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Anonymous asked in Society & CultureReligion & Spirituality · 8 years ago

Can YOU tell the difference between a Sikh and a Muslim?

Following 9/11, Muslims were discriminated against in the US, and violence was used against them by locals and even police.

Unfortunately, people mixed them up with Sikhs, which caused Americans to discriminate against Sikhs too, and even a Sikh man was beaten to death by a group of Americans because they thought he was Muslim!

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  • 8 years ago
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    Muslims do not wear Turbans and do not have mustache, beard yes but not mustache.

  • Most Muslims and 70% of Sikhs dont wear the turban in western countries I'm a sikh and i cut my hair. Only our last guru made it a rule to wear a turban gurus 1-9 didn't say anything about a turban. in america anyone with a turban is sikh. A sikh that cuts is hair is difficult to tell apart from a middle easterners. If you go to a gurudwara you would only see the priest elderly men and some religious men and children with turbans thats it. The reason why most sikhs cut their hair is because most employers dont allow turbans

    Source(s): Sikh boy
  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    There was a hell of a lot more than one Sikh murdered because moronic bigots thought they were Muslim and it hasn't stopped. The Sikh Temple massacre was only 4 months ago. There were 700 reported Sikh hate crimes c/o August 2012. Two weeks ago a psychopath pushed a Hindu in front of a NYC subway and killed him because she thought he was Muslim. If you're brown, you're fair game.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Yes i can thank you.

    And i don't think the issue is that the Americans beat up a Sikh instead of a Muslim more the fact that they are beating up anyone!

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  • 8 years ago

    Sikh men wear the turban, whereas Muslim men usually do not.

  • 8 years ago

    I wouldn't count on people who are dumb and bigoted enough to beat up Muslims for being Muslims to be able to distinguish between Muslims and Sikhs.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Yes, because as the joke goes they are either push-start or pull-start. JK The kirpan gives the Sikhs away.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Sikhs wear the turbans, and blah blah blah, why does it matter? I have no problem with either group.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I would probably confuse the two, but I don't vehemently hate either group, so it doesn't really matter that much.

  • 8 years ago

    Sihks don't cut their hair, and typically have the surname of Singh.

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