megasloth: becoming-wave: cresscross: “Everyone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,” said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. “People think we are Muslims.” Though violence against Sikhs in Wisconsin was unheard of before the shooting, many in this community said they had sensed a rise in antipathy since the attacks on Sept. 11 and suspected it was because people mistake them for Muslims. Followers of Sikhism, or Gurmat, a monotheistic faith founded in the 15th century in South Asia, typically do not cut their hair, and men often wear colorful turbans and refrain from cutting their beards. “Most people are so ignorant they don’t know the difference between religions,” said Ravi Chawla, 65, a businesswoman who moved to the region from Pakistan in the 1970s. “Just because they see the turban they think you’re Taliban.” the ignorance that is fueled by patriotism is not just gross beyond words but clearly very dangerous and that has it’s place in the conversations that’ll come out of this senseless act of terrorism but Heems is right, “we’re not muslim, but what if we were?”  not to condone that position but it’s just all so fucking telling… Not that it would in any way be less tragic if they shot up a Mosque, because no, this is just unspeakably horrific in either case, but the sheer stupidity involved in not even knowing how to identify the group you hate with that level of focused, impassioned intensity is just… what do you even say? This is another incredibly tragic and stupid act, to be sure. But since the killer was a white supremacist, then I think his targets were, sadly, ultimately, his targets anyway. Focusing on his “mistake” (which in and of itself seems kind of gross to me: “that dummy can’t even kill the right people!”) misses the more inclusive reach of his discrimination. Unfortunately, muslim deaths or not, the white supremacist movement has, I’m sure, a new “martyr”. And that’s not only stupid, it’s dIsgusting.  Heems nails it. megasloth: becoming-wave: cresscross: “Everyone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,” said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. “People think we are Muslims.” Though violence against Sikhs in Wisconsin was unheard of before the shooting, many in this community said they had sensed a rise in antipathy since the attacks on Sept. 11 and suspected it was because people mistake them for Muslims. Followers of Sikhism, or Gurmat, a monotheistic faith founded in the 15th century in South Asia, typically do not cut their hair, and men often wear colorful turbans and refrain from cutting their beards. “Most people are so ignorant they don’t know the difference between religions,” said Ravi Chawla, 65, a businesswoman who moved to the region from Pakistan in the 1970s. “Just because they see the turban they think you’re Taliban.” the ignorance that is fueled by patriotism is not just gross beyond words but clearly very dangerous and that has it’s place in the conversations that’ll come out of this senseless act of terrorism but Heems is right, “we’re not muslim, but what if we were?”  not to condone that position but it’s just all so fucking telling… Not that it would in any way be less tragic if they shot up a Mosque, because no, this is just unspeakably horrific in either case, but the sheer stupidity involved in not even knowing how to identify the group you hate with that level of focused, impassioned intensity is just… what do you even say? This is another incredibly tragic and stupid act, to be sure. But since the killer was a white supremacist, then I think his targets were, sadly, ultimately, his targets anyway. Focusing on his “mistake” (which in and of itself seems kind of gross to me: “that dummy can’t even kill the right people!”) misses the more inclusive reach of his discrimination. Unfortunately, muslim deaths or not, the white supremacist movement has, I’m sure, a new “martyr”. And that’s not only stupid, it’s dIsgusting.  Heems nails it.

megasloth:

becoming-wave:

cresscross:

“Everyone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,” said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. “People think we are Muslims.”

Though violence against Sikhs in Wisconsin was unheard of before the shooting, many in this community said they had sensed a rise in antipathy since the attacks on Sept. 11 and suspected it was because people mistake them for Muslims. Followers of Sikhism, or Gurmat, a monotheistic faith founded in the 15th century in South Asia, typically do not cut their hair, and men often wear colorful turbans and refrain from cutting their beards.

“Most people are so ignorant they don’t know the difference between religions,” said Ravi Chawla, 65, a businesswoman who moved to the region from Pakistan in the 1970s. “Just because they see the turban they think you’re Taliban.”

the ignorance that is fueled by patriotism is not just gross beyond words but clearly very dangerous and that has it’s place in the conversations that’ll come out of this senseless act of terrorism but Heems is right, “we’re not muslim, but what if we were?”  not to condone that position but it’s just all so fucking telling…

Not that it would in any way be less tragic if they shot up a Mosque, because no, this is just unspeakably horrific in either case, but the sheer stupidity involved in not even knowing how to identify the group you hate with that level of focused, impassioned intensity is just… what do you even say?

This is another incredibly tragic and stupid act, to be sure. But since the killer was a white supremacist, then I think his targets were, sadly, ultimately, his targets anyway. Focusing on his “mistake” (which in and of itself seems kind of gross to me: “that dummy can’t even kill the right people!”) misses the more inclusive reach of his discrimination. Unfortunately, muslim deaths or not, the white supremacist movement has, I’m sure, a new “martyr”. And that’s not only stupid, it’s dIsgusting. 

Heems nails it.

Aug. 8 2012
Via The New York Times
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