Police are reviewing security camera footage near a Toronto elementary school after a woman wearing a hijab was allegedly attacked and robbed in what police are calling a possible hate crime.

At around 3 p.m., investigators say a woman was walking to Grenoble Public School in Flemingdon Park to pick up her son when she passed two unknown men who were walking in the opposite direction.

Police say upon seeing the woman, the men turned around and began hurling racial slurs at her.

The woman, police say, did not engage the men and continued to walk forward but one of the suspects pulled on her hijab and began assaulting her.

According to investigators, the woman dropped to the ground to protect her face and the men proceeded to punch and kick her while she was down.

The suspects, police allege, stole her cell phone and money before fleeing the scene.

The woman ran toward the school and a staff member flagged down Toronto police officers, who routinely canvass the area.

The woman's physical injuries were relatively minor, police confirm.

Investigators say they are continuing to investigate and are checking security cameras in the area in an effort to identify the perpetrators of the violent robbery.

In a statement emailed to CP24 Tuesday morning, Toronto District School Board spokesperson Ryan Bird said anyone with information about the assault is encouraged to call police.

"The school will be sending home a letter to parents today so that they are aware of the incident that happened off school property yesterday afternoon," he added.

A young Muslim woman who was dropping her child off at Grenoble Public School this morning says ignorance is to blame for attacks like this.

"Maybe educating people to an extent in the best thing to do otherwise it is vicious. It will keep on going," she said.

"So as a community we have to get together and do something about it in a positive way.”

A family friend of the victim told CP24 at the scene that while he is concerned, he is confident police will get to the bottom of it.

"I’m confident that the authorities will find these people and I know this area very well, I’ve been living here for about six, seven years now, and I’m confident this was an isolated incident," he added.

Speaking with reporters Tuesday, Mayor John Tory condemned the violent incident.

“I know that I speak for all Torontonians when I say that this is a random act, an unacceptable act. It involves stereotyping people who are not responsible for acts that are going on overseas at all,” Tory said.

He said those who attacked Paris sought to destroy our way of life and that can’t be allowed to happen.

“Here in Toronto we embrace each other, we understand each other, we reach out to each other and we don’t commit these kinds of acts,” Tory said. “I trust this will be an isolated act that will not be repeated because it’s just not consistent with our way of life.”

Premier Kathleen Wynne also condemned the incident. Speaking at Queen's Park Tuesday morning, she said that communities across the province and country need to be vigilant in making sure that the attacks in Paris don't "trigger hatred and racism" here at home.

"I think that this is actually a time we need to reach out to our Muslim neighbours and friends and recognize that acts that took place in Paris were acts of terrorism and not borne of religion but of some other genesis, some other hateful motivation," Wynne said.

In a release issued Monday, Muslim group Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama said it was disturbed by the incident, as well as a deliberate fire set over the weekend at a Peterborough mosque.

“On the heels of the mosque arson, the community is appalled to learn about the malicious attack on a Canadian Muslim mother in Toronto,” the group said in its statement. “This hate crime has alarmed the community as the brazen assault occurred during broad daylight near her children’s school.”

The group said the crimes were inconsistent with Canadian values and urged people of all creeds to respond with prayers alone.