New York Daily News

Guilty of hijab hate

- Christina Carrega

A BROOKLYN WOMAN will spend six months on Rikers Island for attacking two Muslim women, authoritie­s said.

Emirjeta Xhelili, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday to assault as a hate crime for trying to rip hijabs — traditiona­l head coverings — off two women walking with their children in Bath Beach.

Xhelili screeched “Get the f--- out of America, b-----s,” and “This is America, you shouldn’t be different from us,” during the September 2016 attack.

Albert Fox Cahn, legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, thanked the Brooklyn district attorney’s office for its “swift” conclusion to this case.

“It is intolerabl­e to think that these young mothers and their children were targeted in broad daylight, on a street in Brooklyn, for doing nothing more than practicing their faith,” Cahn said.

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