"I'll ride with you."

[christian]

From the BBC:

As a gunman holds people hostage in a cafe in Sydney, thousands of messages of support have been posted online for Muslims in Australia who are afraid of an Islamophobic backlash.

The spark was this post on Facebook by Rachael Jacobs, who said she'd seen a woman she presumed was Muslim silently removing her hijab while sitting next to her on the train: "I ran after her at the train station. I said 'put it back on. I'll walk with u'. She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute - then walked off alone'.

The story of Rachael's encounter with a woman in religious attire inspired this Twitter user, 'Sir Tessa', aka Tessa Kum: "If you reg take the #373 bus b/w Coogee/MartinPl, wear religious attire, & don't feel safe alone: I'll ride with you. @ me for schedule," user 'Sir Tessa' tweeted. Moments later she tweeted "Maybe start a hashtag? What's in #illridewithyou?"

[Anchor]

I think I will put #illridewithyou on my bag

[ghostrider]

Great story ... Love in action , we live on Earth together , we should have never let anything divide us from the beginning ... love does conquer all , although one may agree or disagree , the option to be different or of a different viewpoint should be honored ... We don't cut the tree down over one bad apple ...

[BMJ]

Hi Everyone,
I live in sydney's west where there are plenty of middle eastern people, back in 1991 during the first gulf war and during the cronulla riots in 2005 the tension in the air out here was that thick you could cut it with a knife.

But today after the sydney hostage crisis it business as usual and I have not seen any sign of racisms at all.

Best wishes, Boris

P.S. The fact that we are accepting of all people's regardless of their heritage, makes me very proud to be australian.