Here is still more in the Left’s endless quest to portray everything as a racial issue. Contrary to the ubiquitous victimology rhetoric about “brown people” in the U.S., this jihad attack at the New York Port Authority today had nothing to do with race. Akayed Ullah did not try to detonate a jihad suicide vest because he was a “young, brown male,” but because he is a Muslim, and a follower of the Islamic State, which has called for jihad attacks in New York City during the Christmas season, and at public transportation hubs.
Simran Jeet Singh is trying to portray Muslims in the U.S. (and other “brown Americans”) as the real victims, as the establishment media and Islamic groups in the U.S. do after every jihad attack. If he had any concern for the history of the Sikh people and how they have suffered at the hands of Islamic jihadis, he might reconsider his avidity to portray this attack entirely in racial terms, and instead be calling upon the Muslim community to drive the jihadis from its midst and teach resolutely and honestly against the ISIS/al-Qaeda understanding of Islam and jihad. Instead, he is warning about an “anti-Muslim backlash” that we are always warned about after every jihad attack, and that never actually materializes.
Simran Jeet Singh is a professor of religion at Trinity University and is the Henry R. Luce Fellow for Religion and International Affairs at NYU’s Center for Religion and Media. Both Trinity University and NYU should immediately repudiate and fire this malignant clown. But instead, they will probably give him a raise.
Santa Voorhees says
I think the word “sick” was mispelled here…
mortimer says
‘Sick’ is the right word to describe the TRIBAL WARFARE between Muslims and Sikhs in India with UNENDING SCORES to be settled!
Now the Sikhs are being mistaken for Muslims, but rather than blaming the Muslims for giving Indians a bad reputation, he blames those who are justifiably AFRAID of Islamic terrorism and just want to live a peaceful life.
Simran Jeet Singh is playing ‘blame the victim’ against the real victims… Americans who are afraid of being killed by Islamic terrorists.
Simran Jeet Singh should blame the source of the problem: ISLAM’S SUPREMACIST DOCTRINE OF WARFARE AGAINST DISBELIEVERS called ‘jihad’.
le mouron rouge says
Mortimer,
Thank you as always for your commentary and insight.
Sharyati says
Mortimer i am not sure what do you mean by unending tribal warfare between Sikhs and Muslims in India. I live in India I do not see such conflicts happen, may be one or 2 local skirmishes but not to the level of warfare. If it was there i would come to know of it Most Sikhs are well educated and have good employment. Many of them are officers in the army, rich wheat farmers, or are part of the garments industry. They are also fiercely patriotic and very loyal and very helping in nature and as such would not be the first people to provoke conflicts. Also Punjab is one of those rich developed states with a Muslim minority and Sikh/Hindu majority. Any casual observer reading your comments would think that India was another conflict zone.
Also historically it was the sikhs and Marathas who were Hindus, who bore the brunt of Islamic Jihad. Especially during the tyrannical mughal rule. Many of the Sikh gurus were executed by the mughal tyrants. Sikhs were the erstwhile Hindu Kshatriya caste(Warrior castes), who created the Khasha to fight Mughal tyranny. The very name Singh in sanskrit means lion. This name is used by the Hindu Kshatriya caste also. So we can have non sikhs with name singh. Like Raja Jai Singh, Tejeshwar Singh, Dig Vijay Singh etc. So we Hindus consider Sikhs to be a collection of Kshatriyas and some modified Hindu practices
Ray Jarman says
Sharyati, is not Kashmir a state of India? I have traveled India from Kerala to Calcutta and from Madras to Bhutan. Once on a train from Goa to Madras, I was seated in a compartment with two gentlemen and we started discussing some of the problems within India which led to the Muslim situation. One of the men explained that when Muslims move into a community, they ask for acceptance and as they out breed their Hindu neighbors, they ask for equality and that they manage some of their affairs under Sharia. Later they demand autonomy and cause a lot of trouble until they receive a lot of their demands.
