who are going to sit there and disrespect her."

However, the other woman does not terminate the argument. She says: "Your kids behead people."

Stacey then retorts again, saying that what one section of Muslims do has nothing to do with the entire community.

"That's not her doing it. That's a minority of people, not a majority of people."

The woman does not stop, but takes up the issue of Christians getting killed and Muslims fighting in Syria, when Stacey responds: "What's that got to do with this lady?"

The abuser responds: "Nothing, you're the one that started the argument."

Stacey declares that it was the other woman who started it, and adds: "If you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything, it's simple."

Stacey goes on that it takes "everything in me to hold back on this woman, she made me soo angry! I had to actually stop myself before I got too worked up."

She repeats that she intended to get across a message to everyone.

"The point of this is, don't sit there putting someone down because they are wearing a scarf, she never did anything, she sat there and didn't say a word, but I can only imagine how she was feeling inside."