Harvard Muslim Student Reports Verbal Attack

November 28, 2005

Source: The Harvard Crimson

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=510136

On November 28, 2005 The Harvard Crimson reported, "A Harvard senior filed a report with the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) last week that said she was the victim of a racially motivated verbal attack. The report said the attack was directed at her because of her Muslim background, and the incident has sparked concern among Muslim students and other student organizations on campus. Huma Farid ’06 said that as she was walking on Quincy Street past Lamont Library at around 6 p.m. last Monday, she was speaking with her father on her cell phone when she heard screaming from a group of women across the street. 'As I got towards them, it got louder and louder, and I could hear the words—they were screaming "filthy Jew-hater,"' she said. 'I kept walking, and this one woman kept repeating the words over and over again. I turned around, and this woman—in her 40’s, middle aged, white—was chasing me.' Farid—who wrote in an e-mail that she believes she was targeted because she 'wears Hijab and thus looks obviously Muslim'—said that she ran across the street, where she bumped into friends who escorted her back to her room in Eliot House."