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MUSLIM STUDENT BELIEVES ATTACKER CAME FROM OFF CAMPUS - TOP Tim Woods and Terri Jo Ryan, Waco Tribune, 4/5/06http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/04/05/04052006wacmuslim.html A Muslim woman who said she was assaulted on the Baylor University campus Saturday night said Tuesday that she doesn't believe her attacker is a Baylor student.Nohayia Javed, a 19-year-old senior who has been at Baylor since 2003, said she was attacked near the Draper Academic Building about 8:45 p.m. by a clean-shaven white man in his 30s, weighing about 200 pounds, with buzz-cut blondish-brown hair. She said he was wearing jeans and steel-toed cowboy boots.The incident, which wasn't reported immediately, has sparked the condemnation of the Washington, D.C.-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a Muslim civil rights organization. The group's communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, said law enforcement officials, including the FBI, should investigate the attack as a hate crime.Javed, a Chicago native of South Asian heritage, said that as she was walking Saturday night from the Student Union Building to her dorm room in Dawson Residence Hall, a man grabbed her hijab - a Muslim head scarf - and pulled her to the ground while making anti-Muslim and ethnic slurs "in a really Southern, very pronounced, noticeable accent."She said the man told her to keep quiet or he would kill her. She added that the quickness and ferocity of the attack shocked her into silence."But when he dug his nails into my chest, reflexively I screamed," Javed said. "And once I started screaming, I could not stop."She said her attacker responded to her screams by slapping her and kicking her multiple times in the ribs before running away."I could tell that he wasn't familiar with campus because he didn't seem to know where to run," she said. "He ran in a kind of circle before he found his way out."Baylor's interim vice president for student life, Dub Oliver, said Baylor's Department of Public Safety was notified of the reported assault at about 5 p.m. Sunday. He said "the university is treating this incident very seriously and is in the process of investigating the matter in cooperation with law enforcement agencies."CAIR spokeswoman Rabiah Ahmed said the group's legal affairs office contacted the FBI and asked them to investigate the matter as a hate crime. The FBI's Web site states that to qualify as a hate crime, "the offender's criminal act must have been motivated, in whole or in part, by his/her bias." (MORE)

MUSLIM STUDENT REPORTS ATTACK ON BAYLOR CAMPUS - TOP Associated Press, 4/5/06http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4726996&nav=1TjDWACO, Texas Baylor University police are investigating a report by a Muslim student who says she was attacked on campus.The Council on American-Islamic Relations has asked the F-B-I to investigate the attack as a hate crime.The student says was walking alone Saturday night when a white man grabbed her head scarf. He threw her on the ground and yelled ethnic slurs at her.The man slapped her face, kicked her ribs and threatened to kill her if she made noise.The student reported she screamed and he ran away. She was able to drive to the emergency room and was treated for a dislocated shoulder and other injuries.Baylor is the world's largest Baptist university.In a statement today, Baylor officials said the university is "treating the reported incident very seriously."