THE NORTHERN STAR: A WOMAN said she was terrified after she was spat on and called a terrorist at a Murwillumbah service station this week.
The practicing Muslim, who requested to remain anonymous, said she was fuelling her car up when a hostile man pulled up and began to scream abuse at her on Wednesday.
"A man got out (of the car) ... He came towards the bowser and I wasn't sure if he was going to head butt me or punch me, or pour petrol on me and light me up," she said.
"But I knew there was going to be trouble."
She said the man approached her and started to call her a "terrorist" and told her to "go back to where you f***ing came from."
The Tweed Coast resident couldn't believe the man was treating her in such a way and believed it was because she was wearing a traditional Islamic face cover known as a niqab.
"(He was) calling me a terrorist when he was terrorising me," she recalled.
"Calling me oppressed yet he was oppressing me."
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