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Shocking video shows the moment five Muslim girls were targeted for their religion as they were eating at a suburban Chicago restaurant.
The incident happened Monday night at the Pepe's Mexican restaurant in Hickory Hills, Illinois.
The five teens - four of whom were wearing hijabs - had just finished breaking their Ramadan fast and were leaving the restaurant when they walked by an older couple.
The man then appeared to insult one of the girls for her weight and religion.
'We were walking past him on our way out of the restaurant. He yelled, "That girl could break a camel's back."' 17-year-old Sawim Osman told Yahoo.
Startled, the group stopped and one of the girls, Mai Ahmad, took out her phone to record the altercation.
Nour Jaghama, 16, asked the man to repeat himself and he responded: 'You can go and beat it. If you don't like this country, leave.'
'It's our home too. What do you mean leave?' one of the girls could be heard saying.
'I just said she's a big one. What's the problem? Yeah, anything else?' the man says.
That's when another friend calls the man 'disgusting,' prompting him to jump out of his seat.
The girls then fled the restaurant, afraid that he may actually physically assault them.
The clip ends with the man cussing the girls as they leave.
'F****** goddamn, camel-jacking motherf****** c****!' he said.
Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar and is observed by Muslims worldwide as a month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad according to Islamic belief.
The common practice during Ramadan is fasting from dawn to sunset. The pre-dawn meal before the fast is called the suhur, while the meal at sunset that breaks the fast is the iftar.
The girls have since shared the video with the Hickory Hills police, who have yet to identify the man.
A manager of the restaurant told CBS Chicago that the staff were unaware of the incident, and if they had known, they would have called police.
The girls were still upset about the incident when they gave an interview to the news station on Tuesday.
'We didn’t say anything to him. We were completely calm, just walking past him. He’s the one who instigated the whole incident,' Osman said.
Osman's mother, Catherine Bronson, and stepfather, Sean Anthony, are both professors of Islamic Studies, her mother at Notre Dame and her stepfather at Ohio State.
Both were taken aback by the incident.
'We live in a very charged climate. I think the furor at the presidential level has sort of exacerbated this feeling and given a platform for those who might not have spoken out so aggressively,' Bronson told Yahoo.
All of the girls involved in the incident are from Chicago.
'Just because we have the headscarf on doesn’t mean we’re not from here,' Osman said.