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The way you decide to wear it is very cultural as opposed to a religious interpretation. it s very cultural at the end of the day. i feel like now is the time more than ever to go out there, make it normal to see women wearing a hijab and accept it. would you describe yourself as a feminist? absolutely. we allow women to do what they want to do. not what american women want them to do. i certainly agree with you and hear what you re saying. i know i have a lot of lefty progressive friends who are like, they think you need to be liberated from the head scarf. also there s a narrative that there s a double standard. muslim women have to cover up, but there s nothing in the koran that says men have to cover up. a lot of men do take it to that step and do cover more. that s how it is. okay. rima s right. many devout muslim men do wear turbans, long roads, and grow heavy beards that cover up their faces and nobody s talking about ....
Sikh men grow long beards and wear turbans. so particularly ignorant muslim haters have frequently targeted sikhs in the past out of sheer blundering bigated stupidity. well, this weekend, the police declared they would not be pursuing the attack on the buena park sikh temple as a hate crime. and then something remarkable happened on sunday. the 20-year-old arrested. the guy that got arrested for vandalizing the temple and doing all that spray painting, he showed up during the temple during services and gave a personal apology to the congregation for what he did. so confused 20-year-old motivated by anti-muslim bigotry, vandalizes non-muslim house of worship issues a personal apology. sikh community in buena park, california, is left und standbly bewildered by the whole thing and also in some ways threatened. this has been a rushing current in the news. ....
And it s really a million dollar question for us as to why the fbi wasn t keeping track of hate crimes against our communities. yeah and there is so much i guess, misinformation on these communities. the sikh community is one of the most tolerant you know positive communities in the united states and yet people don t understand and fear them for some reason? the revealing stay stereotype, if someone wears a turn they re somehow associated with al qaeda. as it turns out the overwhelming majority of people in the unite who wear turbans are sikhs and the sikh turban stands for core sikh values including respect for all, dignity for all people and our core belief in university equality. talk to me about the importance of tracking hate crimes against these communities. why is it so important? for several reasons. i think it s important for people to remember that you can t address any kind of policy ....
a paper lantern into the river to honor the people of the hiroshima atomic bombing in world war ii and 70,000 people died instantly, and today is the 67th anniversary. the next hour of the the next hour of the newsroom starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m john berman filling in for suzanne malveaux. and this hour, we are learning more about the white supremist background of a man who gunned down six membersof a sikh temple in wisconsin, and we are hearing from the relatives of the people killed. he left this world protecting the people and the world, and now we want to know who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. the police say that the gunman ambushed the officers and gunned down people during their sunday services. he was identified as wade michael page, and some sources say he was a army member and discharged because of patterns of misconduct, and the gunman was killed in the rampage. brian todd joins us from oak creek, wisco ....
Terrorism. federal officials say they have no information that this is somehow connected to any sort of terrorist group or any sort of any other kind of group. now, since 9/11, there have been incidents across the country in which sikh s have been mistakenly targeted for attacks by anti-muslim groups, largely because the male sikh wear turbans. there are routes in south asia. they are searching for answers and searching for some of those answers in the alleged gunman s home. milissa? and they were also searching for loved ones. it had to be terrifying for those inside. has everyone reconnected with their families at this point? reporter: many people hid inside the blding while this was going on and the so far ....