Read the following article and answer the questions that follow:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/23/newser-sikh-attack/2854043/
1. What is a Sikh?
2. Is the group of men at all justified for their actions?
3. After two articles about hate crimes in NYC, do you believe that this sort of social unrest is on the rise? If not, why not? If so, why do you think that people are behaving in this way so much more than they used to?
1) A Sikh is is follower of the religion "Sikhism."
ReplyDelete2) None of the men can be justified for their actions. They thought they were doing the right thing because of the 9/11 attacks more than a decade ago, but in reality what they did to that poor Sikh man is horrific and unjustifiable.
3) I believe it is not "on the rise," but instead is just the most interesting story of the time. A lot of these cases just don't get discussed or reported on, so these hate crimes are happening just as frequently as they have been, but they're getting more outlandish now.
Nicholas B. Davis
ReplyDelete1.an adherent of Sikhism.
2.By God no, they are racist radicals and they need it be tryed for their actions
3.no, because this sort of thing happens every day and they will continue to happen. They still will happen and it is turning into another Chicago.
Kacy Howard
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region. The term "Sikh" means disciple or student. Sikhs believe they must love God, meditate on God, keep God in the heart, feel God's nearness and also be strong, courageous and ready to fight to protect weak people from cruel unjust attackers. To answer the question asking if they are justified for their actions, I feel as though they are, but in the recent attacks in New York they haven't been. I do not feel that this sort of unrest is on the rise because I feel as if it is just a few groups who are doing the crimes. When I was in New York this past summer I did not see one crime while i was there, which may not mean anything but I just happened to not see anything, but it wouldn't make sense
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion. A Sikh is a disciple of the Guru. The group of men are not justified or their actions. They had no legitimate reason for hurting the innocent man. They acted based on race, which is very ignorant and wrong of them to do. In addition, I do believe that social unrest is on the rise. After slavery was abolished, many whites acted this way towards blacks, which was very wrong. Today, many people are similar, but I think to a higher level. Arrogant people, today, do not know when enough is enough. As shown in the article, a person who is not "the right race, color, or sex" will not be left alone until they are physically and mentally unable to stand up for themselves. For example, I read an article a while back about a Muslim girl who continually was bullied for her religious beliefs and was hurt constantly in the hallways. She finally got the point to where she refused to go to school anymore. All in all, today everyone's behavior is on a whole new level of cruelty than what it used to be.
ReplyDeleteKaty Howard
Sikh is a religion in which men customarily wear turbans and have long beards. The actions of the group of men that attacked this innocent bystander are absolutely ludicrous and cannot be justified in any way. Social unrest is imminent because of the significant increase in the amount of hate crimes recently. People are causing social unrest because they are simply paranoid and make illusionary correlations. Many people associate skin color with stereotypical actions. For instance, anyone who is brown is often accused of being a terrorist or is questioned more than someone who is caucasian. Almost every time I go to a airport I am "randomly searched" because of my caramel, brown skin color with is somehow associated with me being a terrorist. This illusionary correlation is absolutely ludicrous and social unrest will only continue to get worse.
ReplyDeleteSidhanth Chandra
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab reign. Sikhs believe in the equality of humankind, universal brotherhood, and one Supreme transcendent God. the men who attacked the Sikh professor are not at all justified for their actions. attacking a man and seriously injuring him is against the law. It is intentional assault and the men should be arrested and placed in jail for their actions. As Americans, we have the right to practice any religion we desire to practice; therefore, if the man had been Muslim, the attackers still would not be justified because they would still be breaking the law and assaulting an innocent man. Violence due to race or religion has been occurring in the United States since the first settlers arrived. The first British settlers in American left England due to the prejudice against them for they were Protestant. Hate crimes have increased in resent years partially because of the continuing prejudice against people from the Middle East. This prejudice was and is caused by the war and tension in the Middle East. People have tendencies to follow the people around them, thus, when someone begins to show prejudice against a certain people, their friends usually respond in the same way. Americans have been influenced to hate people from the Middle East; likewise, the violence against Americans of that origin are now experiencing prejudice and violence.
