(April 5,2006)—The FBI is working with the Baylor University Department of Public Safety to investigate an attack on a female Muslim student on the campus, Baylor Police Chief Jim Doak announced Wednesday evening.

“We have had an FBI representative on campus with us throughout the day today and will continue to work with the agency as this process goes forward,” Doak said.

The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic relations called on the FBI Tuesday to probe the attack on the coed as a hate crime.

The woman was grabbed from behind Saturday evening as she walked to her dorm from the Student Union Building.

The student told News Ten that her attacker was a white male who appeared to be in his 30s. She said she didn’t think the man was a Baylor student.

She said the man grabbed her headscarf and threw her to the ground, yelling profane ethnic and anti-Muslim slurs while threatening to kill her if she made any noise.

The man pinned her to the ground, she said, and dug his nails into her chest until she screamed.

When she screamed, she said the man slapped her in the face and kicked her twice in the ribs before he fled.

She required emergency room treatment for a dislocated shoulder and contusions.

She has left Baylor to return to her family’s home in a neighboring state to recuperate, the organization said.

She told News Ten she’s not sure whether she will return to Baylor.