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Uber passenger allegedly pulled a gun on Sikh driver: I hate turban people
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2018/02/15/uber-passenger-allegedly-pulled-a-gun-on-sikh-driver-i-hate-turban-people/?utm_term=.d73e8291f95cA sheriff’s office in Illinois is investigating an assault on an Uber driver that appears to have been based on the driver’s ethnicity or religion.
The driver, Gurjeet Singh, is a religious leader at a local Sikh temple and wears the traditional turban and long beard of men in the Sikh faith, a monotheistic religion from India.
Sikh men in America, repeatedly mistaken for Muslims because of their appearance, have been the victims of numerous hate crimes — including a man murdered immediately after 9/11 by an assailant who said he thought his victim was Arab, and six members of a Sikh temple in Wisconsin killed in a mass shooting.
In this case, the advocacy organization Sikh Coalition says that the passenger pulled a gun on the driver and said, “I hate turban people. I hate beard people.”
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