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Bethany Lovell
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a person who belongs to the religion that is against the Hindu caste system, magic, religious voyages, and idolatry and they believe in only one god. Those men are not at all justified for what they did because they did what we all do unknowingly (and sometimes knowingly) do on a daily basis: stereotyping. They instantly looked at that man and stereotyped him to be a terrorist just because he was Arabian. Yes, those men who attacked the World Trade Center were Arabian and they paid for what they did; however, all Americans need to stop seeing every Arabian individual as a terrorist because they are people just like us. Social unrest is on the rise in America because people are just traumatized by all the events that have been going on lately with the 9/11 attacks in the past, and the recent bombings and shootings, especially the ones performed by Arabians. There has just been so much violence occurring in the world right now that it has translated into many Americans' hearts and influenced them to be violent too. The solution is to stop judging people for their appearances (and their religions), and to walk in their shoes for a bit and see how their life is. Those men who attacked that poor professor need to do this too.
Sikh ,a person that is monotheistic , and dose not advocate the worship of idols, magic or pilgrimages and refuses to recognize Hindu castle systems or its
ReplyDeletepriesthood. no the group of men are not right for their action . first, they accused the man of something he is not. a Sikh is very different than a Muslim, and they attack a man with no weapon,with no intent to harm anyone. The men did no one any favor because it puts a rift between Sikh's and Americans in a way. they create a issues when there was no reason for a issue. this social unrest is on the rise because in the world we live in today we know more about the rest of the world. we know if they love or hate us and just put up with America. people are more aware that other countries can and will attack us. things like the Boston marathon and 9/11 put fear in American. they also make people on edge to protect what they call as home. sadly, many people immigrate here to have a better life. most are from countries that don't like America and the people get all American's fear and anxiety throw at them. people see how counties are torn by war, bombs and terrorist as we know first hand the impact of that kind of pain and struggle. the availability of information has made many American's heart closed to other beliefs and cultures, but opened their hands to guns, bombs, and violence. people act out because of fear and their own insecurities. people also have learned to abuse their rights ore freely. like the freedom of the press. when miss American was an American with Indian decent , Americans went over and beyond to chastise her winning. this shows how American's knowledge of their right are twisted to hurt other cultures and make America's moral "a place for a better life and education" seem to have a two faced meaning. American's are getting more blood in showing their true colors: Red, for blood, Green, for selfishness and greed and white, for having the right intention at heart but Red and Green gets in the way. the social unrest that happens now will most likely increase do to people's state of mind towards other people, greed , pride and insecurities . not all Americans are like this but it only takes a few million bad apples to make America a harsh place to live. people now a day have know idea who really is sane. For instance the an that killed the man I n the park that left his 92 year old mom to care for herself. he could have been fine yesterday, the killed man the next day, but know he is labeled mentally ill. the case with the ten year old that killed his 90 year old care taker after playing grand thief auto. was he really sane or did just got tired of the old lady bagging him?. people don't know any more and can't tell. what wrong is right and what is right is wrong. people can hardly understand their own counties groves and turns , and put on top of that another country that could possibly try to attack or harm itself that indirectly hurts American , people will shut down in various ways cause harm to themselves, others or tarnishing America's light of hope. if a Muslim girl lives in America and America is at war with her nation, why treat her wrong? she did not start the war nor can she end it. why take your frustration out on her.. she would not deserve hate when she came here to learn or death when she came here to live. people's reckless and senseless action revile fear until it strikes again.
people know but don't know how to handle the information. Americans are prisoners to fear. fear of the unknown or of another culture taking over, causes many Americans to miss the big picture.
Nisha Singh
ReplyDeleteSikh is monotheistic religion and was founded in the Punjabi religion of India.
The group of men are not justified at all for their actions, it was ignorant and
just plain out wrong. Even if the man was Muslim , it does not mean that all
Muslims are terrorist. This is stereotyping and can not be justified in any way.
Being of Indian descent , I find it disturbing that a group of people would just
assume because he was brown or wearing a turban he was a terrorist. I do believe
that this sort of of social unrest is on the rise for many reasons. Because of
the stereotype that terrorist have set ,not only for not Muslims, but "brown"
people in general it has been hard for many. People are behaving in this way
because they feel like they should have some control of the situation, so they
are being just completely ignorant. If any thing people should be more open
minded , and read a book before they attack the next brown person on the street
because that could me.
-STAY SWAGGY RAY RAY-
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, it is a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region.The term "Sikh" means disciple, or student.
