Muslim women have revealed shocking incidents of Islamophobia and some feel many such incidents go unaccounted for.

Incidents included a medical student abused by patients she is trying to help and a mum targeted alongside her children because she was brave enough to report the abuse to police.

One of the growing number of victims of Islamophobia are women.

A single mother of two speaks of her incessant harassment because she has chosen to wear the hijab and abaya.

“I’ve been wearing the hijab out of choice since I was 20. My mum doesn’t wear hijab, neither do my sisters.

“I never had an issue because of my headscarf before.

“It’s only in the last year that I have experienced this type of racism. I’ve been called ‘Bin Laden’s wife’ and ‘traitor’ in the streets.

“Somehow I have become accustomed to verbal abuse and hard stares when I am out. 
“But when the abuse came to my home, I had to take action.

“I had eggs smashed through my letterbox one evening. It was the same day that a local group of boys threw a fizzy drink over me and called me a ‘lazy immigrant.’

“I called the police that evening. 

“The police were very good- they arrived immediately and were incredibly empathetic. The next day they cautioned the gang.

“Later that day, it was no coincidence that my car window got smashed.

“I can’t live with my children in fear like this. Perhaps the gang see me as an easier target because I have young children and I don’t have a husband.

“I have since moved.”

A PhD student, 26, tells us how she is repeatedly intimidated on public transport. “I wear niqab. That’s my choice. I don’t even discuss religion with my colleagues. It never comes into the equation.

“Yet strangers seem more upset by my fashion choice than anyone who knows me.

“Because I am in the lab for long hours, I often don’t leave until quite late.

“This means I am on the train during unsociable hours.

“People will avoid sitting next to me.

“I have seen people who think they are subtle taking pictures of me. No doubt they have posted them on social media.

“Once a guy made a mock gun sign with his hand as he stared at me.

“I have encountered more than a fair share of drunken men who make their feelings very clear.

“I’ve been called a filthy Arab by a group of men who then emptied their beer cans on my hijab.
“When the train is moving, there is no escape until the next stop.

“In shopping centres I have had security men following me around. It’s easier just to leave to be honest.”

A medical student who wears a hijab reveals how she has been blatantly discriminated at by patients.

“Too many patients have refused to give me their patient history, for no apparent reason.
 
“When my supervisor told one particularly irate patient that I was perfectly capable to take her medical history, she spat at me.

“Another patient told me to go back to my own country as I’m taking up a white person’s job. I don’t think there’s any point telling people like that that I was born in England.”

A 17-year old A-level student who also wears hijab says she can comprehend to an extent why there are such potent levels of Islamophobia.

“The day after Brussels, I felt the hatred in a very obvious way. 

“On the train the man sitting next to me started a very loud conversation with his friend talking about ‘f**king Muslims blowing up another bomb’ and how ‘Islam is a violent religion’ and that ‘all Muslims secretly condone the terrorist attacks.’

“No-one else said anything on the underground-people don’t intervene really, do they? 
“I was angry at hearing this, but I don’t even blame people for having that opinion.

“When there are so many frequent attacks all attributed to Muslim terrorist groups, what do you expect people to think?

“These terrorists have ruined if for all the ‘normal’ Muslims.”