Kashmir is the epitome of his statement. Muhammad Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru signed a treaty in which Lord Mountbatten mediated on behalf of England. For sometime now the Muslims with the assistance of Pakistan have caused the slaughter of many Hindu and Sikh civilians. It is a real shame for all could prosper as they once from tourism and the great downhill skiing that Srinagar. As a very young man I had the opportunity to do just that, ski at Srinagar. I really love India and my wife and I have plans to visit next year and I wish to take her to Darjeeling and watch the sun rise over the Himalayas.
Sharyati says
Ray, yes Kashmir is a Indian state but the same Jawaharlal Nehru had given what is called a special status to this state, made an article called article 370 which is cause of much pain there. So many norms applicable to normal indian states are not allowed there. Yes right the gentleman your compartment is right. This has happened in many remote villages with ancient Hindu temples. Muslims purchase the land nearby to the temple areas and slowly start increasing in size. The erstwhile residents of the area the priests and other temple authorities now find themselves in a pretty uncomfortable zone. Most of these guys are vegetarians and slowly non vegetarian waste like bones, flesh remnants started to be dumped in the area. Also pressure is put to stop temple festivals that are being celebrated for 1000s of years to stop. Thus the local artists and craftsman who design many of the decorations for the chariots, the vessels used, the dress materials used, the jewelry etc all are forced to leave the place and they move to city to become slum dwellers. Same is the plight of the farmers who cultivate temple lands, take a part of the produce for their labours. The rest is all given back to the temple which uses it during festivals, or free food distributions during calamities and so on. Then a mosque is built into the area after the erstwhile residents leave and now an area which was once a thriving center of arts, crafts and other forms of color and celebration becomes empty as the Arabian desert, albeit with vegetation, filled with madrasas. The Muslims there are uneducated and setup butcher shops in what was once a vegetarian place.
This is how village after village which were thriving self sufficient micro economies and built around village temples get uprooted. The wretched so called secular politicians do not also improve the plight of these Muslims or try to get them educated. The Madrasas do not teach anything but quranic recitation. Since the people studying here are not Arabs they do not understand one word of Arabic and thus have no idea of what they have learnt. They start to wear pants above their ankles grow unkempt beards where kiffeyas, talk urdu though their local language would be Tamil or Telugu, and become Arabs and see India as a land of the kuffars and think Arabia is heaven. These politicians then use these people as vote banks
Never visit Kashmir now it is not safe. The safest part of the country to visit now would the south, north and north east.Darjeeling is a great place and is in West Bengal another state ruled by another Muslim appeasing chief minister Mamta Banerjee .
Ray Jarman says
Thank you Sharyati, It is so rare on this and a lot of other sites for someone to actually answer questions with an intelligent response. I will definitely visit next year in late autumn when the temperature is cooler.
Sons of Liberty says
Why is Simran Jeet Singh teaching at Trinity University IN THE FIRST PLACE ? Since Muslims DON’T BELIEVE IN THE TRINITY . This is the problem on our university campuses THEIR ZEAL to reach out to evil ideologies LIKE ISLAM IS poisoning the minds of students. A complete review of history about Muhammad and the Qur’an would suffice to show what evil exists in that ideology.
le mouron rouge says
Sons of Liberty,
Why is Simran Jeet Singh teaching at Trinity University IN THE FIRST PLACE ?
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Good question.
Maybe we should follow the money? Is is possible that Trinity U, like Georgetown U, has received large sums of money from Saudi Arabia or another Islamic group?
John in Indy says
What part of – Sikhs are NOT muslims, and have FOUGHT muislims for centuries – is unclear to you?
Trimmed beard, nice TURBAN – generally productive / legal immigrants / small businessmen = SIKH
Ragged beard, head rag / keffiah, “refugee” / welfare sponge, aloha snackbar = muslim
Hope this helps. John in Indy
Custos Custodum says
Why are MY TAXES subsidizing this tax-exempt academic chair as a platform for Simran Singh (and his non-ethnic colleagues) to spout his toxic lies.
b.a. freeman says
Custos, your taxes are subsidizing this fool because U are a rich american whose earnings were stolen from the brown people whom U victimize. U must be punished, but society has not yet deteriorated enough for the left to seize power and give U the punishment U so richly deserve, which is a bullet to the back of the head. taxes will have to do for now. and if U happen to have brown or black blood flowing in your veins, then U’re an uncle tom, and are even *more* deserving of that bullet.