ReplyDeleteThe group of men were not justified for their actions. But i think they should be because they did something brutal without a cause. I mean like he wasn't hurting anybody, he was just taking a walk. But then again you don't really know what people are doing now days. So you have to be really careful. I do believe that this sort of social unrest is on the rise. And people behave like this because they may just have a metal problem or they just now want to show us something or prove something.
A Sikh is a believer of the Sikhism belief, they are know for their long beards and turbans, which are very similar and easily mistaken as Muslim.I personally do not believe that these men are at justice for their crimes. These senerios are hate crimes; crimes that are committed due to prejudice or hatred of something. These are crimes that could be avoided if people would restrain themselves. This type of crime does seem to be on rise because of all the intellectually-challenged humans on planet Earth; people who are to idiotic and naive to restrain themselves and release their tension in another manner such as an extracurricular activity. This is why it is proven in schools that if a student participates in several extracurricular activities he or she stays out of trouble,
ReplyDelete-Abbi Spencer
A Sikh is a disciple of God who follows the teachings of the Ten Sikh Gurus. Male Sikhs grow long beards and wear turbans as a religious practice. The group of men involved in Prabjot Singh’s assault in New York City were not justified in their actions. Although they mistakenly thought Singh was a Muslim, their intentions for a Muslim were malignant. Based on the group in this incident and the hate-crime involving Jeffrey Babbitt and Lashawn Marten, this form of social unrest is on the rise. People are beginning to behave this way because of traumatic events, such as the fall of the Twin Towers and the war in Iraq. Such events have caused people to become more cautious, even hostile, toward people who resemble Middle Eastern terrorists.
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a “member of Indian religion: a member of a religious group that broke away from Hinduism during the 16th century and advocated a monotheistic doctrine, incorporating some aspects of Islam.” These men thought beating up Singh was the right thing to do as a task of revenge, but they should have checked who he really was before beating him. These men cannot justify what they did and it be okay. I do believe hate crimes are at a social unrest and are rising, especially in NYC, because of terrorist attacks on September 11. People are behaving this way more often because they are seeking revenge for 9/11 attacks and not much revenge has been taken by the government, so people are starting to take matters into their own hands. We are becoming more patriotic and it is making us dislike other countries more for the harm and pain they have caused us in the past. I personally have had racist thoughts about sketchy looking people while getting on a plane. I know it is wrong but it is a natural reaction for me to think of 9/11 when getting on flight.
ReplyDeleteBrooke Gilbert
A Sikh is a follower of the monotheistic religion called Sikhism. It was founded in India during the 15th or 16th century by Guru Nanak. Sikhism rejects caste distinctions, idolatry, and asceticism. They believe in a cycle of reincarnation from which humans can free themselves by living righteous lives as active members of society. The religion has elements of both Hinduism and Islam. It is the fifth largest religion practiced worldwide with over 30 million adherents. The group of men that attacked Prabjot Singh are in no way justified for what they did to him. Even if he was a Muslim, which they thought he was, beating a helpless man till he is on the verge of death is never justified. Someone cannot just walk up to another person and start beating them simply because they are different. The sort of social unrests like the one Singh experienced is on the rise in America. In today’s society, drugs, alcohol, and people with undiagnosed mental illness are growing. These can cause reasoning to be inhibited and make people act out violently. In September, a man was left brain dead after another man, probably with a mental illness, punched him in Union Station because he was white. Singh was severely wounded after the men beat him because they thought he was Muslim. Both of these events were hate crimes that have become more and more prevalent than in the past.
ReplyDelete~~Colton Herren~~
A Sikh is a follower of a religion called Sikhism. Sikhism involves the concept of karma. It does not involve any sort of supernatural being, but is based solely on the virtue of simplicity. It is common in natives of Middle Eastern countries.
ReplyDeleteThere is no valid reason for that group of men to have beaten Prabjot Singh. The only reason that they did that was because he possessed the physical characteristics that terrorist from Middle Eastern countries also possess. Yes, terrorists are definitely a group to fear, but you cannot label someone as a terrorist simpt.
Hate crimes are definitely increasing. A huge reason that people are acting out this way more than they used to is the fact that there have been a number of terrorist attacks in the U.S. in recent years, not the least being the horrific tragedy on September 11, 2001, in which the death toll reached 2,992. Another recent terrorist attack occurred at the Boston Marathon this year on April 15, killing at least three people and injuring over one hundred.
