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Greetings:<br><br>
The only religion I know that requires its male devotees to wear a turban
is Sikhism. Some Hindu males, primarily in Rajasthan, wear turbans,
which, depending on their color, mark caste and marital status.<br><br>
Right after 9-11, a Sikh taxi driver in a California town was dragged
from his taxi and beating to death because he was thought to be an
Arab. His murderers have finally been sentenced. American
ignorance in all areas will be our ultimate undoing.<br><br>
By the way, Sikhs do not speak Arabic; they speak Punjabi and have their
own separate religion. Iranian Islamic mullahs wear turbans, but they are
not Arabs and they speak Farsi not Arabic. <br><br>
Hundreds of millions of Muslim men, primarily in Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, and the Philippines do not wear any
special headgear, but you will see a lot of "Sukarno" hats in
Indonesia and Malaysia. They are of different "races,"
and only a handful of these Muslims speak Arabic as a mother
tongue.<br><br>
Finally, just to put terrorist acts in perspective, more than half the
suicide bombers in the world have been Hindu and Christian Tamils in Sri
Lanka, who do not wear any special headgear and who act for
socio-economic reasons not religious ones.<br><br>
So let's just be clear: Comparatively few Muslims are Arabs, and
very few of them wear in particular headgear. And "race,"
whatever that is, has nothing to do with it.<br><br>
Nick Gier<br>
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<font size=2>"Truth is the summit of being; justice is the
application of it to human affairs."<br>
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (Thanks, Jennifer McFarland, for this
quote<br><br>
"Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings
who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."<br>
--Mohandas Gandhi<br><br>
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