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ANN ARBOR, Mich. (WXYZ) - A 21-year-old Muslim woman who does not want to be identified tells Action News a man pulled a gun on her and used hateful slurs against her during a ride home from work.The woman, who wears a traditional Islamic headscarf, said she was stopped at the intersection of S. State Street and Eisenhower Sunday morning when a man started honking his car horn at her.“I’m at the light and it’s red and the guy behind me is just honking. And I was like it’s a red light.”From there the situation escalated.“He pulled up next to me, called me a terrorist, said I don’t belong here. He said I need to go back to my own country, that my people need to die,” the young woman told Action News. “He started swerving into my lane. I called police and when he saw me on the phone he pulled a gun out and the gun was pointed directly at me.”The apparent victim got away uninjured. During the incident she was able to get a plate number to police, but Ann Arbor investigators say they haven’t been able to track it down. It’s possible that during the tense situation the victim made a mistake or police took down the wrong information.The horrific reality of the ordeal has barely set in.“I think at first it didn’t hit me. But now reality has set in – it has hit me, my life flashed before my eyes and I didn’t realize it.”The victim describes the suspect as a white male with blonde hair and stubble. He was driving a black pick-up, possibly a Dodge Ram.The Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on the F.B.I. to join the investigation.Read more: http://www.wxyz.com/dpp/news/region/washtenaw_county/21-year-old-muslim-woman-says-she-was-the-victim-of-a-hate-crime-in-ann-arbor#ixzz1Vq2d4q4L