WATCH: Mum told she 'should be in prison' by a Muslim man for putting her feet up on train

From the Express:

Ruby Butler had her feet up on the carriage chair while travelling on the London Overground when the furious man began to threaten her. 

The stunned 27-year-old - who said she would have moved her feet for the man if he had asked her nicely - began to film the incident after he told her she should be killed. 

Ms Butler said she was wearing a new pair of Converse shoes which were giving her blisters so she decided to put her feet up to make them more comfortable when the man approached her. 

She said: "The train was quite empty, there were over 50 chairs I could see that were empty but this gentleman with a beard walks along and says 'move your feet from the chair'." 

The bemused mother asked the man if he worked for the train company and he allegedly told her he did. In return she asked to see some ID but the man reportedly told her he was off duty. 

Ms Butler - who was travelling from Wanstead to Acton North last Thursday - told him to "come back to me when you're in uniform". 

She said: "I was refusing to move them because of the way he spoke to me. If he asked me politely I would have done it. 

"He told me that I deserve to be killed and then as soon as I heard that I started recording. "I asked him politely to go away three times and he wouldn't go away." 

The mother-of-two posted the video on her Facebook page, which has been viewed over 500,000 times. 

The man is shown standing over Ms Butler before he says: "I cannot sit there and I cannot pray with my clothes okay? And I travel every day." 

Another man then tries to calm the scenario by telling him "she is not worth arguing with". 

Ms Butler replied: "It's really not. I am tired. It's been a long day." 

He then said: "You should be in prison." 

The mother-of-two posted the video on her Facebook page, which has been viewed over 500,000 times. 

The man is shown standing over Ms Butler before he says: "I cannot sit there and I cannot pray with my clothes okay? And I travel every day." 

Another man then tries to calm the scenario by telling him "she is not worth arguing with". 

Ms Butler replied: "It's really not. I am tired. It's been a long day." 

He then said: "You should be in prison." The elderly man is eventually escorted off the train by another passenger after the man said he was going to call the police. 

Ms Butler said: "This is all because I have my feet on the seat. Please get the police. If they can arrest me for putting my feet on the chair then I will gladly be arrested." 

"But I don't have the same religion as you, Sir. I pray with my shoes on. "Every day I with my shoes on. I am Christian." 

The man shouted: "I am a Muslim and I cannot." She replied: "This is not a Muslim country." Ms Butler believes the elderly man was upset because her shoes were dirty, meaning a Muslim person cannot pray on the seat where her feet had been resting. She also said he may have grown more upset with her because she is a woman and she "spoke back" to him. 

She said: "If it was a Muslim lady she might have done what she was told but I am from a Christian community and we don't believe in being spoken down to by men." 

The man is yet to be traced by British Transport Police who have contacted Ms Butler over the incident. 

A spokesman for the company said: "We are currently investigating and anyone information is asked to contact British Transport Police."