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India reacts with grief, outrage over Wisconsin killing of Sikhs
LA Times ^ | August 6, 2012

Posted on 08/06/2012 9:14:56 AM PDT by ravager

NEW DELHI -- India reacted with grief and outrage at the news that at least six Sikhs were killed when a gunman attacked them Sunday in their Wisconsin temple as they prayed and prepared food. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, himself a Sikh, said in a statement Monday that he was shocked and saddened by the news and extended his condolences to the families of the victims.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: india; sikh; wadepage
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To: ravager

Oh I see, you’re nothing but a race baiter and liar. You are not worth my time, whatever color you are.


51 posted on 08/06/2012 2:04:53 PM PDT by beandog (All Aboard the Choo Choo Train to Crazy Town)
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To: beandog

I have the same opinion about you. We dont need to have a conversation. Have a good one.


52 posted on 08/06/2012 2:12:26 PM PDT by ravager
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
“And no, they don’t have a ‘legitimate grievance’ against the US because of what happened.”

I don't think you speak for the Sikhs. They have already voiced their opinion and quite clearly against numerous instances of killing and racially motivated assaults post 9/11. Too bad you don't like the sound of it.

53 posted on 08/06/2012 2:18:11 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

I could understand this anger if the US Government or the public as a whole supported these acts, but they don’t. They are carried out by the occasional moron or lunatic who is either killed at the scene, or quickly apprehended and punished to the full extent of the law.

So again, tell me why it is justified that these Sikhs whip themselves up into a frenzy and start ripping up US flags and chanting anti-american slogans because of the actions of a few ignorant and/or unbalanced individuals. These people aren’t doing their fellow co-religionists any favours, because as we have already seen in this thread, many Americans will see what these people are doing, and simply consign them to the ‘angry raghead loser’ category and lose any sympathy they might have had for them...


54 posted on 08/06/2012 2:29:44 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
The fact that you, in two different posts, have referred to them as “towelheads” or “raghead” is good enough reason for them to voice their anger against the general bias and contempt people have for Sikhs/Indians.

And what you choose to see as isolated incidents carried out by a few ignorant individual, they see it as a targeted hate crime activity by a very well organized group. Sikhs are warriors, they dont live off people's mercy or sympathy to worry about what Americans will consign them to.

55 posted on 08/06/2012 2:55:28 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

I am using the word ‘towelhead’ not for what I think of them, but as a representation of what a lot of Americans will think of them when they see scenes like that depicted in the photo. Many already can’t make the distinction between Sikh and Muslim, they will simply conflate both groups in the same category, i.e. ‘angry ragheads’ and dismiss them.

As for your last paragraph, you seem to be justifying their stupidity and willful ignorance if they think that what has happened is ‘targeted hate crime activity by a very well organized group’ when it blindly obvious to any impartial observer that that is not the case. So why are you justifying their stupidity?


56 posted on 08/06/2012 3:26:20 PM PDT by sinsofsolarempirefan
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To: sinsofsolarempirefan
And i am telling you, they are perfectly fine with that characterization. They are perfectly fine being towel head or raghead. In fact they're proud of it. Those who have trouble making the distinction with Muslims are the morons. Not them.

And I don't think it's stupidity or willful ignorance. I think they are perfectly correct in their assessment.

57 posted on 08/06/2012 4:09:07 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager
At least when Indians do “sectarian violence” they recognize their real enemy, not kill random people with beard and turban.

I'm guessing you are young enough not to remember the 1984 anti-Sikh massacres. Some estimates put the deaths near 20,000.

Isn't it enough to be disgusted by this violence where ever it occurs?

