Muslim woman thanks train passengers who defended her during racist rant

A Newcastle woman has thanked a number of train passengers who came to her defence after a man threatened her and her sister with anti-Muslim abuse last Saturday afternoon. In a Facebook post, 23-year-old Ruhi Rahman said a woman sitting next to her jumped in to help after a man started to make racially threatening comments towards her. After the woman intervened, most of the other passengers on the Tyne and Wear Metro also stepped in forcing the man to leave the train.
"It was so sweet to see how everyone in the metro got the man off and then clapped at the end. It really shows me how this world is full of such sweet people and some dogs too," Rahman said in the post on her Facebook page.
"It made me smile and appreciate how lovely they all were."

Image: Facebook Ruhi Rahman

Rahman, who has reported the incident to the police, told the Chronicle it was the "true Geordie" spirit that shone through.
"They were my angels that day and I can’t thank them enough,” she said.
Northumbria police sat they are investigating the incident.
“Northumbria Police take a hard stance against any form of attack on any minority group or individual and officers will be investigating this report,” the Chronicle quoted Metro Inspector Ian King as saying.
Last week, a London commuter stepped in to defend a young Muslim woman after she was racially abused in a rant on the tube. 22-year-old Ashley Powys wrote in a Facebook post that he was travelling on a Victoria line train on Nov. 16 when he saw a man in his 30s shouting at the teenager and calling her a terrorist.
Earlier this week, The Independent reported that there's been a sharp increase in hate crimes towards British Muslims after the Paris attacks. In the week following the killings, there have been 115 incidents mostly towards girls and women aged between 14 and 45.