Monday, August 6, 2012

Will the new London group shock Christine and know all 5 of the most common religions in the world?

So I'm sure most of you have heard about the shooting that occured yesterday in Wisconsin at a Sikh Temple. If not, here is a link to an article explaining what happened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/us/army-veteran-identified-as-suspect-in-wisconsin-shooting.html?pagewanted=all

It scares me that it's happened right after the Colorado Theater shooting..maybe this is the reason why Americans are stereotyped as gun lovers. Anyway, since hearing about the shooting last night I've noticed Sikhism has been in the news - I heard about it twice this morning on the radio and have seen a few articles online, and just recently I found this one and wanted to share it with you all:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/06/sikhs-in-america_n_1748125.html?utm_hp_ref=religion

It is so unfortunate that people were killed for no reason while in a place of worship, but after seeing all of the articles I think that many Americans will have a better understanding of what Sikhism is - or at least finally know it exists, because I know before Christine's class I had never even heard of it! Reading about it made me think of you all and also made me wonder if the new Londoners will be able to name all 5 of the most practiced religions in the world. So I guess in short it sickens me that someone would commit such a horrible hate crime, but the silver lining is that many Americans will hopefully learn about and come to understand Sikhism. Ok I'm done rambling love you all!!!

1 comment:

  1. Isnt weird in comparison to Colorado how little media coverage this incident got?

    Or maybe we're all just desensitized to this stuff at this point

    Idk which is worse :/

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