[IP] more on Apology to Sikh tourists
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From: Yale Patt <patt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: July 28, 2005 12:30:37 PM EDT
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Subject: Re: [IP] Apology to Sikh tourists
What is also disgusting about this item is the implication that somehow
if they had been "practitioners of Islam," it would have made their
treatment more reasonable.
Yale
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Date: July 27, 2005 10:46:17 PM EDT
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Subject: Apology to Sikh tourists
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Apology to Sikh tourists
NEW YORK: NewYork's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has apologised to a
group of British tourists after armed police swarmed on to an
open-top
sightseeing bus, handcuffed them and forced them to kneel on
Broadway.
The five Sikh tourists from Birmingham were ordered off the bus on
Sunday with their hands bound behind their backs after a tour
company
employee called police to report that they seemed suspicious. The
police cordoned off the block for 90 minutes, ordered all 60
passengers off the bus, and searched their belongings and then
their
bodies. The five men were then identified by the employee and
cuffed.
Mr. Bloomberg advised New Yorkers to use common sense when
reporting
anything suspect and to avoid profiling people. ``It turned out
that
these people did not present any threat whatsoever,'' he said.
- Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
http://www.hindu.com/2005/07/28/stories/2005072801901400.htm
note: A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith
originating
in the Punjab, India
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikhs
Hundreds of thousands of Sikh-Americans live in the United
States and
enjoy respect and religious tolerance. At the same time, many
Americans are relatively unaware of the Sikh population in the
United
States and often mistake Sikhs for practitioners of Islam.
Following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack, the Sikh
community
received nearly 300 reported incidents of threats, vandalism, and
violence, including two murders. The attackers mistook the Sikhs
for
followers of Islam.
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