Trump rally removes US Sikh |
A Sikh man in Iowa was removed from a rally held by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump Jan. 24. The man, who was wearing a bright red turban, was conducting a peaceful protest by displaying a banner that read "Stop Hate" when the GOP frontrunner began an anti-Muslim speech. It wasn`t long before the protester, who began his impromptu protest when Trump began speaking about the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, was ushered out of the rally. NBC News adds: One of the protesters — Arish Singh, a Sikh American man — responded to the incident on Jan. 24, tweeting, "I am not a Muslim. But you don`t have to be a Muslim to stand against anti-Muslim bigotry."Singh and another man were escorted out of the rally in Muscatine, Iowa, as members of the audience chanted, "USA!" "Mr. Trump`s denigration of a Sikh man falls within a larger pattern of negative statements against minority communities," The Sikh Coalition`s Simran Jeet Singh told NBC News. "Comments and actions such as these are especially dangerous given the sheer amount of hate violence that Sikh Americans are experiencing today. Every time he does something like this, it has negative consequences for Americans of all backgrounds."
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