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Donald Trump Campaign Portrays Sikh As Muslim Supporter On Campaign Flyer

Darpan News Desk IANS, 18 Oct, 2016 01:09 PM
    In another gaffe, an Indian-origin Sikh in the US was misidentified as a Muslim supporter of Donald Trump in flyers distributed by the Republican presidential nominee's campaign, a media report said today.
     
    Gurinder Singh Khalsa, a resident of Fishers city in Indiana who immigrated to the US from India, featured in the handbill advertisement with the word "Muslim" superimposed above his picture, WTHR TV channel reported.
     
    The flyers, distributed in Ohio to canvass for Mr Trump, claimed that Mr Khalsa was a Muslim Trump supporter.
     
    "I am not Muslim and I am not supporting Trump," he was quoted as saying by the channel.
     
    "He (Trump) is putting my picture, saying Muslims support him and I have nothing to do with it. I do not support Trump."
     
    "Nobody even asked me to put that picture there. It was shocking, disturbing and this will create more confusion among people because they are sending it nationwide," he said.
     
    Mr Khalsa, who founded the Sikh Political Action Committee -- a non-partisan group encouraging state lawmakers to include Sikhs in the conversation -- said Sikhs have been mistaken as radical Islamists and have been targeted by hate crimes.
     
     
    He said the committee wants to teach the public who they are, why they have beards and wear turbans. It is designed to help Americans understand the differences between his Sikh religion and others from around the world.
     
    Mr Khalsa said he knew he had to work to educate the general public, but "now we have to work hard to get national level politicians and the presidential candidate, he does not know the difference between Muslims and Sikhs and that is most disturbing".
     
    There have been many gaffes from Mr Trump, 70, and his campaign in the past. Earlier, Mr Trump's refusal to back same-sex marriage on the basis that he only supports "traditional" unions was undermined when a TV journalist asked him what was traditional about marrying three times.
     
    Mr Trump had created an uproar when he said "When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're sending people that have lots of problems. They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists".

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