the sad thing is that were he to speak with sikhs in india, the majority of whom live in punjab state, bordering pakistan, he would probably find that his fellow believers are tormented by pious muslims. i guess people on the left don’t bother checking stories against reality so long as the stories fit the leftist narrative.
b.a. freeman says
sigh … i forgot that the “sarcasm” xml tag gets stripped off here, even if whitespace comes between characters. sorry about that, Custos; the first paragraph was meant to end with a “” tag (that’s a less-than charcter, followed by a forward-slash character, followed by the word “sarcasm,” and ended with a greater-than character.
Custos Custodum says
Understood you were being sarcastic.
The sad thing is that slave-minded Sikhs like Simran Jeet Singh KNOW what is happening back in Punjab, but decide to act as the running dogs for Muslim subversion in the U.S.
Carolyne says
The are “Sick.”
This is the same old song. I know of no violence against any “Brown” people. Civilized people don’t retaliate against innocent people. That’s what Muslims do–a case in point.
jihad3tracker says
I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT OUR AMERICAN STEALTH JIHADISTS — LIKE CAIR — ARE REACHING OUT RIGHT AWAY TO GET THIS FRAME IN TERMS OF RACE.
jihad3tracker says
Watch David Wood’s video “Three Questions For Moderate Muslims” —- for a very relevant commentary about this deflection AWAY FROM PLACING THE TRUE CAUSE ON ISLAM.
Thomas Kimball says
I don’t care what color a person is when they are attacking me ,I’m going to try to stop them ! When it comes to self defense I’m totally for equal opportunity!
WPM says
Islam is not a race how many times do we have to proclaim this. The last attack in NYC before this one the guy was a white Moslem who ran people over on the bike path. There are a lot of non white non Moslem people in NYC this imaginary bogey man ” large group of white men Nazi group” in NYC is laughable in the year 2017.If nothing happen to Moslems or other people that are “dark skinned” in NYC after 911 attack in New York City this Moslem backlash is pure B.S.
KRJ says
And don’t forget the Boston bombers were white – That’s right, it’s not a race. It’s a zombie ideology out to establish a Caliphate, just as they have been doing (and succeeding; country after country has fallen) for centuries.
Wyldeirishman says
This nonsense is what I would expect from the hard-Left, not a legit Sikh.
Very disappointing.
Savvy Kafir says
Yeah. I thought most Sikhs were well aware — from long, bloody experience — of the danger Islam poses to non-Muslims. I didn’t expect to see this sort of politically-correct BS coming from a Sikh.
WPM says
This Sikh should ask his fellow Sikhs how they are treated by Moslems in Southern Asia. He is as bad as the Christians in America and Europe making excuses for Islamic violence on Christian communities in the middle East.
panther says
Sikhs, a century or so ago, use to be fine people with unblemished history of fighting tyranny.
The current generation is disgustingly corrupt, greedy, stupid & violent.
b.a. freeman says
in the western hemisphere, panther, no doubt U are correct. i’ll bet if U were to talk to sikhs in india, however, U would get a different story. it’s all about how close one must live to the pious of the criminal cult of islam.
ahem says
Notwithstanding this prof’s Leftism, his tweet is not without merit: Sikhs are not—not even remotely—Muslims, or Muslim-sympathizers, but they are frequently mistaken for Muslims because they often wear turbans. He’s just trying to remind us that not all exotic-looking brown guys are Muslims. I’d cut him a little slack.
b.a. freeman says
OK, we can cut him some slack, but he should at least list some of the attacks on non-muslim brown people. i’ll bet that list is pretty short.
Thomas Kimball says
Exactly! Couldn’t have said it better. If it was happening the left would eat it up and you would hear about it 24/7!!!
panther says
Addendum:
Just look in Canada how the new leader of NDP, a radical sikh jagmeet singh brar, has vocally supported the anti-islamophobia motion M-103 and all 13 sikh MPs (from all 3 major political parties) in Canadian parliament has voted in support of passing this motion.
