It’s amazing how similar these words are: Tourist:Terrorist
‘Sikh and ye shall find’?
Every day is Take Your Turban to Work Day.
I feel the same way whenever I see a white guy walk into a church or a school.
Is the bridge nearby part of your facility?
If they are large enough to set off the metal detector or body scanner, they are asked to, or they have to subject to being frisked.
We sure do in the Sacramento area. There ae a lot of Sikhs here. A Sikh ran for District Attorney in a local county in the last elections.
No, it’a a public bridge/fishing spot.
:eek: Dude!! You just blew my mind!
Don’t be so sure. According to scholar Diana Eck, there are now more Sikhs in this country than Episcopalians.
(I might be misremembering that, but if it’s not more Sikhs then it’s more Muslims.)
Or a theatre, or drive a van up to a government building. I’ve seen them living homeless on the street, looking for handouts as if they expect me to support their lazy asses. We oughta send them whites back to Europe where they came from.
For educational purposes only, of course, maybe you could show your co-worker this picture and ask her what she thinks of it, what does she think he’s doing, etc. Let her know that he’s in the country right across the border from her!
I’d like to see her reaction when you inform her that he’s the Canadian Minister of Defence.
To be fair, if an actual terrorist knew that all he had to do to get past security is pretend he’s a Sikh because it’s rude for us to ask them to remove their turbans, wouldn’t it be a no-brainer for the terrorist to just wear a turban?
Definitely not Sikhs.
We don’t seem to be reading the same Wiki article. The one I’m reading has several paragraphs on US legal cases (including a back-and-forth in the US Armed Forces about whether wearing a yarmulke indoors breaks the “no hats indoors except for MPs” rule) and one on the French penchant for banning the wearing of religious symbols by public officers and in public schools. No mention of making someone remove a yarmulke because omgscary.
[CAFE SOCIETY SEMI HIJACK]If anyone would like to take their knowledge/comfort level with Sikhs to the next level in a painless, middle-brow way, may I recommend the books of A. X. Ahmad? His main character, Ranjit Singh, is a Sikh in America. The novels fall somewhere in the mystery/suspense category and have no pretensions to being timeless literature. But the ones I have read (The Caretaker and The Last Taxi Ride) are well written and absorbing, and feature a complex human being, who not incidentally happens to be a Sikh.[/CAFE SOCIETY SEMI HIJACK]
I don’t think she has a problem with Muslims per se. But seeing a guy wearing a turban, sitting in a shelter on the fishing bridge for a couple of hours not doing anything, next to a port that has seen several protests recently gave her pause. Would she have been suspicious if one of the people from the homeless camps did the same thing? I’m not going to speculate. But the turban set her off, even after I told her the guy was Indian.
In other news, an Oregon man assaulted a Buddhist monk, thinking the Monk was a Muslim.
Okay. It also just occurred to me that I see lots of Muslims here these days, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a male wearing a turban. The only Muslims I see wearing their traditional dress are the women. A male Muslim with a turban would really stand out as different.
I don’t know how close you are to this co-worker or what your work environment is like, Johnny LA, but can you tell her what she did was incredibly racist and not to do it again?