Rant on about Sikh victims of violence.

[Recursion]

Please just move along; this is my scream of ARRRRGH.

First off:

If you see a man in a turban, he is probably not Muslim, and he is definitely not Arabic. He might be a Persian Shi'ite.

But more likely he is a Sikh.

Sikhs have been the victims of tons and tons of horrible racist violence since 9/11, because they "look Muslim" or whatever.

Fine.

I had a whole post prepared explaining the difference between Muslims and Sikhs (I live in India; confusing the two here would be laughable). And then I just couldn't post it. I couldn't post it because you don't need a history lesson to tell you not to attack unarmed people.

Oh, but it gets worse, or better. I like to think it's better.

Observant sikhs always carry a dagger with them. They even have an exemption from TSA to do that on airplanes.

That's what I would like people to think about. Yet another Sikh man was assaulted today. Like all of the other Sikh victims of American violence, they did not pull their weapons. They are obliged by their religion to carry a dagger, and they did not pull it. They took some jackass beating them, and refused to escalate.

We should all be that pious.

[Coventina]

1. Rant on, brother.

"I couldn't post it because you don't need a history lesson to tell you not to attack unarmed people."

America: Attacking the wrong people for the wrong reasons since WWII.......

[Iggo]

2. The one thing I think when I hear of these attacks: Like it would be okay if he was Muslim.

[Recursion]

3. Right?

That's what kills me.

[Bluenorthwest]

4. Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

nt

[progressoid]

7. Which has become, "do unto others what you think they will do unto you"

[JCMach1]

5. Some Gulf Arab Wahhabis do wear Turbans ,

but I don't expect the people who do this kind of thing to understand any sort of cultural subtlety.

[onecent]

6. These knives, according to several posts on line, are definitely not allowed on board an

aircraft. Don't know where you are getting that information.

[Donald Ian Rankin]

8. Would the average kirpan be any use for self-defence?

Aren't they a) usually very short, and often blunt, and b) in at least New York, legally required to be glued into their sheaths?

Also, although I can't now find a source for it, I had a vague idea that formally the kirpan was meant to be referred to as a sword rather than a knife? Or am I just making that up?