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Hate Crime Is Charged in Attack on Sikh Boy
NY Times ^ | May 26, 2007 | CARA BUCKLEY

Posted on 05/27/2007 1:51:55 AM PDT by Sleeping Beauty

A teenager was charged with felony hate crimes yesterday, a day after he forced a 15-year-old Sikh schoolmate into a boys’ bathroom in Queens, tore off his turban and sheared his hair, the authorities said.

According to the Queens district attorney, Richard A. Brown, the teenager, Umair Ahmed, 17, walked up to the Sikh, Vacher Harpal, in a hallway at Newtown High School in Elmhurst shortly after noon on Thursday and said, “I have to cut your hair.” Mr. Ahmed was holding a pair of scissors, Mr. Brown said.

Vacher replied: “For what? It is against my religion,” according to Mr. Brown. Mr. Ahmed, who is of Pakistani descent, then displayed a ring inscribed with Arabic words, and said: “This ring is Allah. If you don’t let me cut your hair, I will punch you with this ring,” Mr. Brown said.

Mr. Ahmed then forced Vacher into a boys’ bathroom, and Vacher began crying as he removed his turban, begging Mr. Ahmed not to cut his waist-length hair, which, in accordance with the Sikh religion, had never been cut, Mr. Brown said.

But Mr. Ahmed cut Vacher’s hair to the neckline, then threw the hair into a toilet and onto the floor, Mr. Brown said. One student, who was not charged, stood at the bathroom door and acted as a lookout, the police said. Another student, a friend of Vacher’s, saw the attack, they said. The police said a teacher’s aide notified a school safety officer after being alerted by a student.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hatecrimes; india; islam; islamicsupremacist; islamonazism; itcanhappenhere; muslim; pakistan; religiousintolerance
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1 posted on 05/27/2007 1:51:57 AM PDT by Sleeping Beauty
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Remember when there were “hate crimes” against hippies?

“Beautify America: Get a hair cut.”


2 posted on 05/27/2007 2:00:17 AM PDT by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide (Give Them Liberty Or Give Them Death! - IT'S ISLAM, STUPID! - Islam Delenda Est! - Rumble thee forth)
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To: Sleeping Beauty
One student, who was not charged, stood at the bathroom door and acted as a lookout, the police said.

Not charged? Why not? What part of HATE CRIME don't they understand?

3 posted on 05/27/2007 2:01:41 AM PDT by dr_lew
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Our Government should get out of Pakistan and let India deal with it.


4 posted on 05/27/2007 2:03:15 AM PDT by familyop
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To: dr_lew
Not charged? Why not?

Because the prosecution does not want a conviction

If the prosecution wanted a conviction, they would have charged the lookout as an accomplice, and offered him a plea bargain in exchange for testimony

The prosecutors do not want to piss off the Muslims

5 posted on 05/27/2007 2:08:44 AM PDT by SauronOfMordor (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymLJz3N8ayI">Open Season</a> rocks)
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To: Americanexpat

If they are smart, they won’t piss off the Sikhs. They are good people, not looking for trouble, but collectively won’t stand for any crap.


8 posted on 05/27/2007 3:03:13 AM PDT by steve8714 ("A man needs a maid", my ass.)
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He had scissors. How about Assault with a Deadly Weapon? He used the threat of force to escort someone somwhere they didn’t want to go. How about Kidnapping? Right there that’s about 40 years he’d be looking at. This Hate Crime nonsense is absurd.

My heart does go out to Sikhs though, who have basically been a peaceful people for quite a long time, but get wrapped up with these Islamic monsters. Speaking of which, I’d love to show this Mohammedist punk my St. John’s class ring. I have a feeling it would do considerably more damage.


9 posted on 05/27/2007 3:07:51 AM PDT by FremontLives (The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn from the crow.)
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To: Sleeping Beauty
A “teenager” or a “Muslim teenager”, what politically correct reporting.

The fact that it was a Muslim is important to the story.

10 posted on 05/27/2007 4:02:54 AM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: steve8714
The Sikh’s are generally peaceful, but they are definitely not pacifist. I don’t know how many Sikhs there are in Queens, but I know they are very angry right now, and they have right to be.

I like Sikhs. They party hard, they have their own rules, they do not proselytize and have no problems with other religions for the most part. But as you said, collectively, they do not stand for any nonsense.

This is not going to stop here, by any means.

11 posted on 05/27/2007 4:06:30 AM PDT by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: FremontLives
This Hate Crime nonsense is absurd.

It sure is, besides everyone knows that only whites can hate anyway. :)

12 posted on 05/27/2007 4:16:10 AM PDT by Mark was here (Hard work never killed anyone, but why take the chance?)
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Well Mr. Harpel (and parents), it’s time to assimilate.


13 posted on 05/27/2007 4:34:28 AM PDT by gotribe ( I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution... - Grover Cleveland.)
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To: Ronin

Good.


14 posted on 05/27/2007 4:35:00 AM PDT by steve8714 ("A man needs a maid", my ass.)
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To: familyop

> Our Government should get out of Pakistan and let India deal with it.

A perfectly stupid idea if ever there was one.


15 posted on 05/27/2007 4:38:42 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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To: steve8714

> If they are smart, they won’t piss off the Sikhs. They are good people, not looking for trouble, but collectively won’t stand for any crap.

Extremely brave professional soldiers, well-decorated and thoroughly unfailingly loyal. Multiple VC recipients. And good friends to have: meddle with them at your abject peril.

And their food is good, and their hospitality is even better, if you are allowed the privilege of becoming their friends.


16 posted on 05/27/2007 4:46:10 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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To: Ronin

> The Sikh’s are generally peaceful, but they are definitely not pacifist.

They aren’t angels either. Sikh gangs have been quite active in the drug trade in Vancouver.

> I like Sikhs.

I do too, generally — and with all generalizations we must recognize that they do not hold universally true.


17 posted on 05/27/2007 4:51:10 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter
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To: familyop

Keep your friends close..... and your enemies ...CLOSER.


18 posted on 05/27/2007 6:53:31 AM PDT by Walkingfeather (u)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

Please enlighten us mortals, how exactly is the idea stupid.


19 posted on 05/27/2007 8:01:58 AM PDT by Gengis Khan
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To: Sleeping Beauty

Those Muslim boys are lucky they are in police custody, because if the Sikhs around there are like some of the Sikhs I have known, it won’t be their hair that gets sheared back.


20 posted on 05/27/2007 8:29:55 AM PDT by Popocatapetl
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