{"id":12059,"date":"2019-11-22T14:16:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=12059"},"modified":"2019-11-22T14:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T09:16:50","slug":"pregnant-muslim-woman-punched-kicked-in-islamophobic-attack-in-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/12059","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant Muslim Woman Punched, Kicked in ‘Islamophobic Attack’ in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

A pregnant 31-year-old Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was injured in an Islamophobic attack in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n

Rana Elasmar, was punched and kicked by 43-year-old resident Stipe Lozina, while she was sitting in a cafe with her friends, who were also wearing headscarves, New South Wales Police department said.<\/p>\n

Shocking security camera footage showed a man approaching a table of three women wearing headscarves as they chatted at a cafe in the city on Wednesday (Nov 20).<\/p>\n

Seemingly without provocation, the 43-year-old suspect is seen lunging over the table to attack a 31-year-old woman, who police said is 38 weeks pregnant.<\/p>\n

After several frenzied punches, the woman fell to the ground and was stamped on, before bystanders wrestled the assailant away.<\/p>\n

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Police said a suspect has been charged with assaultoccasioning actual bodily harm and affray\u00a0and denied bail.<\/p>\n

Australian Federation of Islamic Councils (AFIC) and Australian National Imams Council (ANIC), the two main Islamic organizations in the country, condemned the attack.<\/p>\n

“This was clearly a racist and Islamophobic attack and we expect it to be treated as such,” saidRateb Jneid, the head of AFIC.<\/p>\n

Victim woman Elasmar was discharged from the hospital after treatment.<\/p>\n

A recent report by researchers at Charles Sturt University found Islamophobia in Australia was “a continuous phenomenon” and women wearing headscarves are especially at risk.<\/p>\n

Of 113 female victims who reported being physically intimidated or harassed, researchers found 96 per cent were wearing a headscarf.<\/p>\n

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A pregnant 31-year-old Muslim woman wearing a headscarf was injured in an Islamophobic attack in Sydney, Australia. Rana Elasmar, was punched and kicked by 43-year-old resident Stipe Lozina, while she was sitting in a cafe with her friends, who were also wearing headscarves, New South Wales Police department said. Shocking security camera footage showed a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1417,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12062,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12059\/revisions\/12062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}