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India reacts with grief, outrage over Wisconsin killing of Sikhs
LA Times ^ | August 6, 2012

Posted on 08/06/2012 9:14:56 AM PDT by ravager

NEW DELHI -- India reacted with grief and outrage at the news that at least six Sikhs were killed when a gunman attacked them Sunday in their Wisconsin temple as they prayed and prepared food. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, said in a statement Monday that he was shocked and saddened by the news and extended his condolences to the families of the victims.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: india; sikh; wadepage
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1 posted on 08/06/2012 9:15:05 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

When Indians do secretarian violence, they do it well, casualty counts into the thousands barely make news. But it seems these people know their American politics of victimization and demonization well.


2 posted on 08/06/2012 9:22:40 AM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: ravager

They had me till this. Tearing up our flag? Stay in your own country bub.


3 posted on 08/06/2012 9:23:33 AM PDT by jmacusa (Political correctness is cultural Marxism. I'm not a Marxist.)
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To: ravager

Idiots. These people are going to give Sikhs a bad name in the US...


4 posted on 08/06/2012 9:25:30 AM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: ravager

PSikhs for Justice, which describes itself as a U.S.-based human rights advocacy group, said in a statement that it was donating $10,000 to the badly wounded Wisconsin police officer who risked his life in the attack and likely saved many other Sikhs. The officer was taken to a Milwaukee hospital and is expected to survive.

But the group also said the U.S. needed to do a better job protecting Sikhs and members of other religious minorities.”

Hmmmmmm...these two sentences read a little funny, following each other, no? Are they suggesting a cop in every church, synagogue, mosque? Or are they just stupid? Stick a handgun under one of those turbans boys, you’ll be able to defend yourselves. Or do you have a “let’s all be sheep in the pen for the wolves” no handgun policy?


5 posted on 08/06/2012 9:26:09 AM PDT by jessduntno ("Racism is not dead...it is on life support - kept alive by politicians..." - Thomas Sowell)
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To: ravager
I guess no Americans have ever been killed in India by madmen. Right?

These people aren't acting like Sikhs.

6 posted on 08/06/2012 9:28:44 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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Did you mean “sectarian violence”?

At least when Indians do “sectarian violence” they recognize their real enemy, not kill random people with beard and turban.

7 posted on 08/06/2012 9:31:02 AM PDT by ravager
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To: TigersEye
Definitely nowhere near as many Indians killed in the US.
8 posted on 08/06/2012 9:33:35 AM PDT by ravager
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan

If they have family and relatives getting killed, I doubt they are going to worry about “bad name”.


9 posted on 08/06/2012 9:36:14 AM PDT by ravager
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No doubt about that.

junta is right. These Sikhs are learning American politics of Victimhood Culture. If foreigners are going to hate America they should hate it for the right reasons. The American left. Come here and liberals will destroy every vestige of good your culture has if you let them.

10 posted on 08/06/2012 9:39:51 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

I dont think there is any reason to hate America, but Sikhs have valid cause to be outraged at least in this case regardless of what sectarian violence happens in India. And junta is wrong.


11 posted on 08/06/2012 9:45:41 AM PDT by ravager
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“junta is right. These Sikhs are learning American politics of Victimhood Culture. If foreigners are going to hate America they should hate it for the right reasons. The American left. Come here and liberals will destroy every vestige of good your culture has if you let them. “

If an American in India was killed by Sikhs, I’m sure you’d be singing a different tune.


12 posted on 08/06/2012 9:50:54 AM PDT by ari-freedom
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I guess it's not just Americans who enjoy politicizing a tragedy. The Indians aren't exactly squeaky-clean when it comes to Sikhs, either.
13 posted on 08/06/2012 9:56:39 AM PDT by jboot (OPSEC. It's a killjoy, but it may save your life someday.)
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If an American in India was killed by Sikhs,...

An absurd analogy. The Sikhs here were killed by a madman not someone of a major religion or cultural sect of America.

...I’m sure you’d be singing a different tune.

Even if you fixed your analogy to make sense my answer would be "no, I wouldn't." These people who are protesting are idiots who have drunk the Kook-Aid of the American left.

14 posted on 08/06/2012 10:03:31 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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And junta is wrong.

junta nailed it to the wall with a dead-bang bullseye!

15 posted on 08/06/2012 10:08:03 AM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: jboot

Maybe not. But its the Sikhs in India who are protesting the killing of Sikhs in US. Sectarian violence in India does not make killing of Sikhs in US alright.


16 posted on 08/06/2012 10:08:23 AM PDT by ravager
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To: jboot

Maybe not. But its the Sikhs in India who are protesting the killing of Sikhs in US. Sectarian violence in India does not make killing of Sikhs in US alright.


17 posted on 08/06/2012 10:11:48 AM PDT by ravager
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To: TigersEye
He is not. If anything Junta is dead wrong, because violence in India does not make violence against Sikhs justified.
18 posted on 08/06/2012 10:15:39 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ari-freedom
You mean like hundreds of Christians killed and thousands driven from their homes in India?

Indian Massacre of Christians
19 posted on 08/06/2012 10:19:05 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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And you are wrong too.

“If foreigners are going to hate America they should hate it for the right reasons. The American left.”

As much as I dislike the left wingers. To be fair, this killer was an extremist right winger.

20 posted on 08/06/2012 10:21:01 AM PDT by ravager
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