Enola Gay says
Stop it people! He is probobly cra cra, from all the “racism”, from ptsd, from 1500 years of inbreeding…….
From having a name evryone mispronounces. Besides he did not know this was wrong because it’s ok in his culture. DO NOT interview his 4 wives or interrupt their food stamps, because they are all pregnant with their 4th child and KNOW NOTHING!
mgoldberg says
I think that it’s important that we make civil demands that this ‘fellow’ at NYU and the other college, be brought up on charges of inciting bigotry and asked to resign his teaching position. He should be fired, if indeed he has asserted that it is ‘brown’ people that have hatred brought against them for being ‘brown’.
It should not be merely something to scoff at, or wait for a derisive comment from someone on fox about the foolishness of the comment, but rather the respectfull demand that he be removed from ‘teaching’ as he has brought false and scurrilous charges of bigotry
Older Canadian says
Agree! But it will never happen, unfortunately.
le mouron rouge says
mgoldberg,
I agree with Older Canadian.
The “left” has far too much power and control of the education system.
“The battle for mankind’s future must be waged and won in the public school classroom. The classroom must and will become the arena of conflict between…the rotting corpse of Christianity and the new faith of humanism.”
– John Dewey (1859-1952)
mgoldberg says
But… without politely requesting the false and scurrilous charges of the ‘Fellow’ be brought to
bare, then they can simply ignore all of it before hand, and pretend it away.
That they may well pretend it away, is no doubt their goal, but…. unless we who know and feel utterly disgusted by the falsity, open our mouths, and take notice of this in front of them then we have only ourselves to blame.
mortimer says
Agee. Simran Jeet Singh is making overgeneralizations about Americans after just COMPLAINING that Americans are making overgeneralizations about him! That is rather hypocritical, is it not?
Oh, I get, Mr. Singh! It isn’t overgeneralization WHEN YOU DO IT!
Carolyne says
“Inciting bigotry” is not a crime in the US. We have the First Amendment and can say almost anything we wish without fear of storm troopers coming in the night as in Western Europe and Canada.
Sharyati says
This guy is naive. By now most of the folks in the US and UK know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. May be the guy is afraid that Sikhs could be mistaken for Muslims?
mortimer says
Sharyati, I wish you were right. Many uneducated Westerners still do not know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims by SIGHT.
We are not being told these things and people are afraid to ask for fear of being called ‘racist’. It’s a vicious cycle of ignorance that works in favor of Islam.
Sharyati says
Ohh too bad!!! Because atleast my friends in the West , UK, USA and Australia included know to distinguish them by sight. Probably you are right since mine is a very small sample to speak from. Then this guys fears are not entirely unfounded!!!
b.a. freeman says
OK, i’ll bite. racism is *never* a good thing, and exposing a racist is always a good thing. so could U be so kind as to provide a list of incidents (no more than 5 or 6 should be necessary) in which non-muslim brown people were attacked because they were mistaken for muslims?
Sharyati says
Freeman, i am not saying that there are everyday racist attacks that are committed by whites against Sikhs and other brown communities. What i say is a handful of hotheaded under informed folks could mistake a random Sikh as a Muslim and attack him. Like there were shootings of a couple of Indians.
Custos Custodum says
Of course, it would be easy for Sikhs to start a campaign to EXPLAIN the difference and help people distinguish. Since Muslim men typically do not wear turbans nowadays, it should not be hard to explain the difference to even the dimmest Americans.
However, to do so would be anti-Islamic, so leading Sikhs (like Simran Jeet Singh) intentionally try to mislead Americans by conflating Muslims and Sikhs as “brown people.”
Thomas Kimball says
Where are all the stories of white people attacking brown people of any religious persuasion? The only race I see that’s in danger In America is whites! Muslims hate us Blacks hate us and apparently our own government hates us because they want to bring in as many jihadists as they can! Do I sound paranoid?
Carolyne says
I know the difference between Sikhs and Muslims. Sikhs are all named Singh.
