Ms Sarsour shared the email on Twitter (Picture: Noam Galai/WireImage)

A Muslim woman and Palestinian activist has shared a disturbing rape threat email she was sent by a stranger.

Linda Sarsour, a co-chair of the historic Women’s March on Washington, has over 221,000 followers on Twitter.

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And she bravely shared a disturbing hate-filled email to her enormous following.

In the email, the writer said he hoped someone will rape the former executive director of the Arab American Association.


The message, which had the subject heading as ‘Sharia’, also contained a highly offensive comment about the Quran, which was misspelt by the writer.

The writer misspelt ‘Quran’ (Picture: @lsarsour/ Twitter)

Ms Sarsour, who is based in Brooklyn, New York, shared the email to her followers with the caption: ‘When folks claim I follow a violent religion but send me these types of emails. #TheIronyisStarting’



The email read: ‘You are a vile and disgusting c**t.

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‘I hope someone rapes you in the a** and s**ts in your mouth.

‘The karan (sic) is a piece of s**t and Mohamed (sic) was a f***ot and a child molester.

‘F**k you.’

While some Twitter users continued to respond to her link with racist and Islamophobic abuse, others rallied to support her.

Ms Sarsour co-charied the Women’s March on Washington (Picture: Jennifer Graylock)

Rebekah Kochan wrote: ‘I’m so sorry. This is horrible.’

And another Twitter user, Juliana wrote: ‘Absolutely disgusted when reading this email. I don’t understand how people have the mind and heart to type this horrific stuff.’

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A spike in Islamophobic hate crime has been observed across several countries in recent months.

The number of Islamophobic hate crimes in the UK jumped fivefold in the wake of the London Bridge Terror attack, according to the Independent.

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