58 posted on 08/06/2012 4:19:11 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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To: Straight Vermonter
Some estimates puts its to 20,000??! That must be some very special estimates.
So i guess that means it's ok it kill Sikhs. That settles it then!
59 posted on 08/06/2012 4:44:05 PM PDT by ravager
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To: Straight Vermonter
Some estimates puts its to 20,000??! That must be some very special estimates.
So i guess that means it's ok it kill Sikhs. That settles it then!
60 posted on 08/06/2012 4:44:32 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

Sorry. Just not going to lectured on religious tolerance by people who routinely slaughter each other in the hundreds and thousands.


61 posted on 08/07/2012 4:50:39 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak

Well get used to it. US lectures other countries on “religious us freedom”. Now its time to practice some of that. And very soon US might have a large Muslim population like India. You might be needing more “advice” from India.


62 posted on 08/07/2012 5:42:23 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

I was just pointing out what the left’s typical reaction would be. I don’t know what this a-clown’s affiliation is, do they still allow the gnazie party to exist?


63 posted on 08/07/2012 5:50:27 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Spriiingtime for islam, and tyranny. Winter for US and frieeends. . .)
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To: ravager

Bullshit. One lone nut went crazy. When the various ragheads can go a decade or two without a Pogrom, I’ll maybe pay them some mind, until then they can just STFU.


64 posted on 08/07/2012 5:57:41 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak
So you are basically say the number of dead “ragheads” not big enough for you yet to give sh!t. (Although I am guessing had it been one dead Whitey you would have been singing a different tune.)

At least in the violence in India, they take on the real muzzies, terrorists and trouble makers, not kill random innocents just because "they look different". You already have got plenty “lone nuts” around. Would be good to start taking India's advise. That way at least your stupid people can figure out correctly who the f*** to kill.

65 posted on 08/07/2012 7:02:09 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

You can’t make a cogent reasonable argument, so F##f Off.
Have a nice day.


66 posted on 08/08/2012 4:25:38 AM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak
Why donchya take your own advise and f*** off. Never had any use for your posts anyways.
67 posted on 08/08/2012 6:29:45 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

These idiots should not move here then. Loads of people get shot and killed here each years. Black, Mexican, white. Sikhs got shot up just like everybody else. Join the club you turbaned clowns. And while you are at it stop dressing like Muslim. You confuse us and when one of our crazies wants to shoot up a mosque he might shoot up your place instead


68 posted on 08/08/2012 11:31:28 AM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: dennisw

” You confuse us”

Not our fault if your kind comes without brain cells. If we confuse you, go pick up a damn book, get some freaking education. So you can tell what a mosque looks like before you start shooting at shit.


69 posted on 08/08/2012 11:44:22 AM PDT by ravager
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To: dennisw

If others were just as dense as you, they would be shooting at every blad whiteys on the street mistaking them for skinheads.


70 posted on 08/08/2012 11:52:52 AM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

Please describe what was “right wing” about this nutcase.

You’ve bought a primary Big Lie of the Left is my take on your statement.


71 posted on 08/08/2012 11:59:57 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ravager

I’ve been here longer if anyone leaves its you newb


72 posted on 08/08/2012 12:05:57 PM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak

Its my thread. You are free to leave.


73 posted on 08/08/2012 12:41:12 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

all you idiots need to do is to STOP WEARING TURBINES that make you look Muslim!!! So that your place of worship gets shot up. Is this to much to ask?

(/sarc)


74 posted on 08/08/2012 12:41:28 PM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: ravager

India hates us now??? Grab a number and get in line!


75 posted on 08/08/2012 12:43:56 PM PDT by dennisw (Government be yo mamma - Re-elect Barack Obama)
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To: dennisw

I thought once the Eeeeeeevil Boooooosh was out of office the world would love us again.


76 posted on 08/08/2012 12:47:13 PM PDT by dfwgator (FUJR (not you, Jim))
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To: FreedomPoster
From everything I have read or heard in the news, this guys has been described as an “extremist right wing” by almost everyone.

I maybe wrong but If you have anything different, I would love to hear. Along with whatever evidence you may have.

