Australian man gets a black eye after he stood up to defend Muslim women from abuse

Police said they were investigating the incident and had been provided video of the incident be other train passengers

An Australian got punched in the face for standing up and defending three Muslim women facing verbal abuse in the second such incident in a month.

It began with two men in orange tops verbally abusing three women wearing headscarves, in a train in Melbourne.

According to Australian The Age newspaper, one of the two abusive men pointed at one of the Muslim women who was sitting next to him and said “You shouldn’t be wearing that s*** in Australia.”

As the argument ensued, one of the elder women among the three spoke in Arabic in an apparent attempt to calm things.

But it only invited more abuse as the two men turned around and told her, “You shouldn’t be speaking that s*** in Australia.”

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Perturbed by the situation, the women got off the train but the abuse followed them as one of the men shouted out a sexual threat towards her.

At this one man got up and tried to intervene.

"I said to the guy, Mate, they are women. The implication there was you don't threaten people, particularly women,” said Jason Cias, 36, had stood up.

At this, one of the two abusive men came and punched Cias in the face followed by a brief scuffle. The incident was filmed by onlookers who later provided it to police officials as evidence.

Cias got a ‘pretty good black eye’ for his valour, and insisted that he would repeat his actions if he found himself in similar circumstances again. In fact, he said he wished he had intervened in the matter earlier.

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A spokesperson for Victoria Police confirmed the incident and said that they were investigating matter which occurred on 3:30pm train that departed from Melbourne Central Station to reach Craigieburn on May 15.

On April 16, an Australian woman had stood up for a Muslim couple who was being verbally attacked based on their religion on a train in Sydney.

A passenger was hurling abuse and hurtful insults at a middle-aged man and his wife, when Stacy Eden, 23, decided to step in and defend them.

The article first appeared on The Independent