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At the Broncos-Chargers game in San Diego last Sunday, a group of four Sikh Broncos fans were allegedly stopped by security guards before entering the stadium, asked to remove their turbans, and had their car searched by a bomb-sniffing dog, according to San Diego ABC 10 News.

Verinder Mahli and his three buddies drove seven hours from Fresno to get to the game and, according to Mahli, were greeted by what seems like a heinous act of profiling. Mahli told KGTV that security initially refused them entry because his three friends were wearing turbans.

Security was not the only problem, however, as police responded to a "fearful fan" who called to report "three men wearing turbans were fiddling with items in their trunk." Men fiddling with something in their trunk in the parking lot of a football game? Well, I never.

"It's bad, I mean, this is embarrassing for me, because we are Americans at the end of the day," Mahli said. "And we are not supposed to be afraid of fellow Americans."

ABC 10 reports that San Diego city officials are looking into the incident, adding that stadium security are not technically city officials.

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/highl...ey-wore-turbans/?utm_source=vicesportstwitter
 
I expect usual suspects to repeat "better be safe than sorry" logic.
 
I expect usual suspects to repeat "better be safe than sorry" logic.
Thats what they don't understand. All these 'security' measures they're proposing against Muslims will also affect non-Muslims of SC backgrounds, including Indian origin Hindus and Sikhs.
 
Thats what they don't understand. All these 'security' measures they're proposing against Muslims will also affect non-Muslims of SC backgrounds, including Indian origin Hindus and Sikhs.

I guess they couldn't careless since it hasn't happened to them yet or they are not aware of profiling thing in America.
 
Sorry to say that Sikhs with their turbans on are in the firing line in current day America. It must just be a cosmetic thing, for their names aren't Muslim in the slightest.
 
Sorry to say that Sikhs with their turbans on are in the firing line in current day America. It must just be a cosmetic thing, for their names aren't Muslim in the slightest.

Sikhs are in firing line at the best of times because they stick out like sore thumbs.

These dayside even Indian origin Hindus and Christians suffer due to skin colour.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.

Americans are thick so I doubt any of that will make a difference. Maybe in the event of a high profile incident where a Sikh is wrongfully targeted due to clear ignorance might do the trick; but of course you can't plan for that.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.

Americans are thick so I doubt any of that will make a difference. Maybe in the event of a high profile incident where a Sikh is wrongfully targeted due to clear ignorance might do the trick; but of course you can't plan for that.

The only way to be safe is to go the Bobby Jindal route.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.

Why are you against all the Muslims? Don't you know that how America run after our Oil? America is nothing without us
 
it's sad that i'm constantly being pulled up for 'random' tests at the airport but it is a necessary evil to protect us from radicalists who have been mind washed by religion. feel for the sikhs but it's a scary world we live in and if anything more tests and surveillance is needed.
 
It is sad, but I don't blame security guys here. What terrorists did will haunt us all.
 
Americans are thick so I doubt any of that will make a difference. Maybe in the event of a high profile incident where a Sikh is wrongfully targeted due to clear ignorance might do the trick; but of course you can't plan for that.

High profile incidents happen every year. Only last year or so a Sikh temple got ransacked

It doesn't matter even. These same people don't want Sikhs or Hindus or other coloured minorities either. Islamophobia just gives them an avenue or reason to air those thoughts
 
High profile incidents happen every year. Only last year or so a Sikh temple got ransacked

It doesn't matter even. These same people don't want Sikhs or Hindus or other coloured minorities either. Islamophobia just gives them an avenue or reason to air those thoughts

Not true in a way during the anti-Hindu or dotbuster history of racism till early 90's not much was done against Sikhs or Muslims also not a lot of people of other faith showed any interest to fight it.
There are records of how even the Jersey police was indifferent to reports, it was again Indian diaspora that fought against it.

Most Pakistanis or Muslim immigrants during then didn't even care about it as they were the fav people of Americans,Canadians then.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.

So instead of advocating that americans be educated full stop U advocate that they be educated on the diff between a muslim n siks so they can carry on with their hate specifically towards muslims only?

Well done Showing your class there
 
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How many muslims wear turban abroad ? 0.00001% yet to see one, feeling sorry for sikh pajis! america can be an ignorant place.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.
Good luck with that.
Especially in America. When me and my family were in the States (and facial features wise, we look like typical Pakistani's from Punjab), we were often asked if we were from Cuba or some other parts of South America :))

By the way, have you heard of a Pakistani (and dual British) national, Pakistani born, looking like like a typical Indian/Pakistani, going by the name Nazir-Ali?

