Photojournalist Sabiha Mahmoud said the stranger was listening to her speaking and pointed at her, saying: \u201cYou lot are leaving next.\u201d<\/p>\n
The whereabouts of the incident has not been exposed.<\/p>\n
Ms Mahmoud, a mother-of-two, wrote on Facebook: \u201cNationalism, fear and hatred has never served any country well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is wholly inappropriate and insensitive to make jokes at this time when real people\u2019s lives are and will be affected by this historically heartbreaking decision.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur opinions can be expressed without the name calling, alienating people and making sweeping generalisations which will only harden attitudes.<\/p>\n
\u201cBritain despite what you have put me through personally, I will not let fear win and I still hope you won\u2019t either.\u201d<\/p>\n
Erdington MP Jack Dromey (Lab) said separately that the EU referendum and vote for Brexit has set free to \u201ca tidal wave of racial abuse and attacks”.<\/p>\n
Polish citizens of Birmingham have also been called \u201cscum\u201d and told to \u201cgo home\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n
The West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner said he had received accounts of hate crime.<\/p>\n
The Muslim Council of Britain cautioned the public of \u201ccountless incidents\u201d of racism soon after the English Defence League held a rally outside a Birmingham mosque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Photojournalist Sabiha Mahmoud said the stranger was listening to her speaking and pointed at her, saying: \u201cYou lot are leaving next.\u201d The whereabouts of the incident has not been exposed. Ms Mahmoud, a mother-of-two, wrote on Facebook: \u201cNationalism, fear and hatred has never served any country well. \u201cIt is wholly inappropriate and insensitive to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":15384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,3,40,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","category-politics-news","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}