Sikh track worker Jasmir Singh faces severe racial attack

Sorry to bring a sad note into this happy day, but we can't ignore another vicious attack upon a brother. Welcome to Post-Racist Amerika, er, I mean America. Is it really a new day? Maybe. This has a date of 20 December 2008, although it was in today's WSN. Please read on.

From World Sikh News:

RICHMOND HILL: As millions across the US await the much-hyped and most-expensive oath taking ceremony of president-elect Barack Obama, 21 year old Jasmir Singh, a Sikh track worker has been dubbed "Osama" and has been attacked a third time, this time more viciously than the previous two occasions. He may lose vision in the left eye, which has been stabbed badly, while his hair and beard were also pulled.

Sending shockwaves to the hundreds of Sikhs who live in this area, Jasmir Singh said that it was a racial attack and that his friend who was not a Sikh, was left unharmed.

Recovering at the Elmhurst Hospital Center with a score of stitches on his left eye, Jasmir Singh, who was attacked near a grocery store at Jackson Heights said that he was taunted and abused.

According to last reports, two of the suspected attackers have been detained and the police is on the lookout for a third one.

Jasmir's father, Jiwan Singh summed it all, "We voted for Obama, but we are being dubbed Osama. Surely, we did not expect this."

20 December 2008

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