Victims of racist attacks fear reoccurrence as Australia launches inquiry into right-wing extremism

Anam Javed was shopping for vegetables at her local supermarket when a man ripped her hijab off her head.

In shock, she told herself it must have just flown off by accident, but she soon realised she was being verbally abused.

Ms Javed went to the information counter looking for help but was followed by the man, who yelled phrases she can’t forget.

“They [Muslims] have f***ing made it here too,” she recalled him saying, which she took to suggest he was concerned Muslims had taken over his neighbourhood.

“In his mind we, as Muslims, were a real and active threat and he was acting on this threat,” she told the ABC.

In the same week as the racist attack, the 33-year-old had moved to a new neighbourhood in Victoria and decided to start wearing…