Hindustan Times ST (Jaipur)

Muslim woman assaulted, hijab pulled in Britain

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the Scottish Highlands, and William had earlier told Diana of the “very good time” they were having. “Harry and I were in a desperate rush to say goodbye, you know ‘see you later’...if I’d known now obviously what was going to happen I wouldn’t have been so blase about it and everything else,” William told ITV. “But that phone call sticks in my mind, quite heavily.”

To mark the 20th anniversar­y of her death, the princes announced earlier this year they were setting up a committee to raise funds to pay for a statue of Diana, who was known as the Princess of Wales.

The statue is to be erected in the public gardens of Kensington Palace in London, where she lived. The documentar­y, entitled “Diana, Our mother: her Life and Legacy” is to be aired in the UK on Monday. AFP

A Muslim woman’s hijab was pulled off allegedly by a man in London, amid a spike in hate crimes following a series of terror attacks by Islamists in the UK.

Aniso Abdulkadir was waiting for a tube at Baker Street station on July 16 when she says the man grabbed her headscarf before lashing out with his fists and pinning one of her friends up against a wall, the BBC reported.

“This man at Baker Street station forcefully attempted to pull my hijab off and when I instinctiv­ely grabbed ahold of my scarf he hit me,” Abdulkadir tweeted and posted a picture of the man who allegedly attacked her. “He proceeded to verbally abuse my friends and I, pinning one of them against the wall and spitting in her face,” she said. PTI

 ?? AFP ?? A file picture of Princess Diana holding Prince William while pregnant with Prince Harry at an undisclose­d location.
AFP A file picture of Princess Diana holding Prince William while pregnant with Prince Harry at an undisclose­d location.

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