The line about a Sikh's hair being cut off in India is inappropriate. That news item is here -- http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=317685&sid=NAT
If you read it, you will find that it was not a hate crime but a crime. The Sikh had tried to help out a damsel in distress and the four hooligans who were harassing her retaliated. NYT *had to* make it sound like it was a hate-crime.
If they wanted a hate-crime story, here was one -- http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/06/01/sikh-050601.html
QUOTE: The 17-year-old boy was walking through a field behind an elementary school in Richmond last Thursday afternoon when he was jumped by the men, believed to be all Caucasian and in their early twenties. END QUOTE
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The line about a Sikh's hair being cut off in India is inappropriate. That news item is here -- http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=317685&sid=NAT
If you read it, you will find that it was not a hate crime but a crime. The Sikh had tried to help out a damsel in distress and the four hooligans who were harassing her retaliated. NYT *had to* make it sound like it was a hate-crime.
If they wanted a hate-crime story, here was one -- http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2005/06/01/sikh-050601.html
QUOTE:
The 17-year-old boy was walking through a field behind an elementary school in Richmond last Thursday afternoon when he was jumped by the men, believed to be all Caucasian and in their early twenties.
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