The rise of hate crimes against Muslims and others of that descent is not a shock considering the recent terrorist attacks. However, it is NOT justifiable, because, as the saying goes, "Never judge a book by its cover." Therefore do not judge a person based only on the color of their skin.
Kaitlyn Elwood
ReplyDelete1. A Sikh is an adherent of Sikhism; a member of an Indian religion that separated from Hinduism and was founded in the 16th century, that teaches monotheism and that has the Granth as its chief religious document, rejecting the authority of the Vedas.
2. No, what this group of men did make me outraged. There was no reason at all to just beat this guy up because he looks “foreign.”
3. Yes, I do believe this sort of social unrest is on the rise. As you can tell by just watching the news and many other things hate crimes and other violence are only getting worse in America. People are seeing so much publicity over such things, and so I feel they only do such to have everyones eyes on them. They want to put on a show for everyone to see. Mankind has just went crazy. Everything is only going to get worse, there are no signs of things getting better.
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. I do not believe they were justified in there actions because they had not been threatened by him in any way and were just racial profiling him. They should not have beaten up a random guy on the street just because he was of Muslim descent. I believe there is a rising of hate crimes in the world. I think it is because no one can get along right now and are just waiting to break and releases there anger on the next person that comes by. I think that we are acting like this because we hear of all these thing that some one from a different race has done something then someone blames the whole race and then seeks revenge against them. Tripp Harrison
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ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. The men were not justified in their actions because that man had done nothing wrong and should not have to be punished for his beliefs under the rights of the constitution. I think that said "hate crimes" are on the rise, especially after a similar crime happened in New York City just a few weeks ago. I think these attacks are becoming worse and more frequent because of the recent rise of terrorism over the past few years. I think that is wrong to assume that someone is a Muslim or a terrorist just because they're from the middle east and I have seen many people be stereotyped because of their ethnic background.
Sikh, a monotheistic religion, was founded in the Punjabi religion of India during the 15th century. The group of men was not at all justified for their actions because they beat up a man for no reason just because they thought he was Muslim. Even if Singh had been Muslim it would still been wrong. For one, it was a hate crime against the “brown” colored people. Many think that just because of September 11, 2001, that all Muslims are terrorists who hope to harm America, which is stereotyping and dishonest. After reading the two articles of the hate crimes happening in New York City recently, I do believe that this sort of social unrest is on the rise. Because of the crimes- although not all are hate crimes- being between two different races in the past few years- from Trayvon Martin, to the shooting a couple weeks ago at the Naval Yard in Washington, D.C.- it has become evident that ignorance overrides self control and many believe that it is OK to attack other races/cultures out of spite. Also, society has begun to over use the term “racist” to the point where if any crime is committed between two different skin colors (for example, the Trayvon Martin case) that America picks a side based on racial preferences and claims that the other should be at fault for “racist assault”, which also contributes the rise of social unrest. One hate crime, or “racist crime”, leads to another and the tensions between races continues to grow.
ReplyDeleteKatie Irvin
A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion founded by Garu Nanak in Punjab, India. The group of men are not justified in their actions in this specific case seeing as how they attacked solely based off Singh's appearance (a turban and long beard); I assume past events of terrorism played a role in their attack based of their cry: "Get Osama!". Their blurred association with a "Muslim appearance" and terrorism exhibits a misconstrued reality and inability to further understand the difference among the two religions/cultures.
ReplyDeleteThe amount of social unrest is dual-sided; the censorship of information is the variable that separates now from then. It would be difficult to discern whether or not we experience more social unrest now than then. For example, the Civil Rights movement in both America and Great Britain resulted in a number of lynchings (specifically, but not limited to, the southern region of the United States) that went undisclosed nationally, or worldwide for that matter. It all depends on what we're allowed to see.
People are most likely reacting in such unruly ways because today's society is far more exposed via the internet.
Iyana Gray
Griffin Sheffield,
ReplyDeleteSikh means deciple or student and a Sikh is a follower of Sikhism. The group of men that beat this poor young man had absolutely no justification. Just because you don't like a persons religion, you dont have the right, lawfully or morally, to beat the person. Although this situation has been the topic two times in a row now, it does not mean that this type of social unrest is on the rise. While I was in New York City for three days, I noticed that a large chunk of the cities population is made up of Muslims or Sikhs. Since there are so many of them, there would be many more occurrences of these hate crimes if this sort of social unrest was on a rise. Honestly, the group of men had probably had a little too much to drink and weren't thinking properly. I noticed a lot of drunk people while I was in the city. Also, only a hand few of people would beat somebody like that, so it's not like its increasing to the point of an uprising.