Sharyati says
But how do you know the name of a random Sikh when you walk down a street?
Sharyati says
Also many non Sikh Hindus can have the name. The word singh means lion in sanskrit and generally denotes persons from the Kshatriya caste(Warrior caste). So even Hindus can have names that end with Singh
mgoldberg says
The address for the ‘Fellow’ is I believe, religious.studies@nyu.edu
I have sent my request for his punishment for making false, bigoted statements, requesting suspension and apology for the falsehoods asserted. I suggest everyone ,politely, in their own words request
their own appropriate suggestions for this spurious, false act by that NYU ‘Fellow’.
mortimer says
Well done, M-G!
Pet Charles says
According to the US Census in 2000 there was 1.6 million “Asian Indians” in the US. Ten years later the population increased by 68.37% through chain immigration to where it was about 2.8 million. We can bet that that population is in excess of 3.6 million or double what it was 17-years ago. If the US does not stop chain immigration, it will end up like the UK and elsewhere in Europe with incessant religious terrorist attacks.
StacyGirl says
When a link in the chain is a terrorist the entire chain should be deported. This would collapse the anthill.
b.a. freeman says
it’s *not* the sikhs, jains, or people of any other religion causing the problem. these folks have generally blended in very well when they are allowed into the country. the ones who cause trouble are the *PIOUS* *MUSLIMS*, and when riled up, non-pious muslims can easily become pious; thus, we should block all immigration of muslims, with the possible exceptions of ahmadiyya muslims, and any non-muslim refugees (who can prove they are not muslim).
StacyGirl, your spouse is spot-on; when somebody in a family who chain-migrated performs an act of terrorisim, they and the *ENTIRE* chain should be deported.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Preventive training programs were deployed over the last few decades to stop sex harassment. Congress is bringing up the rear by finally adopting a program.
Based on the concerns raised by this imam, it’s probably time to do the same to stop Islamophobia. Make every Infidel citizen attend an approved certified Islam is a Relgion of Peace Islam Means Peace in Arabic four hour seminar.
Voytek Gagalka says
Yet again another derailed “professor”! WHY THEY ARE SO STUPID?
Richard Paulsen says
There must be a change. Muslims must not be allowed to poison the civilzed world too.
mortimer says
Richard, we need to ‘poison’ the idea that a reasonable, moderately moral person can to subscribe to the Misogynistic, Bigoted Death Cult of Islam… Islam is twenty-one cults in one.
Richard Paulsen says
Who is who? Out of 1,6-2 billion so far. To stop each of them,the only way.
StacyGirl says
The ever feared mythical backlash that never occurs yet is so richly warranted.
mortimer says
Stacy, that’s because Americans are actually kind, compassionate people and they are not bigots. Slandering Americans with a broad brush is wickedness.
StacyGirl says
The backlash I’d approve is vetting these migrants, treating the terrorists as enemy combatants and executing them. You can see how the USA can’t even do step 1–betting—without the Democrats and courts going wild. Good hearted citizens can agree that we need a vigorous response. I’m not advocating reciprocal violence. And why are we bringing ANY of these migrants here?
Custos Custodum says
AKA preemptive “frontlash.”
StacyGirl says
Yes best defense is their constant offense.
mortimer says
American Sikhs should all put MAGA (Make America Great Again) on their turbans! That way, everyone one will MISTAKE THEM for patriotic Americans who give a damn about other fellow Americans.
Nah, you wouldn’t do that, would you, Mr. Singh! You don’t want anyone to think that you’re patriotic towards the country that gave you so much!
That would be showing GRATITUDE… Sorry if I mistook you for someone who is GRATEFUL to the United States for all your opportunities, Mr. Singh!
Custos Custodum says
The idea of using distinctive head gear seems promising.
Perhaps some smart Sikhs can think of some other distinctive variants.
Giacomo says
This nonsense as usual from left, is like saying conquest of Europe by Nazi Germany and building of concentration camps is cultural thing of Nazi Germany, and historically, incidents like this have been followed by violence (Allied landing in Normandy in 1944) against innocent Nazi Germans. Please remember stand against hate if you witness it.
