United States - Sikhs feel they are victims of mistaken identity
Sikhs in US feel they are victims of mistaken identity
Sikhs have been mistaken for terrorists and radicals and continue to suffer after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, community members feel following the latest attack on an elderly Sikh man in California which is being probed by police as a hate crime.
There are many Spate of Hate Crimes in US from last many years. Some are as follows:
August 2012: A gunman shot dead six Sikhs in Wisconsin Gurdwara
May 2013: 82 year old Piara Singh attacked outside Gurdwara Nanaksar in south Frenso
August 2014: 29 year old Sandeep Singh attached in New York
September 2015: Inderjit Singh Mukker assaulted in suburb outside Chicago after being called 'Bin Laden'
December 2015 : Amrik Singh Bal attacked in California
There's nothing new about Sikhs being the targets of violence and intimidation in the United States. Followers of the monotheistic faith, which originated in South Asia in the 15th century, have been on the receiving end of xenophobic intolerance since they began arriving in the Pacific Northwest to fill logging jobs in the early 20th century," according to Simran Jeet Singh, a senior religion fellow at the Sikh Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group.
Sikhs have been mistaken for terrorists and radicals and continue to suffer after the 9/11 terror attacks in the US, community members feel following the latest attack on an elderly Sikh man in California which is being probed by police as a hate crime.
There are many Spate of Hate Crimes in US from last many years. Some are as follows:
August 2012: A gunman shot dead six Sikhs in Wisconsin Gurdwara
May 2013: 82 year old Piara Singh attacked outside Gurdwara Nanaksar in south Frenso
August 2014: 29 year old Sandeep Singh attached in New York
September 2015: Inderjit Singh Mukker assaulted in suburb outside Chicago after being called 'Bin Laden'
December 2015 : Amrik Singh Bal attacked in California
There's nothing new about Sikhs being the targets of violence and intimidation in the United States. Followers of the monotheistic faith, which originated in South Asia in the 15th century, have been on the receiving end of xenophobic intolerance since they began arriving in the Pacific Northwest to fill logging jobs in the early 20th century," according to Simran Jeet Singh, a senior religion fellow at the Sikh Coalition, a nonprofit advocacy group.
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