Monday, September 23, 2013
Another arab who isn't is attacked by ignorant fuck-all asswpies.
Last week we had the disgusting spectacle of an American citizen of Indian heritage being attacked in social media as an Arab by a bunch of fuck-all ignorant asswipes. And now we have an incident of a Sikh professor, also from India, being physically attacked by a bunch of fuck-all ignorant asswipes who thought he was an Arab.
Prabhjot Singh, an assistant professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia who recently wrote about hate crimes in the New York Times, was attacked by a group of teens shouting anti-Muslim sentiments over the weekend. Singh — who is a Sikh, not a Muslim — told NBC 4 that “I heard ‘Get Osama’ and then ‘terrorists,’ and then the next thing I felt was someone moving past me, ripping at my beard and then hitting me in the chin.”God damn Republicans have ruined this country.
He tried to escape his attackers, but they surrounded him and forced him to the ground, where they continued to kick and punch him.
He was taken to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where surgery was performed on his fractured jaw.
“There’s no doubt in my mind it was a bias-related event,” he told NBC 4.
Amardeep Singh, no relation, a professor of English at Lehigh University, talked to Raw Story about the precarious position of Sikhs in American culture. He also spoke about the problem with most reporting on stories like this one, which often implicitly take the position that the attack would have been justified had the target actually been Muslim.
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As time goes by Mont it seems you are becoming much less tolerant and more pissed off at times. The sonsofbitches have ruined things and no matter what the optimists say it ain't coming back. I'm soooo tired of it all!
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