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by jlawson 1343 days ago
>Sikh's were getting killed for looking too Muslim.

I'm sorry but this sounds like an activist fever dream/urban legend. Are there actually two (or even one) known incidents like this from that time period?

I'm not defending the GWOT or opposing it here but that's an extreme characterization you're making; I was there and it doesn't match anything like my memory.

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Here's a few murders: Balbir Singh Sodhi, Waqar Hasan, Adel Karas, Saed Mujtahid, Jayantilal Patel, Surjit Singh Samra, Abdo Ali Ahmed, Abdullah Mohammed Nimer, and Vasudev Patel.
Presumably he's referring to Balbir Singh Sodhi.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Balbir_Singh_Sodhi

Or one of the 16 others in Muneer Ahmad’s 2004 paper. Although they were not all Sikh.