CALIFORNIA – A California woman who is being treated for lupus was robbed and mistaken for a Muslim woman because of her headscarf.

Nicki Pancholy, a non-Muslim who lost her hair from treatments for the chronic autoimmune, returned to her car after a hike and found her car window smashed with a note left on it.

 “Hijab wearing b—h,” the note on her dashboard said. “This is our nation now get the f— out.”

Her purse was also missing when she returned from hiking at Fremont’s Mission Peak on Monday.

“I believe that they’re being controlled by fear,” Pancholy, 41, told the TV station. “I believe that fear has consumed them.”

Pancholy visited the mountain in the East Bay hills 65 days in a row in what she called a “peace hike” against the tension of this year’s presidential election. 

Police were investigating the robbery as a hate crime because of the note, Fremont police spokeswoman Geneva Bosques told SF Gate.

Pancholy, 41, said she hikes Mission Peak in Fremont, Calif., every day wearing a headscarf after she lost her hair during treatments for her lupus.

“We are obviously very upset and saddened that this happened in our community,” Bosques said. “It’s very disturbing.”

Fremont Planning Commissioner Raj Salwan posted a picture of the note Tuesday on Facebook. Users had shared the post, which mentioned the nationwide jump in hateful intimidation and harassment since last week’s election, over 1,200 times by Thursday night.