A Muslim woman has gone viral after posing in front of anti-Muslim protesters.
She posted her pic to Instagram, captioning it with a quote from the Prophet Muhammad written in the Koran.She wrote on Twitter she “smiled in the face of bigotry and walked away feeling the greatest form of accomplishment”.The photograph of the smiling Muslim woman against the background of the aggressive Christian men has since gone viral.
More than 82,000 people liked the post or shared it to Twitter, and thousands more praised Shaymaa’s attitude in such a distressing situation.
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