MARYLAND – A 14-year-old girl has admitted that she wrote a threatening note to her new refugee neighbors in Maryland.

The family recently escaped Iraq and settled in Maryland. But they were quickly unsettled when they found an anonymous threatening note on their front steps. 

Part of the note read, “Terrorist, Leave no one wants you here. Your kind is a disgrace. 9/11 was your fault.”

The note also had a drawing of a person who was wearing a hijab and holding a cartoon bomb, according to police.

Leaders of the nation’s largest Muslim civil liberties group expressed concern over the note

“It is disturbing that a family, having fled violence and hatred, is now being targeted by hate as they seek to build a better life in America,” said CAIR Maryland outreach manager Dr. Zainab Chaudry in a statement. “We urge local, state and federal authorities to take this matter seriously and to bring the perpetrator to justice.”

Baltimore County Police were notified about the note on Oct. 14 by a member of the family. Officers said a 14-year-old girl wrote the note, and concluded that — while offensive — no crime was committed.

Officers spoke with the girl, who said she wrote the note because two of the children in the family had “cursed at her and made offensive gestures,” police said.

Police said officers with the Dundalk Precinct Community Outreach Unit have followed up with the family and will check on the two families next week.

They said the girl’s parents told police that they would discipline her.