Sarah says
Well the second I saw ‘works at a University’, it was enough for me.
We aren’t sick to death of ‘innocent brown Americans’ you pampered little spoiled brat. We are sick to death of being blown up, shot, stabbed, run over, poisoned and doused in acid BY MUSLIMS.
You have your turban wound too tight, its constricting your blood vessels.
Xen says
Please do not get me wrong on this, I am against jihad in all its forms and I agree with most of what Robert Spencer says. But I think he is missing the point of the Sikh professor. Obviously he has never been the victim of racism because of the colour of his skin?
I am a ‘brown-skined’ Christian and have been on the receiving end of racism from white people all my life in England. Even at the age of 43 I still experience this. This is real. Of course not all white people are racist, but a lot are. This is my experience.
The professor is correct in saying that there is a backlash against ‘brown-skined’ people whenever something like this happens. This is a fact.
I just wish sometimes that this is ackwoledged from people like Robert Spencer and his supportes, because they play into the hands of white supremecists. And yes, a lot of white supremecists also agree with Robert Spencers opinions.
Peace.
b.a. freeman says
Xen, could U be so kind as to give us some examples of this backlash against non-muslim brown people after terrorist attacks? the legacy media, which i still watch for a laugh, and to get my heart pumping hard, have totally dropped the ball on reports of such.
i am *not* denying that racism exists. this braid-dead leftist is saying that non-muslim brown people are being attacked as muslims every time there is a terrorist attack, however, and i just haven’t seen it. yes, i *have* seen racism, and it *does* exist, but the institution is no longer being run by those particular inmates (in fact, now the hard left is running things). please show us attacks on brown people who were mistaken for muslims after a terrorist attack.
StacyGirl says
Crickets
Ray Jarman says
I would like to know why a Trinity College would permit such a person to represent one of America’s greatest advocates of freedom, Henry R. Luce. He had a large part in bringing down Alger Hiss by providing Whittaker Chambers during the Nixon led war on Communism. This Simran Jeet Singh is an insult to this great man’s name and everything he represented at Time Incorporated.
mgoldberg says
Please email the dept that hired this reprobate ‘Fellow’. Your noting the role of Henry R Luce as an advocagte of Freedom, should be indeed sent to them. That this ‘fellow’ goes unrepremanded would be an outrage, and hopefully many will tell their email lists about this horrendous liar, this ‘fellow’ and demand
an intellectual reckoning.
Robin Datta says
Trouble is, the whites cannot distinguish between a Sikh and a Muslim: there have been plenty of instances of the emmeffs attacking and/or harassing Sikhs. The Sikhs have had enough already from Muslims in the subcontinent from the first invanions up to the presont Pakistan.
It is unlikely that the emmeffs will distinguish between Sikh and Muslim in their attacks: hence an appeal to desist from attacking all browh folks.
Robin Datta says
That’s “present” & “brown”. E&OE.
Cheer Bear Girl says
It isn’t brown people I fear. It is Muslims I do not trust. Sikhs aren’t the problem. I don’t assume some is a terrorist unless they give me a reason to suspect them.
Z says
Didn’t the FBI just say that backlash never happens
Charles says
Humm.
I’ve been praying for some sort of backlash for years!
If enough of us can convince these Demons that America is no place for them, THEY WILL STOP COMING HERE!
AND ONES ALREADY HERE, WILL BE IN A HUGE HURRY TO LEAVE the U.S.A and just quietly go back to Camel-furt-a-stan!
StacyGirl says
I think your prayers were answered in Nov 2016. Trump was elected because millions of US citizens are sick of this immigration roulette. Just look what happened when President Trump attempted to legally stop it.
agha ali arkhan says
Simran: Your comment is sickly racist! You should be ashamed to post such hate-filled racism. AAA
mach37 says
I have to stand against brown skinned perpetrators of violence against innocent white people. In the USA and Europe it is ALWAYS more white people hurt by “browns” than “browns” ever hurt by retaliating whites.
Surjeet arora says
I think Simran Jeet singh should have kept his mouth shut.