Oh, he happened to be the former 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England, and is currently the Visiting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, USA.

There goes your 'Muslim name' and 'looks' logic.
 
Good luck with that.
Especially in America. When me and my family were in the States (and facial features wise, we look like typical Pakistani's from Punjab), we were often asked if we were from Cuba or some other parts of South America :))

By the way, have you heard of a Pakistani (and dual British) national, Pakistani born, looking like like a typical Indian/Pakistani, going by the name Nazir-Ali?

Oh, he happened to be the former 106th Bishop of Rochester in the Church of England, and is currently the Visiting Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, USA.

There goes your 'Muslim name' and 'looks' logic.

The Americans were easily able to distinguish the Hindu from the Muslims till 1991 randomly assaulting Indian ladies with Bindis so erm yeah may be its more than race.
 
The Americans were easily able to distinguish the Hindu from the Muslims till 1991 randomly assaulting Indian ladies with Bindis so erm yeah may be its more than race.
Were there significant numbers of Indian/Pakistani Muslims living in the same communities as the Hindu's were living in?

If yes, then I find it difficult to see how the average American would be able to distinguish between SC Muslims and SC Hindu's nowadays never mind during the period you're referring to. Sikhs would be an exception of course due to the turban.

If no, then the question doesn't even arise.
 
Americans are thick so I doubt any of that will make a difference. Maybe in the event of a high profile incident where a Sikh is wrongfully targeted due to clear ignorance might do the trick; but of course you can't plan for that.

Well, its the case of Britain as well. May be not as explicit as Americans but all brown skin people are looked with a sense of distress. I was sporting a beard just for style to imitate Virat Kohli looks. Then Paris attack happened. As I went out next day, I got vibes of many "ewww" looks here and there. Came back home and went back to clean shaven state.
 
Were there significant numbers of Indian/Pakistani Muslims living in the same communities as the Hindu's were living in?

If yes, then I find it difficult to see how the average American would be able to distinguish between SC Muslims and SC Hindu's nowadays never mind during the period you're referring to. Sikhs would be an exception of course due to the turban.

If no, then the question doesn't even arise.

1987-1993 New Jersey. No one came to help Indians but the Indian diaspora itself.
 
1987-1993 New Jersey. No one came to help Indians but the Indian diaspora itself.
But that still doesn't answer the question as to whether they were simply picking on 'brown faces' (even accepting your assertion that they were targeting Hindus) because they thought they were all Hindus, or whether there were significant numbers of Indian/Pakistan Muslims living in the same communities such that, somehow, the racists were able to distinguish between the Hindus and Muslims amongst them.
 
Well, at least none of us were alive when Iranians or even Iranian-looking people were assaulted in the wake of the Iranian hostage crisis.
 
But that still doesn't answer the question as to whether they were simply picking on 'brown faces' (even accepting your assertion that they were targeting Hindus) because they thought they were all Hindus, or whether there were significant numbers of Indian/Pakistan Muslims living in the same communities such that, somehow, the racists were able to distinguish between the Hindus and Muslims amongst them.

They were targetting anyone wearing a Bindi and the group was called dotbusters.
 
They were targetting anyone wearing a Bindi and the group was called dotbusters.
OK. So they knew the significance of Bindi and hence were targeting SC looking women wearing a Bindi. Doesn't sound like something that a typical American would know the significance of. Any idea why these 'dotbusters' were doing this or who they were? Sounds like a vendetta of some sort, with the revenge taken out on the Hindu community as a whole. Perhaps you could shed more light on this as I've not come across this previously.
 
OK. So they knew the significance of Bindi and hence were targeting SC looking women wearing a Bindi. Doesn't sound like something that a typical American would know the significance of. Any idea why these 'dotbusters' were doing this or who they were? Sounds like a vendetta of some sort, with the revenge taken out on the Hindu community as a whole. Perhaps you could shed more light on this as I've not come across this previously.

Bascially the Gujrathi community i think was the target but then it expanded, i came to know only from Gujrathis living in jersey and ny.


JERSEY CITY, Oct. 11— For weeks now, Lalitha Masson has found herself standing before her open bedroom closet, filled with a bitter resignation.

