"I was returning from work on the train — a lady started pushing me with her bag and she started yelling at me and telling me to go back to the Middle East. I didn't come from the Middle East," the petite and softly spoken mother of three said.
Nasrin is originally from Bangladesh, but has been in Australia since 1991.
She was attacked twice around that time and admitted she was "shaken inside" and lived in fear.
She would sit next to the emergency button on the train just in case she was attacked again.
"Racism hurts", she told a 200-strong crowd at a forum on Islamophobia in the Melbourne suburb of Coburg. [ABC] Read more
