Police: NYC mob attacks Sikh professor, thinking he's Muslim

[cali]

In what police are investigating as a hate crime, a Columbia University professor was badly beaten on a New York City street Saturday by a mob that apparently believed he was a Muslim.

Police say Prabjot Singh, a 31-year-old Sikh, was attacked just blocks from his home by a group of more than 20 young men on bikes who called him a terrorist and shouted "Get Osama!" Singh, who was saved when passersby intervened, was left with injuries including a fractured jaw, reports the Columbia Spectator.

Friend Simran Jeet Singh describes the attack in the Huffington Post, noting that the professor had been taking an evening walk after dropping his wife and 1-year-old at home.

"He couldn't speak because many of his teeth had been displaced, but he waved limply to let us know that he was OK," he writes of seeing Singh at the hospital. "It's incredibly sad," Singh himself tells the New York Daily News. "It's not the neighborhood I know. I work in this community. It's just not American."

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/09/23/newser-sikh-attack/2854043/

[Jefferson23]

1. Gee, I wonder where they learned all that irrational fear and hatred from.

Idiots.

[HappyMe]

2. They should have their

bicycles shoved up their asses.

[gopiscrap]

3. Thank you FOX News you are raising a generation of violent, bellegerent ignorant fuckers

[cali]

5. what on earth makes you think those who did this watch fox news?

[gopiscrap]

8. it was general statement about society as a whole and I am sure some of them did watch fox

[Katashi_itto]

9. Fox pioneered making Hate mainstream.

[G_j]

7. & don't forget NY Congressmoron Peter King

[MisterP]

4. "it's his own fault for ramming his religion down their throats!"

--Parti Québécois

[HangOnKids]

6. Right After 9/11 a Sikh gas station owner was shot and killed In Arizona

is wrong with these stupid violent assholes?

[JonLP24]

10. That was right here in Mesa

I haven't been many places but there are more racists/bigots by far than anywhere else I've been.

[Dr. Strange]

11. Stupid southerners!