[westmichman]

Why do they wear those stupid turbans?

[Long Island Pete]

To hide the bomb.

[Miss Marple]

I believe that gentleman with Pelosi is a Sikh. They are a sect which doesn't cut their hair and always wear a turban to cover it. It is part of their religion, as I understand it.

They are not Moslems.

[Ben Mugged]

The turban is a religious symbol of the Sikh religion.

Due to the turbans Sikhs wear, people in Western countries have sometimes confused Sikhs with all Middle Eastern men or Muslims. This has affected Sikhs in times of conflict with elements of the Middle East. For example, during the Iranian hostage crisis when the government of Iran held Americans hostages in its own country, some people in Western countries misunderstood the Sikh turban as a turban worn by all Middle Eastern men. After the World Trade Center attack on September 11, 2001, some people associated Sikhs with terrorists or members of the Taliban. A few days after the attack, Balbir Singh Sodhi, a Sikh man, was gunned down by a person who thought that the victim had ties to Al-Qaeda, concluding that this misconception has lead to an increase in hate-crimes against Sikh men in the United States