Fear and bigotry …. about anything “different”. This is just one of the many things that is wrong with America!
Ever since an unprecedented wave of Islamophobia swept across the nation in the aftermath of 9/11 (and never truly subsided), the American Sikh Community has often found itself the target of all sorts of people who want to express their hatred of Islam through acts of violence and terror. It’s a prime example of the ways in which hatred of Muslims has morphed over the years from a prejudice or hatred of a entire religious community into a form of ethnic hatred against anyone perceived as being of South Asian origin, most notably members of the Sikh religious community. Bigots, be they white supremacists, demagogues of the evangelical Christian Right, or so-called New Atheists, are so consumed with hatred for the “other” that they can’t even distinguish between those they profess to hate and those whom they think “look like” the people they hate. And in the U.S., where being…
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