77 posted on 08/08/2012 12:48:21 PM PDT by ravager
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To: dennisw

If you cant tell turban from turbines, then you might as well start shooting at every sh!t out there. Eventually everything/everyone will look Muslim.


78 posted on 08/08/2012 1:01:02 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

Assertion by left wing media isn’t much of an argument for calling him “right wing”.

You’re the one buying and attempting to further the assertion that he is somehow “right wing”. I’ve challenged the assertion; the burden of proof is on those making that assertion. You haven’t provided much in the way of an argument that he was in any way “right wing”.

Did he believe in individual rights, limited government, and personal property rights?

What made him an “extreme right winger”? Other than the media making him so by assertion, and thereby smearing conservatives, that is. Which is the whole point of them labeling him thus. So why are you doing it?


79 posted on 08/08/2012 1:04:56 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: jessduntno
Are they suggesting a cop in every church, synagogue, mosque? Or are they just stupid? Stick a handgun under one of those turbans boys, you’ll be able to defend yourselves. Or do you have a “let’s all be sheep in the pen for the wolves” no handgun policy?

You're right - there aren't enough policemen - or money to hire more - to have them acting a private body guards. We all need to protect ourselves and count on the police to collect evidence after the crime to secure a conviction.

80 posted on 08/08/2012 1:13:24 PM PDT by GOPJ (..convinced if you put a compass in the hands of a liberal, it will point south -Fr Neveronmywatch)
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To: FreedomPoster
You have challenged the assertion? How exactly?

“Right wing terrorist” is the word used by a former Department of Homeland security analyst and federal investigators. Plus several news media have described him in similar terms and I am quoting on their authority.

Individual rights and personal property rights are guaranteed by the constitution and have nothing to do with left or right.

If you are challenging the assertion then you better have something more then mere words.

81 posted on 08/08/2012 1:51:56 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

So you have appeal to authority? That’s your argument? From officials in a Leftist Administration who are all about smearing the political right, by association?

Look, logical fallacies in argumentation do not constitute an argument.

You have made an assertion that this guy was “right wing”. What were his beliefs that make him so? You are standing on naked assertion and appeal to authority at the moment, and I continue to call BS.

And further, the modern Left shows again and again they spit on various aspects of our Constitution.

You aren’t really getting this, are you?


82 posted on 08/08/2012 2:12:09 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster
Yes lets just say that's my argument. I at least have the news media to back up my assertion.
As for his belief ......we both know right wingers are anti-immigrant and so was he.... From his selective targeting of an ethnic immigrant minority.

And what have you got so far?
Nothing but just garbage rhetoric.

83 posted on 08/08/2012 2:27:56 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

You’re not at the right site, are you? You are not a conservative, that is.

The news media *is* garbage rhetoric is the point that you’re not getting. And you continue to not make anything resembling an argument to support your assertion. I know it is hard, the schools don’t teach that very much these days.

And the right wing is anti-ILLEGAL-immigrant. But since you apparently buy the swill that the news media are dishing out, without thought, you believe their line that the right is anti-immigrant.

Seriously, learn to think for yourself and to question raw assertion. Get to underlying facts. There are precious few in the articles and statements being made propagandizing this horrible event.

Oh, and on the general subject of Sikhs - I was in favor of recruiting a Sikh regiment similar to the Gurkahs in the wake of 9/11. But I guess that just makes me an anti-immigrant right wing racist.


84 posted on 08/08/2012 2:48:06 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster
There are only 250 thousand Sikhs in US. You can get some recruits but not an entire “Sikhs regiment” out 250 thousand people. India has Sikh regiment and the Punjab regiment and there are 20 million Sikhs in India.

I kinda belong to the same ethnic minority group as the victims of Wisconsin. I have lived in US for more then half my life. I have a very good idea what kind of immigrants the right wingers are against. I know THAT first hand whatever else I may or may not know. I don't need the media to tell me that.

