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Should cutting someone's hair be considered a hate crime?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070525/us_nm/crime_us...
A teenage boy in NY faces seven years in prison because he cut another boy's hair. Apparently, being a Sikh, part of his religion requires that he never cut his hair. So yes, it was an attack on his religion. However, I think it is a bit extreme that the boy should go to prison over something like this. The Sikh boy's religious rights were violated, but this case belongs in the civil courts, not the criminal courts.
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I disagree. This is very much a criminal act. First of all, the victim did not give consent. You can get someone charged with assault if they simply touch you without your permission. Assault is not just punching or hitting.
The teenage boy who cut the Sikh boys hair crossed the line BIG time. It is the Sikh boys constitutional right to not cut his hair due to religious beliefs.
I fully agree this is a hate crime. Coming from a culture myself (Ojibwe/Native American) in which long hair has spiritual significance, I'm siding with the Sikh victim.
Send the teenager who cut his hair to prison.
Source(s): former criminal defense investigator/trial assistant - ?Lv 44 years ago
you aren't to any extent further a legal professional, and till i'm a legal professional, i'm able to't provide an counseled answer. yet, off the accurate of my head i might want to assert that with the help of reducing that boy's hair the first boy did certainly carry out a hate crime. One might want to might want to instruct that the first boy did it in finished know-how of the Sikh boy's faith, and he might want to be sentenced to an identical volume of years in reformatory.
- JLv 41 decade ago
This is crazy and a waste of time for the courts. Whoever this teenager is. He should appeal his case in it's entirety to the US Supreme Court
- 1 decade ago
That little punk knew exactly what he was doing. This is America and we don't tolerate that. Sounds like something from Nazi Germany.
Put him in prison for a few years and let him think about it.
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- 1 decade ago
That's crazy. Seven years is unbelievable. He shouldn't even go to prison. I do believe he should be punished but not by doing time.
Source(s): My opinion - SW1Lv 61 decade ago
I don't agree with hate crime laws period. Hate crime laws are UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!! People should only be punished for the crimes they commit. NOT for thoughts that a jury thinks they had in their head. PLUS, there is always a double standard with who gets charged with them and who doesn't.
- 1 decade ago
Interesting. Libs think it is ok to wear Che symbols in front of people whose families were killed by communists.
