Sikh Professor Responds To Hate Crime Attack With ‘Gratitude’

Last updated on: July 27, 2014 at 7:00 pm by George G. Coe

Sikh Professor Responds To Hate Crime Attack With ‘Gratitude’ 2014-07-27T19:00:13-05:00 George G. Coe

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“I’m thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. If they had attacked me even half an hour earlier, they would have harmed my wife and one-year-old son. And if they had attacked me anywhere else, I may not have had bystanders there to save me.” (quoted from the Huffington Post Story)

Prabhjot Singh is a professor at Columbia University and a Sikh. He wrote about the murder of Sikhs in a temple in Wisconsin last year. Now he is a victim. A few days ago he was beaten by a gang of boys.

You can read the story here at the Huffington Post. Here is another story from the New York Times and from India Ink.

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