Alaa

I worked at a library in downtown Guelph. Part of the job was retrieving comic books from the Dragon Comics store in the Quebec Street Mall. 

I am visibly Muslim as I wear the hijab. I was carrying a box filled with comics back to the library and it was getting dark. There was a bunch of men and women standing near a church in that street and they began trying to call me over and when I refused nicely they began calling me a “towel-head” and a “terrorist”. When I came near the traffic lights I had to cross the street to the side they were standing on and one of the men began walking towards me quickly still yelling profanities. Luckily a coworker was standing outside and stopped the traffic. I was able to run across the street and into the library. Sadly, this was not the first time this happened. After that I requested that I no longer retrieve the comics.