[Gay State Conservative]

I thought Sikhs only carried knives

I think that there's a fair amount of historical animosity between Sikhs and Hindus.Don't know where,if anywhere,moslems might fit into that mosaic.

[livius]

Muslims hate Sikhs (who are a syncretist group).

However, unless this guy was a Chechen or something, it sounds to me like another white nutcase who saw them wearing turbans and thought they were Muslims. Remember a Sikh was killed and others were beaten after 9/11.

I don’t know why, because Muslims generally don’t wear anything that looks remotely like a Sikh turban.

[James C. Bennett]

Sikhs were a community formed as a military response against Muslim rule in India and all the Sikh founders were / are Hindus, and Sikhs defended Hindu interests when they were threatened. Sikhism was recognized as a separate religion only recently.

A large proportion of the Indian military is lead by Sikhs.

The animosity you are referring to relates to a Pakistan-funded separatist movement which was quelled by Sikhs themselves.

[aruanan]

A witness told officers the shooter was a white male, with a heavy build, bald head and wearing a sleeveless T-shirt, Oak Creek Patch reported.

A product of our educational system that so focuses on superficial similarities that he can't distinguish between Sikhs and Muslim?

I think that there's a fair amount of historical animosity between Sikhs and Hindus.Don't know where,if anywhere,moslems might fit into that mosaic.

Sikhism comes out of the Hindu tradition. Sikhism is to Hinduism what, from a secularist religious evolutionary point of view, Christianity was to Judaism, what Mormonism is to Christianity, and what Islam was to both Christianity and Judaism.