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Sikh worker faces
severe racial attack
WSN Bureau
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Jasmir Singh
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RICHMOND HILL: As Barack Obama spoke about tempering
qualities of humility and restraint, 21-year-old Jasmir Singh, a
Sikh truck worker was dubbed “Osama” and was attacked a third time,
this time more viciously than on the previous two occasions. He may
lose vision in the left eye, which has been stabbed badly, while his
hair and beard were also pulled.
Sending shockwaves among hundreds of Sikhs who live in this
area, Jasmir Singh said that it was a racial attack and that his
friend who was not a Sikh, was left unharmed.
Recovering at the
Elmhurst Hospital
Center with a score of stitches on his left eye, Jasmir Singh, who
was attacked near a grocery store at Jackson Heights said that he
was taunted and abused.
According to last reports, two of the suspected attackers
have been detained and the police is on the lookout for a third one.
Jasmir’s father, Jiwan Singh summed it all, “We voted for
Obama, but we are being dubbed Osama. Surely, we did not expect
this.”
20 December
2008
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