Palmerston North taxi driver Saad Hishma has been left shaken after a man racially abused him. A Palmerston North Muslim man doesn't feel safe on the city's streets after being abused and called a terrorist. Saad Hishma, a 56-year-old taxi driver, was taking a prayer break on Sunday morning in a car park on the corner of Albert and Church streets when a man approached his taxi van. The family came to New Zealand in 2009, living in Auckland for seven years, before moving to Palmerston North. He was working at a Palmerston North dairy, the Trenton Minimart, when it was robbed at knifepoint two years ago and he said both events scared him.

Source: Stuff March 18, 2019 04:31 UTC