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A fantastic explanation of why so many Sikhs are protesting India’s Citizenship Amendment Act that unjustly targets Muslims.

Please watch and share. ✊🏾❤️✌🏾 #CAA_NRCProtests
A few points for those who don't understand Hindi.

- If Hindu nationalists are successful in removing Muslims today, it won't take any time before the same happens to others, including Sikhs.
- Modi's Hindu Nationalist Party (The BJP) openly states its intention to make India 'a Hindu nation.' This is wrong.

[Modi's strain of ethnic and religious nationalism is fanatical, exclusionary, and ultimately, violent]
- Sikhs experienced this same sort of targeting and state-led mob violence in 1984. There's no resolution to that violence to this day. If we don't hold them accountable for their anti-Muslim bill today, then what's stopping them from going after anyone else tomorrow?
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Simran Jeet Singh
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A racist in Wisconsin threw battery acid in a Latino man’s face after accusing him of being in the country illegally.

The victim, Mahud Villalaz, is a US citizen.

This is Trump’s America.
Sad that we even had to say this, but I guess we do. The violence would have been just as reprehensible if he didn’t happen to be a US citizen.

Someone who’s been on the receiving end of hate, I can say for certain: hate hurts us all.
Seven years ago, a white supremacist massacred a Sikh congregation in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

This week, just a few miles away, a racist spewed hate while attacking Latino American Mahud Villalaz.

When will we learn?
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Simran Jeet Singh
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A 16 yr-old runner finished a 5k race in Ohio with a new personal record — but was disqualified for wearing her hijab.

This is so wrong. Please ask the Ohio High School Athletic Association to update their discriminatory policy. Email webmaster@ohsaa.org
cnn.com/2019/10/24/us/…
I feel this on so many levels. We dealt with headwear policies in sports all the time. These rules are so ridiculous. Let me say this as someone who has run the New York City Marathon five times while wearing my turban. Rules like these are unnecessary, exclusionary, and outdated
In case you're struggling, feel free to copy and paste this to your email:

"Dear OHSAA, I was appalled to read the story of how you disqualified Noor Abukaram for wearing her hijab. It was wrong and hurtful, and we urge you to update your discriminatory policy immediately."
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Simran Jeet Singh
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Most who are critical of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's racist costume have taken two one of two positions: either it is in poor taste and unintentional or it is harmful and dehumanizing.

I think it’s both.

A short thread on stereotypes, supremacy, and Orientalism.
Edward Said's work, Orientalism, shows how European colonialism was founded on the principle that the Eastern peoples and cultures are inferior to and in need of saving by those of the west. The drive to colonize people around the world relied on this supremacist logic.
The emergent stereotypes – irrational, uncivilized, backwards – are products of Orientalist assumptions. And they are part of Orientalism’s legacy too. We continue to produce and reproduce these stereotypes over time and across cultures.
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1/n The NRC initially came about in 1951.
2/n Cut to the Bangladesh War in the 70s, when many immigrants moved to India, and there were protests.
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