Since the attacks on this community's Indians began last month, the soft-spoken gynecologist who emigrated to the United States 21 years ago has had to put aside the traditional Indian saris she adores and wear Western-style dress in public instead.

In Jersey City, she says, a sari's glimmering silk is likely to make any woman who wears it a target for harassment. She has even abandoned her bindi - the small cosmetic dot worn on the forehead of most Indian women. Violence Has Become Uglier

For years, Indians living in blue-collar enclaves here have been taunted with ethnic epithets by white, black and Hispanic youths, according to the city's Indian leadership and many other people here.

But in recent weeks, Indians here say, the violence has taken on a new and uglier cast. One Jersey City Indian was beaten to death in Hoboken. Another remains in a coma after being discovered beaten unconscious on a busy street corner here earlier this month. And in a crudely handwritten letter, partially printed in The Jersey Journal, someone wrote, ''We will go to any extreme to get Indians to move out of Jersey City.'' The note was signed ''The Dotbusters.''


Source :http://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/12/nyregion/in-jersey-city-indians-protest-violence.html

The complete article is 2 pages so haven't posted it completely.
Also the attack strengthened the Hindu community later on with a functioning Hindu Caucus .
 
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[MENTION=137142]JaDed[/MENTION] Thanks for above. Having read the whole article, it would seem as if the (mainly young) thugs attacking the Hindus were using the (increasingly successful) Indian community as scapegoats for their own shortcomings and their own failures. It has parallels with the skinheads and The National Front in England during the 70's and 80's.
 
[MENTION=137142]JaDed[/MENTION] Thanks for above. Having read the whole article, it would seem as if the (mainly young) thugs attacking the Hindus were using the (increasingly successful) Indian community as scapegoats for their own shortcomings and their own failures. It has parallels with the skinheads and The National Front in England during the 70's and 80's.

Sounds no different from the expulsion of Indians from Uganda.
 
[MENTION=137142]JaDed[/MENTION] Thanks for above. Having read the whole article, it would seem as if the (mainly young) thugs attacking the Hindus were using the (increasingly successful) Indian community as scapegoats for their own shortcomings and their own failures. It has parallels with the skinheads and The National Front in England during the 70's and 80's.

Yes something similar to that.
 
Americans are thick so I doubt any of that will make a difference. Maybe in the event of a high profile incident where a Sikh is wrongfully targeted due to clear ignorance might do the trick; but of course you can't plan for that.

Sikhs, Muslims, Arabs, Persians and anyone that looks Middle Eastern are targets. "Indians" get away with it cause they are Hindus, they have Yogas and have Kamasutra. But Turban = Osama Bin Laden/Muslim/Persian/Iraq/Afghanistan and so on . Average Americans aren't the brightest, their media controlled by big corporates brain wash them like no tomorrow. Same corporate that manufactures weapons fund FOX,CNN, Obama, Bush and so on. So at the end of the day the more hype = more excuse to bomb people which = to more money. Can't expect much from Americans. In our universities, schools we learn about their mess, make fun of them. Nothing is too surprising in US.
 
Sounds no different from the expulsion of Indians from Uganda.
A vast amount of difference actually. The expulsion from Uganda (and Kenya) was done by the state, whereas the activities of the skinheads, National Front, these 'Dotbusters' and such like are against the values and the principles of the (vast majority) of the host communities, as well as being against the law of the land.
 
A vast amount of difference actually. The expulsion from Uganda (and Kenya) was done by the state, whereas the activities of the skinheads, National Front, these 'Dotbusters' and such like are against the values and the principles of the (vast majority) of the host communities, as well as being against the law of the land.

Can you also state that it was done by the state with the complicity of the people? It's not like the Ugandan people were opposed to ridding Indians from Uganda because of economic superiority either.
 
A vast amount of difference actually. The expulsion from Uganda (and Kenya) was done by the state, whereas the activities of the skinheads, National Front, these 'Dotbusters' and such like are against the values and the principles of the (vast majority) of the host communities, as well as being against the law of the land.
Asians weren't expelled from Kenya.
 
Asians weren't expelled from Kenya.
Technically speaking you are correct, Asians were not 'expelled from Kenya'. They were simply forced to leave of their own accord due to new laws which made it extremely difficult for them to make a living, get jobs or to own businesses.


1968: More Kenyan Asians flee to Britain

Another 96 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya have arrived in Britain today, the latest in a growing exodus of Kenyan Asians fleeing from laws which prevent them making a living.

