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[theweaselking]

On Friday March 30, 2007 at around 3:00pm, Mr. Kuldip Singh Nag, a Sikh American who was awarded the Bronze Star for his service in the U.S. Navy during the first Gulf War, was at his home in Joliet, IL when a local police officer noticed that a van parked on Mr. Nag’s private property had expired registration tags. Upon being confronted with this, Mr. Nag’s wife, Vera Kaur Nag, informed the officer that the van is parked on their driveway and was inoperable.

Mr. Nag then came outside to answer the officer’s questions regarding the van. The Joliet police officer then demanded that Mr. Nag park the van inside his garage and not on the driveway, to which Mr. Nag responded to the officer that it was not possible and that regardless, the van is parked on his private property and he has a right to park it on his driveway.

At this moment, the officer pulled out his pepper spray and attacked Mr. Nag. As Mr. Nag screamed in agony, the officer removed his baton and violently struck Mr. Nag numerous times until he fell to the ground. While the assault ensued, the officer was reported by both Mr. and Mrs. Nag as saying, “You f****** Arab! You f***** immigrant, go back to you f****** country before I kill you!”
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Note that this story is coming from the Sikh American Legal Defence & Education Fund, which is providing Mr. Nag's legal counsel. As such, they are not inherently an unbiased source, and this has not yet been reported by any news sources.

Comments

[sivi-volk.livejournal.com]

From someone with an interest in ethnicity and language, it's also very annoying that people are constantly mistaking Sikhs for Arabs, despite the fact that they aren't from the same families in either category.

Tangent, I know.

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

I was about to say something along the same lines...

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Brown skin and turban. That's close enough for rednecks.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Hush you, with your infernal "logic" and anti-Christian "thinking". Ragheads is ragheads! Brown skins is brown skins!

Sheesh, next you'll be trying to tell me that JEEEEBUS didn't want me to make a million in bonuses by firing 2000 minimum wage workers at Christmas!

[mcfnord.livejournal.com]

I saw a Sikh family playing in the park today. I yelled, "Sikh! You Sikh, Sikh family!"

[rimrunner.livejournal.com]

Something similar happened to Sherman Alexie after 9/11.

He's a Spokane Indian.

(His response to "Go back to your own country!" was "You first!")