In continuation of the history since 2001, many Sikhs had to face brutal attack by the majority in America, as per the data assembled. In the latest such incident as per the New York Police Department's surveillance video of few suspects, who are believed to be involved in the attack, shows a group of young 15-20 suspects riding their bikes shortly before they encountered Prabhjot Singh, assistant professor at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, as he walking with a friend. Singh was brutally attacked by about 20-30 young men who repeatedly punched him and "pulled his beard" as he was walking in the city's Harlem neighbourhood last Saturday night. He was rushed to a local hospital, where he also works as a physician, and admitted with severe bruising, swelling, small puncture in his elbow and fracture in his lower jaw.
In a previous attack six residents of Wisconsin were killed in the planned attack in a tragic shooting at a gurdwara in August. Prabhjot Singh had written in the New York Times days after the attack, "The legacy of anti-Sikh violence and its contemporary prevalence make it painfully obvious that anti-Sikh violence is often purposeful and targeted. The government must begin tracking and counting anti-Sikh hate crimes, just as it must continue to vigorously combat bias and discrimination against all Americans, including Muslims. We must do away with a flawed and incomplete assumption of 'mistaken identity' regarding Sikhs; until we do, we will all be the ones who are mistaken," .
Rights group the Sikh Coalition said the attack on Singh is a "tremendous blow" not just to Sikh Americans but to the ideals of all New Yorkers."What happened did not happen in a vacuum. Here in New York City we regularly receive reports that Sikh school children are called 'Bin Laden' or 'terrorist' by classmates and sometimes endure physical violence," programme director of the Sikh Coalition Amardeep Singh said.
SALDEF's executive director Jasjit Singh said, "Here you have a practising doctor, a teacher and a community servant falling victim to hate in the largest and proudest melting pot in America. This violence is an affront to all Americans' core values."
These religious hate attack and killings of the Sikhs (minority) by the Americans (majority) have taken place in the biggest city and head quarters of United Nations New York and other places in US.
Will some one be tempted enough to demand denial of Indian visa to President Obama, as his repeated attempt to stop this religion based hate attack and torture on Sikhs has failed ?