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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 21:21:51 -0400
Begin forwarded message: From: Yale Patt <patt () sunfire2 ece utexas edu> Date: July 28, 2005 12:30:37 PM EDT To: dave () farber net 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 From i-p-errors () umich edu Thu Jul 28 10:08:19 2005 Envelope-to: patt () ece utexas edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:04:18 -0400 To: i-p () umich edu From: David Farber <dave () farber net> (by way of Bernard A. Galler) Subject: [IP] Apology to Sikh tourists X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Begin forwarded message: From: Sashikumar N <sashikumar.n () gmail com> Date: July 27, 2005 10:46:17 PM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Apology to Sikh tourists Reply-To: Sashikumar N <sashikumar.n () gmail com> Apology to Sikh tourists NEW YORK: NewYork's Mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has apologised to agroup 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 onSunday 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 60passengers 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.htmnote: A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a religious faith originating
in the Punjab, India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SikhsHundreds of thousands of Sikh-Americans live in the United States and
enjoy respect and religious tolerance. At the same time, manyAmericans 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, andviolence, including two murders. The attackers mistook the Sikhs for
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