Muslim women avoid reporting racism Shouts of 'Terrorist' and 'Osama Bin Laden' on the way into an Eid party. Being chased out of a park crying because a man thinks the way you dress is a danger to children. Both racism. Both to Muslim women. Neither reported to the police.
Amina is a Scottish helpline for the country's Muslim females.
Workers take around five to six calls a day, sometimes for hours at a time, and they say approximately half the women who call will have suffered hate crime of some sort. Of those, only one in four will go to the police.
One reason given is that the women feel an incident is too trivial, or don't feel the police could actually do anything about it.
The helpline says it is recording a worrying number of callers who are accustomed to the racism and pass it off as part of life.