The party included nine children under two, and all flew in on cut-price one-way tickets costing about £60 - less than half the normal single fare.

Omar Sharmar, an Indian who was forced to close his haulage business in Mombasa when the government refused to grant him a licence, estimates he has lost £2,000.


At the present rate I think this will continue for at least a year, if not more

Kenyan airline official
"Only Kenyan citizens are being allowed work permits," he said. "I was forced to sell my fleet of lorries and come to Britain to look for a new life."

An airline official in Nairobi estimated that the charter flights had taken between 1,200 and 1,500 Kenyan Asians in to Britain.

"We did find some difficulty filling the planes until last week," he said.

"But in the last two or three days that attitude has changed, and there doesn't seem to be any difficulty at all now. At the present rate I think this will continue for at least a year, if not more."

Immigration laws in Kenya are becoming increasingly draconian. Foreigners can only hold a job until a Kenyan national can be found to replace them: and more and more cities, including Nairobi, are demanding that the government bans non-Kenyans from owning a shop or trading in municipal markets.

If the Kenyan government caves in to such demands, the result is likely to be chaos, as most shops are owned by foreigners, and not enough citizens have the capital or knowledge to run small businesses.

Already, the tens of thousands of Asians, who have until now dominated commerce, industry and most key jobs in the country, are finding their lives made impossible.

Although most turned down the chance to take Kenyan nationality when it was offered to them, more than 100,000 did take up the chance to get British passports.

They are now arriving at the rate of more than 1,000 a month to start a new life in the UK, a country which most have never seen.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/4/newsid_2738000/2738629.stm
 
Technically speaking you are correct, Asians were not 'expelled from Kenya'. They were simply forced to leave of their own accord due to new laws which made it extremely difficult for them to make a living, get jobs or to own businesses.
Many stayed behind and adopted Kenyan citizenship though, today there's still up to 100,000 South Asians there. It's not like Uganda where 99% of them left.
 
Many stayed behind and adopted Kenyan citizenship though, today there's still up to 100,000 South Asians there. It's not like Uganda where 99% of them left.
But my point still holds as can be seen by the BBC quote in my previous post.
 
‘Would You Feel Safe?’ Passenger Films Sleeping Sikh Man On Flight To California

SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A disturbing YouTube video of an elderly Sikh passenger sleeping on a Jet Blue flight from New York to California has alarmed human rights advocates.

The forty-second clip is captioned, “Would you feel safe? Flying With Bin Laden.” The man filming makes no effort to hide his face, and on occasion smiles, as though he is taking a clever selfie.

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United Sikhs, an organization that is working to quell anti-Sikh hostility is working to get the video removed from YouTube.

“No one, Sikh, Muslim, or otherwise should be afraid to travel. These types of incidents only weaken the fabric of our nation,” said staff attorney Jaspreet Kaur in a press statement.

The man sleeping in the video is Darshan Singh of California. According to United Sikhs, Singh “recalls his Jetblue flight from New York to California in November as unremarkable. He didn’t exchange words with the man sitting next to him, and was surprised when he saw the video of himself online.”

Sikhs are not Muslim, but since the September 11 attacks, the men have been the targets of anti-Muslim sentiments and hate-crimes because of their distinctive turban (Dastar) and beard.

So far, the YouTube video of Singh has over gotten more than 63,000 views.

http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...leeping-sikh-man-on-flight-from-ny-ca-flight/

Absolutely ridiculous. The video description reads "flying with Bin Laden". What a dummy.
 
Can't blame the Americans here, the truth is anyone wearing a turban and beard will look like bin Laden to the average American joe. Why can't Sikhs dress like everyone else rather than insist on wearing their eastern clothing like a badge of honour? American Pakistanis seem to have done a much more admirable job of integrating.
 
News stories like this make my day. Bit of irony and karma rolled into one big exposure of intrinsic virulent hatred of Muslims amongst Sikhs and Hindus.
 
Muslims have made life difficult not only for themselves but also for everyone sharing the same brown skin color. Hindus and Sikhs need to organize community programmes where the Americans can be educated on the differences between them and Muslims . Some initiative has to be taken to help the majority easily differentiate between Mandirs and Mosques.

Americans can not be educated this shows regardless of anything they just see beared that's it which is shame because beared is religious for both of the religions
 
Clerk survives after gunman calls him a terrorist and blasts his face

A Michigan liquor store clerk fought back after a robber shoved a rifle into his mouth and called him a terrorist.

