{"id":302,"date":"2012-08-06T02:45:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/islaminamerica\/?p=302"},"modified":"2012-08-06T02:45:35","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T02:45:35","slug":"were-sikhs-mistaken-for-muslims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2012\/08\/06\/were-sikhs-mistaken-for-muslims\/","title":{"rendered":"Were Sikhs Mistaken for Muslims?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,\u201d said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. \u201cPeople think we are Muslims.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>That quotation from a <I>New York Times<\/I> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/08\/06\/us\/shooting-reported-at-temple-in-wisconsin.html\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> on the shootings earlier today at a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gurdwara\" target=\"_blank\">gurdwara<\/a> in Oak Creek, Wisconsin (<a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=7502+South+Howell+Avenue,+Oak+Creek,+WI&#038;hl=en&#038;sll=39.766555,-86.441277&#038;sspn=5.387136,10.195312&#038;oq=7502+S+Howell+Ave,+&#038;hnear=7502+S+Howell+Ave,+Oak+Creek,+Wisconsin+53154&#038;t=m&#038;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">map<\/a>), was echoed in other news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Did the gunman, said to be a 40-year-old Caucasian male, target the Sikhs because he thought they were Muslims?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEveryone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,\u201d said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. \u201cPeople think we are Muslims.\u201d That quotation from a New York Times article on the shootings earlier today at a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin (map), was echoed in other news reports.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[69],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wisconsin"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Were Sikhs Mistaken for Muslims? 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