After many of these attacks on Sikhs, some of the community members spoke to Indian American standup comic and social commentator Hasan Minaj about it. “Why don't you just go “Hey—I'm not Muslim,”’ ask Minaj. The reply expresses solidarity for other Muslims unfairly and cruelly targeted just for their identity and is heartening.
The message is that it is as wrong to target innocent Muslims for something that someone else calling themselves Muslims has done; as much as it is to target innocent Sikhs. Saying I am not Muslim, is the deflection of the hate; a way of saying ‘don’t attack me (only) because I am not Muslim.
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