Jack Bauer said:On September 15, 2001, Balbir Singh Sodhi was planting flowers outside his Arizona gas station to honor 9/11 victims when a man drove up & shot him five times in the back, killing him because he was wearing a turban. His death was the first in a series of “revenge” murders… pic.twitter.com/cytbLf8Api
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Always sad when people mistake Sikhs for Muslims
Not only are they not...but their whole history is actually just one big long conflict with Islam & Muslims.
[Sikh-Muslim relations began peacefully....then turning into a long-standing, religio-political conflict against the Mughal Empire (Muslims)
The fifth Sikh Guru was executed in 1606 by Mughal Emperor Jahangir, which marked a major turning point from cooperation to active hostility.
The ninth Sikh Guru was publicly executed in 1675 by Emperor Aurangzeb for defending the religious freedom of Hindus.
After the decline of the Mughal Empire, Sikhs faced repeated invasions and battles against northern Afghan and Islamic tribes.]
Often not talked about but one of the big reasons the Sikhs stayed loyal to the British in the 1857 munity...is that Muslims were a big part of the revolt and intended to revive the Islamic Mughal Empire....
[The initial spark of the 1857 mutiny was heavily tied to religious and caste purity, specifically rumors (untrue) that the British were using rifle cartridges greased with beef and pork fat, which offended Hindu and Muslim soldiers. Because Sikhism rejects the strictures of the Hindu caste system and Islamic dietary codes, Sikh soldiers did not share the same religious motivations to revolt.
When the mutineers marched on Delhi, they declared the aging Mughal Emperor, Bahadur Shah Zafar, as the Emperor of Hindustan. For the Sikhs, the memory of brutal persecution under Mughal rule -including the torture and execution of their Gurus (Guru Arjan and Guru Tegh Bahadur)- was a central part of their collective history. The prospect of a resurrected Mughal Empire was completely unacceptable to the Sikh community, making the British seem like a far more stable and religiously tolerant alternative.]