A Sikh is an adherent of a monotheistic religion of India who wears turbans and has long beards. They are not justified for their action because they had no reason for beating up Prabjot Singh. People should not randomly hurt or beat people that look like terrorists because they have no reason to do that. I do believe the social unrest is on the rise because more and more people are getting hurt every day. People are behaving like this because they feel like they can have justice by hurting these types of people. They are behaving like this than they used to because there are more terrorist acts these days than there used to be a long time ago; for example, the terrorist attack in Kenya. –Kelsey Skurka
ReplyDeleteGrace Shim, future organizational psychiatrist.
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is what I'm going to assume is a follower of Sikhism, a monotheistic religion(one god) usually practiced by those in India. "Sikhs are expected to embody the qualities of a "Sant-Sipāhī"—a saint-soldier. Which means to love God, meditate on God, keep God in the heart, feel God's nearness and also be strong, courageous and ready to fight to protect weak people from cruel unjust attackers." (Wikipedia on Sikhism, 2nd paragraph, 6th sentence.) THerefore, these men are absolutely NOT justified in their actions. Their actions showed much ignorance and stupidity, and the outcome could have been highly avoided, were they not so ignorant. Just because the man who was attacked had darker skin than the men who attacked him, he was unjustly labeled as a "terrorist" or as the men would have seen it, "part of the Al Qaeda." This bothers me so much because I know it feels to be stereotyped and ridiculed by others just because of how different I look from others. We are all human beings who have feelings, no matter what skin tone or facial structure. People seem to forget that and go out of their way to jump to conclusions and judge others. A great example of this would be the new Miss America, who was just recently crowned to a non-white female. She has received so much hate just because of her origin and her skin color and people don't seem to want to realize that she is not from Iraq or Iran. It's not hard to find where she is from, I promise cause I just looked it up 2 seconds ago, but these ignorant fools jump to conclusions and freaking hate on her because of her skin color. BTW she's Indian. But I digress. Sorry. I think there has always been social unrest, we've just not been aware of it until now, especially since there wasn't anything like television nor internet. It's not hard to find some sort of sad news each day. Or to find any news. Back then you only had newspapers or whatever spread around through word, but now anything can be shown through any type of media. It's so great.
P.S. Mr. Ray, I'm sorry if my comments are all over the place. The comment box is really small, so it's hard to keep track of what's going on and look back at it before I submit it. Please forgiveeeee. <3
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ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a person who is a disciple of God in Sikhism. Sikhism is where there is one God among all religions and there are no blind rituals such as fasting. The group of men were not justified for their actions because it was just out of prejudice; they did not actually know if he was Muslim. Social unrest is on the rise because of wars and congress being unstable right now. Also the mentally unstable will take advantage of this by committing a crime for attention, like the guy who blew up a theater during the premiere of The Dark Night Rises so he could successfully cos-play as the joker. Before this time, crime was less because congress was more stable.
SHELLEY CURRY
ReplyDeleteSikh is a monotheistic religion founded in the Punjab region.The term "Sikh" means disciple or student. They were students of the Guru. There are 27 million Sikh's all over the world today. What the mob did was wrong in many ways. It was pure discrimination. They knew nothing of him but judging him by his looks caused the group of men to attack. This act of violence was not justified in any way. The group took one look at him and started shouting terrorist and started to attack. I believe that American civilization is changing and becoming more hateful. Over the years so many bad things have happened all over the world and it has a domino affect and is going out of control. The more stories you here on the news the worse they become.
A Sikhi is a person that belongs to a type of Indian religion that is separated from Hinduism in the 16th century. It is absolutely absurd that people are attacked based on their color, sex, religion, etc. It is never okay to judge someone for their beliefs. These boys that attacked this man had no idea who this man was, where he was from, or anything....yet attacked him because they "thought" he was a Muslim. They only behaved this way because they were finding a way to use violence. Even if he was a Muslim, they would still have NO right to attack this person. I understand they want to protect our community by keeping out the bad guys out, however, this guy wasn't a bad guy. You can't attack someone because they "look" bad or "look" suspicious to you. Society knows more about hate crimes because we have instant access to the news through technology. It's not that hate crime has increased, but our technology has increased, so we find out immediately when something bad happens.
