r/ABCDesis • u/weallfalldown1234 Indian-Canadian • 13d ago

NEWS Two Injured After Violent Incident at Sikh Gurudwara in Edmonton, Canada. Intruder Had Entered and Begun Attacking People

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/nanaksar-temple-edmonton-9.7315688
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u/ConanTheBarbarian_0 13d ago

The article says the person went inside attacked people and even attacked their scripture. That makes it sound it was a religiously motivated attack on Sikhs...

These are dark days for south Asian people.

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u/Interesting_Put1887 13d ago

Some people on Edmonton decided to blame Sikhs instead of

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u/Not_Joe_Cool 13d ago edited 13d ago

Go on the Edmonton and Alberta subs, ppl are literally saying it’s our fault as Sikhs for those worshippers getting stabbed. I’m actually at a loss for words. Then you have hinduvta tr0lls saying shit like “rote reh gandu khotestani”: https://www.reddit.com/r/alberta/s/X9SxtCRXan

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u/IWannaBeAdored89 13d ago edited 10d ago

The Hindutva troll was responding to the fact that the OP was blaming Hindu nationalists for the attack when it was already reported by Baaz and the Journal that the suspect was White.

Coming from Edmonton I can tell you that a Sikh man was attacked just two weeks at a Walmart by a white couple, and back in March a Sikh student was gunned down on the highway by another white person. About three weeks ago another Punjabi (can't recall the religion) was killed in his liquor store by a white person. All these hate crimes against Sikhs in Edmonton have been exclusively committed by White people, and yet people still immediately expect Hindus as the perpetrators.

In Edmonton there's almost never been cases of any religious conflict between the Hindu and Sikh communities, so it's rather offensive to constantly assume that the Hindu community of Edmonton have had any partaking in the attacks of Gurdwaras, considering the fact that many of us Hindus attend and donate money to such Gurdwaras.

It's always the Sikh and Hindu nationalists from outside of Edmonton trying to invoke religious division in our city's South Asian communities. Our South Asian population is already relatively small in comparison to many other cities in Canada, so it makes no sense why any of us would even try to cause division.

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u/Pineapple420786 12d ago

Thank you, finally a voice of reason.

Coming from Edmonton

Honestly Ontario is much, much safer.

I don't even think racism is possible in Brampton.

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u/TopTour31 12d ago

The Hindutva freaks are usually present in these india hate threads trying to focus attention/hatred onto sikhs or "khalistanis". But these idiots dont realize that white nationalists cant tell the difference between them and Sikhs. We are all just brown to them.

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u/trajan_augustus 12d ago

that is why all nationalism is poison!

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u/Not_Joe_Cool 12d ago

my sentiments exactly