After 9/11, we had a guy from India in our community who owned a gas station. Apparently some low information types thought he was a Muslim because he put a sign in the window of the gas station that said “I’m Indian, Not Muslim.”
Think about the mental gymnastics if these guys were from Tbilisi(Georgia). :)
There was a lot of that confusion going on. I had to explain the difference to my kids and tell them the muslims haven’t been too kind to the Indians either.