A mother-of-three who converted to Islam when she got married and has renounced Islam now, claims her two sons are trying to kill her because she turned her back on the religion and they believe that all westerners are ‘animals.’

9NEWS Nadia, 40, who has withheld her surname, is so scared for her life that she is reportedly hiding in a safe house in Melbourne with her 18-year-old daughter (below). She added that ‘It is in an honour for them to kill somebody whose turned away from Islam’, even if it is their own mother.

Things escalated in October last year, when Nadia’s two eldest sons (photo below) turned up at her former home in Melbourne’s western suburbs, brutally bashing her new husband. “They were screaming we’re going to kill you, we need you dead,” she told ACA. The young men fled when police arrived, with officers later allegedly finding several rifles in their possession.

The 40-year-old, originally from Bendigo, met her ex-husband when she was in her late teens. She fell head over heels and converted to Islam but “struggled to do daily prayers, daily washing” and “read the Koran”.

She claims she denounced the faith after growing concerned about growing anti-western sentiment in the family and discovering her ex-husband had been seeing other women – a move that ultimately led to the October incident.

“Maybe after today, there will be some women who will say ‘hey I am human, I’m not an animal’ and maybe they will get the chance to be free,” she said.

She has opened-up about her time in the religion and her fears surrounding her sons in a tearful interview on Channel Nine’s A Current Affair.