Man Plows Truck Into Convenience Store Because He Believed Owners Were Muslim

[SummerMadness]

Convenience store cashier targeted in alleged hate crime: 'We're just trying to make a living'

The cashier of the convenience store damaged in an alleged hate crime said Tuesday the store has never had that type of problem before.

"We never thought anything like that, because everybody comes in, and they are nice," said Harjot Singh, a nephew of the owner. "This was the first ever incident to happen like that."

Singh said Chad Horsley, the Denham Springs man accused of driving his pickup truck through The Best Stop's front window Saturday night, was mistaken about the religious identity of the store's owners, who are Sikh not Muslim, as Horsley allegedly told police.

 

[archer75]

Maybe people who want to vandalize Muslim businesses should hate Sikhs, too. So they don't appear to have gotten it wrong.

 

[Snappy1]

Maybe people who want to vandalize Muslim businesses should hate Sikhs, too. So they don't appear to have gotten it wrong.

Now that's some proactive thinking right there.

 

[Go Braves]

The fellow who did that proves once again what a horrible combination hate & ignorance is. Bad enough on their own, worse combined.

 

[Rubiks]

Not only is he a bigot, he's a stupid bigot.

 

[JackRT]

A teacher colleague of mine was also the pundit (priest) of the local Hindu Temple, a renovated school building. Two days after 9/11 a group of punks set fire to it thinking it was Muslim.

 

[USincognito]

The Indian restaurant near my was owned by Sikhs and a few of the men wore turbans. After 9/11 they put up a sign saying that it was owned by proud Sikh Americans.

The fear and ignorance on the part of those who perpetrate these acts means that that terrorists were successful.

 

[Nithavela]

Their traditional weapon is called kirpan, not kukri (and certainly not gurka).

And sikh are generally forgiving, non-violent and kind people and not some kind of anti-muslim elite strike force...

 

[FreeinChrist]

MOD HAT

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[Ana the Ist]

Their traditional weapon is called kirpan, not kukri (and certainly not gurka).

And sikh are generally forgiving, non-violent and kind people and not some kind of anti-muslim elite strike force...

I only brought up the kukri because I thought he was confusing ghurkas with sihks.

 

[Nithavela]

I only brought up the kukri because I thought he was confusing ghurkas with sihks.

Doesn't matter, he's banned.

ANYWAY, back to the topic: very sad state of affairs that sikhs keep getting mistaken for muslims. Maybe they should try being less brown.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Doesn't matter, he's banned.

ANYWAY, back to the topic: very sad state of affairs that sikhs keep getting mistaken for muslims. Maybe they should try being less brown.

I know....It's shocking...is this the third time in a decade?

It's almost a problem.

 

[Nithavela]

I know....It's shocking...is this the third time in a decade?

It's almost a problem.

The actual problem is that anyone who looks foreign and has brown skin is potential target for anti-muslim discrimination, even if they are arabic christians, sikh or just particularly tanned people from a mediterranian background who happen to write math equations.

Math equations mistaken for Arabic? Why Italian professor was pulled off US airplane

It's an especially ignorant kind of ignorance on display here.

 

[Ana the Ist]

The actual problem is that anyone who looks foreign and has brown skin is potential target for anti-muslim discrimination, even if they are arabic christians, sikh or just particularly tanned people from a mediterranian background who happen to write math equations.

Math equations mistaken for Arabic? Why Italian professor was pulled off US airplane

It's an especially ignorant kind of ignorance on display here.

Hey, anyone white is a target for anti-white discrimination. Welcome to the world.

 

[SummerMadness]

The actual problem is that anyone who looks foreign and has brown skin is potential target for anti-muslim discrimination, even if they are arabic christians, sikh or just particularly tanned people from a mediterranian background who happen to write math equations.

Math equations mistaken for Arabic? Why Italian professor was pulled off US airplane

It's an especially ignorant kind of ignorance on display here.

This is something I've mentioned before where looking at these attacks, we need to recognize the inherent racism to these attacks. That is usually followed by complaints that Islam is not a race, which is true, but ignores who is targeted in these cases. Their target may be a religion, but the people chosen are based on their skin color, whether it's this case or murders where Sikhs and Indians were murdered because people believe them to be Muslim.

 

[Nithavela]

Hey, anyone white is a target for anti-white discrimination. Welcome to the world.

Call me when a person drives a truck into a icelandic delly because he thought the stinky fish on display is from the place he hates most: norway.

 

[JackRT]

And sikh are generally forgiving, non-violent and kind people and not some kind of anti-muslim elite strike force...

The Canadian Minister of National defense, Harjit Sajjan, is an ethnic Sikh.

 

[jovanovic]

we christians need to speak out more against islamphobia. a lot of people who call themself christians are islamophobic.

 

[Ana the Ist]

Call me when a person drives a truck into a icelandic delly because he thought the stinky fish on display is from the place he hates most: norway.

Why? Assuming the owner insured...this won't really have any lasting impact on his life. Also, it's worth pointing out....

1. The truck driver is a former marine who while obviously anti-muslim, blames them for killing his friends overseas. This isn't some random "I hate Muslims" guy...

2. The local community apparently has been stopping in to apologize for the incident and show support!!!

Oh the horrors of the age we live in! Lol

Look at it this way, at least this isn't Saudi Arabia where they still stone people to death over clothing choices.

 

[USincognito]

Hey, anyone white is a target for anti-white discrimination. Welcome to the world.

edit - because apparently a comment about the topic is "flaming"