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Morgan House- A Sikh is a member of an Indian religion that separated from Hinduism in the 16th century. It is not justifiable at all for anyone to attack someone based on their race, color, creed, or religion. I believe this sort of social unrest, however, is not rising. As an overall picture, Christians can be attacked left and right via words. Around the world their being killed and it's not reported unless you dig deep to find out the news about them. Anything can be said against Christians it seems and it's okay, yet when anyone is talking against other religions it's unheard of and gets publicized like crazy. These boys just used the fact that the man was a type of person they didn't like in order to take out their aggression and to have an excuse to fight. "Hate crimes", in my opinion, don't even exist. Nobody can prove your motivations. A crime is a crime no matter what. I believe that hate crimes have NOT increased, just the publicity of them. Here in America, we may believe we have it bad, but in other countries people aren't worried about getting beat up or mugged, their worried about being killed and put in body bags. In WW2 Americans with Japanese decent were rounded up and put in detention centers because of their race. Japan attacked America and bombed Pearl Harbor so we nuked them and we won. When they bombed us, because the country where they came from bombed us and attacked America, they did away with them. When the railroads were being expanded out West, Chinese were brought over here to work on the railroads and Americans were angered because they felt they were taking their jobs. The Americans killed many Chinese migrant workers when the economy crashed. These two examples go to show that overall it's not a new concept at all. Today we have new technology that allows us to find out about these tragedies in a matter of seconds and allow it to spread further and faster than ever before. Mass media allows these crimes to be more publicized than ever before, backing up my reasoning for me to believe that hate crimes have not increased.
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ReplyDeleteHate crimes- something that always has happened and always will happen, but something that is becoming way too common in the American society. Probjot Singh was attacked and beaten simply because of his looks. People today often act without reasoning. This group of people said "he looked like a terrorist" but they had no proof. They went off of their first instinct and judged Singh for his appearance. This affects almost everyone in the American society daily. Americans are judged daily by their own people over whether they are short, tall, white, black, fat, skinny, or by the clothes they wear. As a high school girl this is a concept I am faced with everyday at school, but for a group of people to take it to the level of physically injuring someone obviously means the situation needs to be dealt with. The group of men are not at all justified for their actions. If they had truly believed that Singh was a terrorist they should have called the police and let them handle it. Singh was a Sikh. A Sikh is a follower of Sikhism (a belief that there is one God). Singh's religion and appearance led many to believe he was a Muslim terrorist. I do believe that this kind of social unrest is rising in American. It is rising because people have taken the freedoms they have been given and taken them to an extreme level of insaneness. With more technology and opportunities in the world people want freedom and power and some with go overboard to achieve those two temporary things.
Silvia Brosolo
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a follower of the Sikhism, a monotheistic religion founded in the Indian subcontinent; Sikh people believe in immortal beings named Gurus and are considered their disciples.
The men who attacked the Sikh are absolutely not justified, primarily because no kind of violence should be in any case accepted; the man had not done anything to provoke his attackers, but they wouldn't have been excused even if he did: to justify them would mean to accept individual justice above the common law. It is true that such hatred and fear towards Muslims are not surprising since the terrible recent events related to terrorism that devastated America, but there is no possible justification for such an act of brutality and, since there were more than twenty men and they were on bikes, cowardice.
Even if there have been many similar cases recently, we can't say that this kind of social unrest is rising; even if things are not improving very fast, thanks to the creation of laws and movements during the last century the situation has changed: it is surely better than in the 19th century, when black people or immigrants were lynched in the streets, or at the beginning of the 20th century, when even clubs against people of different cultures, religion or skin color were created and not only accepted (at least for some time) by the society, but also joined by a very large amount of people. It is true that we are light years distant from a society founded on acceptance and tolerance, but things have surely changed since just a few decades ago.
A Sikh is a follower, disciple, or subject of Sikhism. Sikhism is a monotheistic religion that originated in the 15th century. The group of men are not at all justified for their actions. The actions made by the group of men was prejudice and unnecessary. I do, however, believe that this "social unrest" is on the rise. More and more people today are being injured or killed for no reason other than the way they look on the outside. People may be reacting this way because the tentions are rising with everything that is happening in the world.
