Sikh professor attacked in New York

Another hate crime incident against Sikh community reported on Sunday when a professor at Columbia University, Prabhjot Singh, was allegedly attacked by a group of men who called him “Osama” and “terrorist”.

The police have started the investigation.    

Dr. Singh’s friend Simran Jeet Singh made the post on HuffPost website where it was claimed that the Professor was “brutally attacked” in Harlem neighbourhood and taken to hospital “bloody and bruised, his face swollen from a fractured jaw.”

“On Sunday night, I received the kind of phone call that everyone dreads: a close friend was hurt, and on his way to the hospital. But the news got worse, as I learned that my friend, Dr Prabhjot Singh, a young Sikh American professor at Columbia University, had been brutally attacked on a public street, the victim of a violent hate crime,” the post said.

“Unfortunately his assailants did not see Prabhjot Singh, the professor, the community health expert or the local doctor. They saw a man wearing a beard and a turban – his articles of faith – and saw a target. Sadly, for many other Sikh Americans like Prabhjot, this is a story they have heard and experienced before,” Jeet Singh said.

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