{UAH} I didn't know speaking swahili was a crime. My bad only..next Chinese inshallah.

I hope she gets charged with a hate crime but that depends on the District Attorney and whether the office is progressive or biased against Muslims.

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Minnesota woman smashes Muslim in face with beer mug for speaking Swahili at Applebee's

Travis Gettys
06 Nov 2015 at 12:54 ET                   

Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch

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A Minnesota woman is accused of attacking a Muslim woman who was speaking Swahili at an Applebee's restaurant.

Jodie Marie Burchard-Risch was eating Oct. 30 with her husband when she became enraged by the woman speaking a foreign language in a nearby booth, reported KARE-TV.

The 43-year-old Burchard-Risch yelled at the woman and threw a drink at her, and she brushed off managers' attempts to calm her down.

"I was sitting turned around like this and all of a sudden I feel something thrown on my face — boom," said the victim, Asma Jama. "My cousin started screaming and everyone wanted to run away."

Jama told her assailant that she had a free speech right to converse with her family in Swahili.

Then Burchard-Risch "smashed" her beer mug across the woman's face in a "roundhouse punch" motion before running away, police said.

One of the restaurant managers followed Burchard-Risch outside the restaurant in Coon Rapids until police arrived and arrested her.

Jama suffered deep cuts across her nose, eyebrow and lower lip.

"Emotionally that has destroyed me," Jama said. "I've lived in Minnesota for 15 years, never had anyone even look at me weird for not speaking English and wearing a Hijab. I've seen hate crimes on TV, but for it to happen to me — I'm really a different person, I don't like it."

Burchard-Risch was charged with third-degree assault.

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