An Australian woman has been hailed as a legend for standing up to defend a Muslim woman who was being harassed on a Sydney train.
Stacey Eden said she pulled out her camera phone after witnessing “a good 10 minutes” of abuse from a woman travelling from Town Hall to the airport about 1.40pm on Wednesday.
Ms Eden’s footage begins with the woman in red saying to a woman in a hijab opposite her: “Why do you wear it for a man that marries a six year-old girl?”
The Muslim woman, who is sitting with a bearded man and a baby in a pram, does not respond.
Ms Eden said on Thursday that she was overwhelmed by the response to her actions.
“I genuinely have tears in my eyes at the messages people have sent me,” she said. “I didn’t realise how something so small would end up being so important.”
Ms Eden told her Facebook friends that it took “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.”
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She said she wasn’t sure what response she’d get from others on the train carriage but she felt compelled to say something because it seemed that the Muslim woman and her husband were too scared.
