Muslim woman assaulted, hijab pulled off in UK

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

“This man at Baker Street station forcefully attempted to pull my hijab off and when I instinctively grabbed a hold 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,” the tweet read. 

Abdulkadir added that a woman who was present was also threatening and verbally abusive, the report said. A British Transport Police spokesman said it was being investigated as a hate crime. “Behaviour like this is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated. This incident has been reported to us and we’re investigating,” official said. However, a man claiming to be the man in the image tweeted on July 17 to protest his innocence, claiming he had been defending his partner from what he called a “racist attack”, the Guardian reported. 

Around 15 Conservative party MPs have agreed to sign a no-confidence motion against British Prime Minister Theresa May as part of a plot to oust her, according to a media report.

Although the letter of no confidence falls short of the 48 names required to trigger a leadership contest, the UK Parliament’s summer break could prove critical for May’s future as British PM, The Sunday Times reported. 

“The numbers change from day to day depending on what’s happened but there are about 15 who are fairly consistent in their desire for change. If she has a quiet summer and there are no crises and things are not mismanaged then she might be able to cling on beyond conference, but that is still a big if,” a former minister was quoted as saying.

The reports come days after a summer party in the House of Commons last week where May pleaded with her MPs to “go away and have a proper break and come back ready for serious business”. “No backbiting, no carping. The choice is me or Jeremy Corbyn - and no one wants him,” Conservative MPs who were present reported her as saying. 

Meanwhile, a Conservative party survey indicates that some Tory grassroots MPs want May to quit by Christmas time this year.