A Windsor teacher whose three young children were traumatized as their mother was threatened and verbally abused by a stranger, simply for wearing a hijab, is hoping to use the incident to help educate the community about the ugliness of discrimination.
"I'm hoping to have an open dialogue — Muslims are a fabric of our community," said Dalal Boulbol.
It was a piece of fabric wrapped around her head, while she was driving her kids to school Thursday morning, that appeared to trigger the fury of a motorist in the next lane at a red light.
The middle-aged woman in the other vehicle rolled down her window, so Boulbol did likewise, thinking someone might be looking for directions. What followed, she said, was a foul-mouthed stream of obscenity-laden curses and threats.
"'You f-ing terrorist! Go back to your own country!' Then she used the B-word," Boulbol recalled, not wanting to repeat the vulgar words. Boulbol said she started laughing, in part to comfort her three children, ages four to eight.
That's when the other driver went ballistic, grabbing the steering wheel, shaking it in fury and then gesturing with slicing motions across her throat, her face contorted in rage. The light changed, and Boulbol continued south down Howard Avenue, the angry woman turning left onto Highway 3.
The kids, she said, "just didn't understand what happened, I told them I laughed because it was just nonsense."
But it wasn't over.
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