{"id":427,"date":"2013-09-25T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/09\/sikh-professor-responds-to-hate-crime-attack-with-gratitude.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T19:00:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T00:00:13","slug":"sikh-professor-responds-to-hate-crime-attack-with-gratitude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/09\/sikh-professor-responds-to-hate-crime-attack-with-gratitude.html","title":{"rendered":"Sikh Professor Responds To Hate Crime Attack With &#8216;Gratitude&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><figure id=\"attachment_4365\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4365\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2013\/09\/sikh-violence.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4365 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/433\/2013\/09\/sikh-violence-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"sikh violence\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from New York Times<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. If they had attacked me even half an hour earlier, they would have harmed my wife and one-year-old son. And if they had attacked me anywhere else, I may not have had bystanders there to save me.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/25\/prabhjot-singh-responds-hate-crime-harlem_n_3989323.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&amp;ir=Religion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">quoted from the Huffington Post Story<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Prabhjot Singh is a professor at Columbia University and a Sikh. \u00a0He wrote about the murder of Sikhs in a temple in Wisconsin last year. Now he is a victim. \u00a0A few \u00a0days ago he was beaten by a gang of boys.<\/p>\n<p>You can read the story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2013\/09\/25\/prabhjot-singh-responds-hate-crime-harlem_n_3989323.html?utm_hp_ref=religion&amp;ir=Religion\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here at the Huffington Post<\/a>. Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/24\/nyregion\/chronicling-anti-sikh-violence-and-now-a-victim.html?partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">another story from the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/india.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/09\/27\/a-stranger-on-lennox-avenue\/?_r=0\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">from India Ink.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. If they had attacked me even half an hour earlier, they would have harmed my wife and one-year-old son. And if they had attacked me anywhere else, I may not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sikh Professor Responds To Hate Crime Attack With &#039;Gratitude&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;I&#039;m thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. 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