Re: Sydney Stands Up To Racism And Bigotry With One Beautiful Hashtag:
Yaar don’t be angry. I’m from Sydney and 24/7 this has been on news. They’ve talked about this hash tag twitter campaign. The girl took off her hijab in anticipation of islamaphobia related comments but did not face any. The other girl chased her and told her her to put it on. Some Racism exists like in all countries but no hijab friends I have have reported anything.
On the world affairs thread about the incident I’ve put up examples of tweets. There have been about 120000 in total.
They’ve shows muslim leaders and women in hijab putting flowers at the memorial site for the victims and plenty of people condemning it and saying it does not represent us.
The police have been mature not releasing details and the gunman called radio hosts to spew his message but they refused to engage with him.. I am confident there won’tbe much or hardly any backlash.