“It was a mistake we both deeply regret.”The hosts’ comments reduced Mr. Grewal down to just his faith, said Gurwin Singh Ahuja, co-founder of the National Sikh Campaign. But the real damage came not from dubbing Mr. Grewal “turban man,” he said, but rather the hosts’ clear disregard for what the turban represents to Sikhs. That remark is also what made Mayor Ravi Bhalla of Hoboken, N.J., the state’s first Sikh mayor, and his wife gasp. “That was the dagger in the back,” Mr. Bhalla said. “It was blatantly discriminatory.”“If he was an attorney general who was not a Sikh, he wouldn’t have a problem saying his name,” he added.

Source: New York Times July 27, 2018 00:56 UTC