ReplyDelete- Emmy Melchior
The word Sikh literally means 'disciple.' A Sikh is someone who is a disciple of the Satguru. The mob is not justified at all for their actions. The article never explains the punishment of the mobs activities. It is the root of all man kind to be born into this world with evil temptations therefore, I do not believe people are behaving differently. People have and always will do bad things, now days things are more sociably noted because of the rise in technology and the stress of having to withhold a certain image of todays social status.
ReplyDelete-Danielle Deese
A Sikh is a member of a monotheistic religion that chooses not to recognize the Hindu caste system, but the religion (Sikhism) includes elements of Hinduism and Islam.
ReplyDeleteNo, I believe that the mob is not at all justified for their actions. Ironically, their decision to act as "vigilantes" against Prabjot Singh was utterly "un-American" in their efforts AND totally inhuman. According to other sources, it is stated that one of his assailants attempted to pull a gun on this man. Singh was also unable to give descriptions of these men due to his injuries (dislocated teeth, fractured jaw). Therefore, it is more than likely that "justice" will not be an ally in Singh's attempts to bring these cowardly (a group of 20 unidentified men) persons to a court of law.
Events in history related to this such as the numerous lynchings that took place within the 1800s to the early 1970s in America and other forms of persecution and punishment targeted towards women, African Americans, people of Jewish descent, and others who did not meet the "ideal American man" criteria. The murders of new-age "career girls" Janice Wylie and Emily Hoffert in 1963 on the 28th of August- the same day as the March on Washington are an example of hate crimes in New York.
Overall, I believe that this sort of social unrest is on the rise. I believe that people are behaving this way because there are still remnants of the negative parts of an old American mindset that litter the present. These remnants seem strengthen more and more as racial barriers are being broken more and more each day (election of 2008, Miss America 2013). Personally, this idea that racial prejudice and discrimination take form in some of the older relatives of today and the fact that they are passed down from generation to generation is highly relevant because I see in everyday life. I walk in the hallways at school, and I see many fellow classmates who support their religion or overall heritage...I hear the negative comments from some of my more "privileged" classmates that judge, stereotype, and degrade these human beings solely based on skin pigment or religion.
Megan Bandy
ReplyDeleteA Sikh is a disciple or student of the Guru.
No the men broke the law and even if he ws a Muslim that doesn't give them the right to hurt or kill another human being. He had nothing to do with 9/11 and shouldn't be accused of being a terrorist just because the color of his skin.
Yes it is on the rise because the world is not at peace and people are filled with hate. With everything going on in the world tenses are rising and people are uneducated about why it is happening. People will have their own beliefs/opinions weather it be wrong or right.
According to the Free Dictionary, Sikh is "A monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by the guru Nanak. Sikhism rejects caste distinctions, idolatry, and asceticism and is characterized by belief in a cycle of reincarnation from which humans can free themselves by living righteous lives as active members of society." As far as the men being justified for their actions, the answer is no. No one is justified for attacking another person especially not because of their beliefs, race or culture.
ReplyDeleteThis type of behavior has gone on forever. It happened even in Jesus's time. Samaritains were treated badly by others. It isn't that people are behaving this way more often. The whole problem is the media. We have faster ways for information to get out and the media is sharing more than just the local things as in the past.
I don't feel that social unrest is any greater now but I do feel that technology and media outlets make it seem like it is.
Morgan Green: A Sikh is someone who believes in Sikhism, a monotheistic religion unrelated to Islam. There are numerous reasons why this group of men is in no way justified for their actions. To begin with, it is completely unacceptable to make an assumption about an individual's religious views or character based solely upon his or her appearance. Furthermore, even if the group of men had known for a fact that the professor was Muslim, it is ignorant and foolish for them to put the professor in the same category as the radical, violent terrorists who claimed to follow Islam while committing such enormous acts of murder. Also, one can reasonably infer that this group of men knew that Osama Bin Laden had already been executed by the U.S. military; therefore, the men were even more in the wrong for calling this average U.S. citizen Osama. It is unfortunate that this sort of social unrest is on the rise. It is unclear exactly why more people are behaving this way, other than the fact that within the last fifty or sixty years the Christian values of average American citizens have disintegrated, making way for more evil to pollute the country. If the average American does not begin to take a stand on his moral values and make it clear that this type of violence is unacceptable, the problem will only worsen.
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