The gunman demanded money from the clerk, who is of Indian descent, and led him just before midnight Saturday into a back room at Bottlenecks Food and Drink Shop in Grand Rapids, reported WXMI-TV.

The 34-year-old clerk said the gunman accused him of being part of the Islamic State militant group and called him a “terrorist.”

“I used to kill people like you in Iraq with no problem,” the gunman said, and shoved the barrel of the gun into the clerk’s mouth.

The clerk, whose name is Tony, grabbed the rifle just before the gunman pulled the trigger and was shot in the cheek.

The masked gunman, who was described as a black man about 6 feet tall, fired two more shots before running away with an undetermined amount of cash.

Tony called for help on his cell phone because the robber destroyed the store’s phone, and he is expected to survive his wounds.

Both police and the store’s owners said the clerk responded bravely to the gunman — who the owner’s daughter believes targeted the employee, who is Punjabi, because of his ethnicity.

“It could’ve happened to anyone that looks like us,” said Gurleen Kaur, who is also of Indian descent.

She doesn’t understand why the gunman, who hurled ethnic slurs at the clerk throughout the robbery, associated the clerk with terrorism.

Her father, Inderjit Singh, has owned the party supply store for five years.

“We’re Americans,” Kaur said. “We’re trying to live normal lives, be Americans.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/cle...-face-i-used-to-kill-people-like-you-in-iraq/
 
12-Year-Old Sikh Boy Arrested After Classmate Accuses Him of Carrying a Bomb

The latest victim of Islamophobia is a 12-year-old Sikh boy in Arlington, Texas.

Armaan Singh Sarai, a student at Nichols Junior High School in Arlington with a heart condition, was arrested and jailed for three days based on a bully’s accusation that he had a bomb in his backpack. Nichols principal Julie Harcrow immediately called police, who searched Armaan’s backpack and determined there was no bomb. Despite that fact, Armaan was detained for three days at a juvenile detention facility. Neither police nor the school informed Armaan’s parents where he was being held.

Armaan’s cousin, Ginee Haer, described the ordeal in a Facebook post that has since gone viral:

"Worried & frightened at home, his family was concerned as to why he had not reached home right after school. They started calling every police department in the area, only to find out he was sent to a Juvenile facility. They kept him held behind bars for three consecutive days, before finally releasing him on Monday, December 15th."

Haer also expressed frustration at the way her cousin was treated, given his medical history. Even though Armaan is just 12 years old, he’s endured three open heart surgeries due to an undisclosed heart condition Haer said he was born with.

“My cousin is a minor and was arrested without any evidence or guardian present! This should show you how ****** up the system is!” Haer wrote. “There are good people out there, but the majority of the system is corrupt! All these ******** see is race & the color of your skin!”

However, according to the Arlington police, Armaan told his bully that he had a bomb in his backpack, which police say he later admitted to falsely claiming.

“People have got to learn they cannot make these types of threats which cause alarm, which cause evacuations,” Arlington Police Department spokesman Lt. Christopher Cook told the Dallas Morning News. “Just because you say it’s a joke, it doesn’t get you out of trouble.”

But in an email to Principal Harcrow, Armaan’s older brother, Aksh Singh, pointed out that Armaan and other students had been joking about bomb threats, yet Armaan was the only one arrested.

“My little brother Armaan Singh, 12 years of age, a loved kid by many was taken from school to Kimbo Juvenile center because he AND other students were joking about bomb threats,” Singh wrote. “I know we live in a time where such an accusation is serious, but this is outrageous and I demand a justified reason for why a 12-year-old INDIAN boy was taken into police custody and sent to a jail.”

http://usuncut.com/news/sikh-boy-arrested-dallas/
 
Sick of some people rejoicing over the targeting of innocent Sikhs.
 
News stories like this make my day. Bit of irony and karma rolled into one big exposure of intrinsic virulent hatred of Muslims amongst Sikhs and Hindus.

You sound like a typical Middle Eastern Christian who has a serious axe to grind against Muslims. Like you, they too cheer whenever Muslims suffer "poetic justice" to make up for the sufferings they encountered under a Muslim majority.

Two wrongs don't make it right. You, sir, are worse than Hitler.

P.S. Change your last name, don't ruin the Rizvi name like Syed Rizwan Farook did with the Syed name.
 
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