I don't go around wearing the “conservative” badge like you or care for measuring up to your standards, but I am pro-life, small govt, lower taxes, right to bear arms, lower regulations, free market,pro nuclear energy,pro-Israel, anti-Arab/Muslim and anti-PRC. And I was a huge fan of Bush.

There are still plenty of things I know about right wingers from personal experience that I am honestly not fond of. The media has nothing to do with that.

85 posted on 08/08/2012 3:25:25 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

Why would I have limited that recruitment to the U.S.? I’m in favor of legal immigration, remember.

I’m sorry you’ve had bad experiences. I still have seen nothing that makes this guy “right wing” other than raw assertion by people with an agenda.

Oh, and you were doing really good up until the Bush part. ;-P
Lots better than what we have now, but no one to be a huge fan over.


86 posted on 08/08/2012 3:42:20 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster
Bush did what no other President ever did for India. He may have his flaws but he is still my favorite president ......ever!
87 posted on 08/08/2012 3:53:48 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager
The Wisconsin madman's body count comes nowhere near to that of these Sikh madmen...

Air India Flight 182

88 posted on 08/08/2012 4:08:28 PM PDT by kanawa
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To: ravager

Your thread? I thought FR belonged to Jim Robinson. I think I’ll say whatever I want. Try and stop me. Newb.


89 posted on 08/08/2012 5:50:18 PM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak

Our conversation is long over. So just get lost.


90 posted on 08/08/2012 6:03:46 PM PDT by ravager
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To: ravager

More Indians die riding the train. Why don’t they go protest that.


91 posted on 08/08/2012 6:08:27 PM PDT by rabidralph
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To: Kozak

Kind of an uppity troll isn’t he?


92 posted on 08/09/2012 12:19:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: TigersEye

I think his turban is wound too tight.


93 posted on 08/09/2012 3:07:23 PM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: ravager

What conversation? I’m the only one capable of rational thought. Takes two sentient beings to have a conversation. I’m just teasing the troll.


94 posted on 08/09/2012 3:09:49 PM PDT by Kozak (The means of defence against foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home JM)
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To: Kozak

He’s pining for the serene city life of Mumbai.


95 posted on 08/09/2012 3:16:13 PM PDT by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)
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To: jessduntno
A cop in each place won't help. There are two possibilities: one, that the guy didn't know that Sikhs are different from Mozzies -- in that case better education would help and that's what the Sikh community should do
two, that the guy KNEW, but hated them 'cause they weren't white. In that case, the problem is that very little can be done against a lone-ranger idiot.
96 posted on 08/21/2012 5:12:12 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: ravager; TigersEye

I disagree. remember that the Sikhs murdered here were Americans.


97 posted on 08/21/2012 5:13:13 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: TigersEye; ari-freedom; ravager
Tiger: The Sikhs here were killed by a madman not someone of a major religion or cultural sect of America. --> exactly. that guy by no means represents American views. These protests are senseless if you think about it -- if some crazy dude in Amritsar kills an American, it can be blamed on that guy, not all of India, not even all Sikhs. At the most one can ask if the cops were around. In this case a cop tried to help. But there's no way to stop a madman like this completely I'm sorry.
98 posted on 08/21/2012 5:16:13 AM PDT by Cronos (**Marriage is about commitment, cohabitation is about convenience.**)
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To: Cronos

There are nuts in the world and I’m afraid that’s the way it is. We’re not protesting CA here in CO because of that movie theater killer.


99 posted on 08/21/2012 7:55:51 AM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: Cronos
Let me repeat my last post from another thread..... Nope. Very likely among them there were permanent residents, dual citizens, foreign student, guest workers, immigrant or non-immigrant aliens, Non-resident Indians and Person of Indian origin. Irrespective of their status, they all have families back home in India and Indians have a genuine cause concern. Your attempt to hide behind their “supposed citizenship status” is just BS.
100 posted on 08/21/2012 2:06:40 PM PDT by ravager
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