Columbia University professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh is out of the hospital and on the mend today after a weekend attack in which he was ambushed by a mob of approximately 20 young men in East Harlem. In addition to teaching courses at Columbia, Singh is also a practicing physician in Harlem.
The attackers condemned Dr. Singh as a “terrorist” and called him Osama during the attack, and police say they are operating under the assumption that the attackers had mistaken the professor, a Sikh, for a Muslim. Naturally, assaulting a Muslim is just as illegal as assaulting a Sikh.
Dr. Singh had co-written an op-ed in the New York Times only last year expressing concern about the number of violent attacks against America’s Sikh minority, saying at the time that the official assumption all such attacks were based on “mistaken identity” was keeping the government from even attempting to measure anti-Sikh violence in the US.
Bizarrely, though the NYPD released surveillance footage of the attack and issued a statement about what they assume was the motivation, there was no indication that anyone has been arrested over the attack.
Kudos to the professor for keeping a long beard and putting on the head gear in these turbulent times.
I wonder what the reaction would have been if the victim was a guy wearing a yarlmuke? World War III, surely.
Ignorance hath no fury like Boobus Americanus on an anti-Muslim spree.
I'm sure Herr Bloomberg will have his military wing, Anti-Muz Division, do an investigation as to why so many people are instigating incidents that cause damage to the knuckles and feet of innocent New Yorkers.
Meanwhile, priorities!
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A year-long investigation by New York prosecutors has found 19 local businesses guilty of faking reviews on sites such as Google and Yelp, a practice that has now earned them over $350,000 in fines and penalties.
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The NYPD was probably over protecting the war criminal professor at CUNY, and can't be bothered with trying to keep a non-white, non-christian, non-war criminal from being physically assaulted.
And I bet his attackers were non-white too.
It was in Harlem–go figure.
The NYPD protects as much as the pharisees protected Jesus. He ended up on a cross. Pharisees hired a person to arrest Jesus. Police are hired by anti Christ religious people. How can it be any other way?
Actually, the Romans sent a cohort (600 troops) to arrest Jesus, and the Jewish supporters of his arrest were the Sadducees, not the Pharisees.
As an Indian I have no sympathy for Indians eho choose to travel to and live in the U.S. If you knowingly go into a nation where there’s an institutional bias against brown people as well as a staggering amount of ignorance about the world you deserve what you get. When said nation is also an imperialistic empire bent upon world domination, you’re a traitor to the rest of the planet earth if uou aid and abet it.
No one arrested because they all are The Right color
if being "odd looking" was a crime punishable by death, there wouldn't be many people left on the planet. No one should be attacked for having a certain amount of "quirk"
The Police are terroristic. The Sikh is peace loving. Police are soul dead. A dead soul fears for the body striking out at a perceived enemy. Police are like dangerous land mines. You never know when one will exploded.