A young Sikh professor by the name Dr. Prabhjot Singh has
been attacked at the Colombia University in the US. He was attacked by a group
of young men who reportedly call him “Osama” and “Terrorist”. The police are
investigating the attack as a hate crime.
It is reported that Dr. Prabhjot Singh always wear a turban
and has a beard, a symbol most people only know with Muslims. He was reportedly
attacked while walking along an avenue in upper Manhattan.
“ An unknown suspect
or suspects shouted anti-Muslim statements, knocked the professor down and
punched him numerous times in the face” according to a huffingtonpost report.
A friend of the attacked professor,
Simran Jeet Singh, who is a doctoral candidate in religion at the same
University, said in an online post, "Hate Hits Home: When My Friend Became
A Target" the father of one had been "brutally attacked" on the
street and had been rushed to the hospital "bloody and bruised, his face
swollen from a fractured jaw." The
post was published on the HuffintonPost website.
He also said the young professor had
many of his teeth displaced.
Crimes like this are inevitable as long as the media fail to stop portraying some set of people in a bad light.
Crimes like this are inevitable as long as the media fail to stop portraying some set of people in a bad light.
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