UK Bus Driver Refuses Entry to Muslim Women Clad in Hijab

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Alwaght-The female Muslim students in Britain have been denied the right to board a bus travelling from Manchester to Leeds by an Islamophobic driver.
Yusra Ahmed, 20, says she and three friends experienced a “racist and Islamophobic” outburst by the bus driver who refused them entry on the pretext that they were bringing takeaway curry on board.
The three students who wore visible Islamic headscarves say the white driver treated them with hostility when first inspecting their tickets.
“She analyzed each of our tickets and coach cards very closely, which is something we noticed she didn’t do to any of the other passengers,” said Ahmed, a Middle Eastern studies and politics student at Leeds University.
The scuffle began when the three attempted to board the National Express coach carrying packaged food in carrier bags and were stopped for inspection by the driver. Despite their explanation the driver did not believe they were carrying cold food and doubted their intention of not eating on the journey home.
“She was obviously targeting us out of her preconceived ideas about brown people. We were visibly Muslim so this made it easier for her.”
After complaining about the driver’s “charade of racist and presumptuous stereotypes”, Ahmed says they were barred from travelling on the coach. She said a security guard asked her to apologize and threatened to report them.
The women were made to wait two hours for the next coach and said National Express only responded to them after the Facebook post gained attention.
Meanwhile, Arzu Merali, a London-based human rights campaigner, believes the latest incident comes against a backdrop of a growing wave of Islamophobia across the European countries, including the UK.
Speaking to Press TV on Friday, she said, "There has a year-on-year rise in hate attacks against Muslims in most European countries…These types of attacks have been going on for a very long time predating 9/11 and take many forms including discrimination, media representation.

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