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Indian ambassador to US Nirupama Rao raises questions about violence specially against Indians targeting Sikhs in America
The soul searching in America is on. In the mean time Sikhs and other Indians are scared of getting slaughtered by racing American lunatics in workplace or school or place of worship.
People in India did raise questions about why Sikhs should become "collateral damage" in such violent incidents, she said in an interview with National Public Radio on Thursday.
"But I wanted to say that in India, you know, when we see violence of this nature and we see Sikhs somehow becoming some kind of collateral damage in many senses, obviously, you know, questions do arise about the use of guns in the United States and why all this should happen," she said.
"You know, so when President Obama spoke about soul searching, you know, the need for soul searching on these issues, I think he really hit the nail on the head," said Rao just back from a visit to Oak Creek to meet the families of the shooting victims.
"We need an architecture of soul searching on this," she said. "We really need an architecture, whether it's hate crime, whether it's domestic terrorism."
"Why is it happening? We need some soul searching. Why do acts of violence of this nature happen? We need a mature conversation on that," Rao said when asked about the authorities'' decision to treat the Sunday shooting as domestic terrorism rather than hate crime.
While she really did not want to pick holes in the authorities'' description of the incident as domestic terrorism, Rao noted that the Sikh community "had talked about the fact that they have encountered problems from time to time when, you know, in let's say in schools or in the workplace." OUTSOURCING ARTICLES
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