Indian-Americans protest against hate crimes |
Indian-Americans, particularly Hindus and Sikh, have become victims of Islamophobia and xenophobia in the US, the community members said as they held an awareness rally against hate crimes in front of the White House seeking President Donald Trump`s intervention in the matter. Hindus have been recently affected and victimised as a result of Islamophobia. A lot of Sikh people and Hindu people are mistaken for being Muslim, for being Middle, the protesters said. In a petition memorandum submitted to President Trump, the recently established Coalition of Indian American organisations of the USA, which organised the event, urged him to intervene in the matter and take steps to punish the culprits under federal hate crimes law. It also urged the President to allay the fears of the Indian-American community and show his support, and take remediation steps to eliminate the hate. A message should go out to the people of this country from the administration that no citizen should take the law into their hands and it will not be tolerated by the government, said the petition. The peaceful protest was organised in the aftermath of a series of hate crime incidents against Indian-Americans.
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