The tragedy of the terror attack of 9/11 that killed nearly 3000 human beings was devastating and there was more tragedy to unfold in the days and months that followed. There was a wave of islamophobia that swept across the United States manifesting in hate speech and hate crimes against Muslims. Such was the ignorance in that hatred, that it indiscriminately attacked anyone who looked like a Muslim – people from Asia, people with turbans and anyone with brown skin. In fact, the first casualty was a hate crime against a Sikh man who was murdered.
Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed because someone wanted to “go out and shoot some towel-heads” after the 9/11 terror attacks. “He was killed simply because of the way he looked,” says a plaque outside the gas station where Sodhi was killed.
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