Second Hindu temple gets vandalized in Washington state

[ashok mourya]

Windows smashed, ‘Fear’ written on wall of Kent Hindu Temple.

AB Wire


WASHINGTON, DC: First it was the Hindu temple in Bothell, and now it’s the turn of the Sanatam Dharam temple in Kent – both towns are in the suburbs of Seattle in Washington state – to be vandalized by unknown miscreants, this month.
ABC’s local affiliate Komo-TV reported that the person or miscreants used bricks to break several windows of the Kent Hindu Temple and then painted the word “fear” on the wall, late Thursday night.

Earlier this month, someone spray painted a swastika and the words “get out” on the Hindu temple in Bothell, on February 15.

Bricks were used to smash every window of the building and parts of the structure were ripped apart, reported Komo-TV.

“The crime is small-minded with big intentions, shattering calm with hate,” John Humbert, reporter at Komo-TV said. “Silence isn’t the answer.”

Arsalan Bukahari with the Washington Council on American-Islamic Relations said many of these acts of aggression target smaller religious groups that some bigots think are Muslim.

“Because they choose to target certain places, we have a hunch that it might be biased motivated,” Bukahari said. “When a place of worship gets attacked, it’s a little late. I think the time to respond is when hate rhetoric is promoted,” he said.

The Kent temple doesn’t have security cameras, and info on the vandals remains elusive — just like in the Bothell case, reported Komo News. Police are investigating both crimes.

KING5-TV, a Seattle NBC affiliate, reported that the Kent Hindu Temple was set to observe ‘Amalaki Ekadashi’ on Saturday.

Several attacks on Hindu temples have taken place across the US in the last few months, noted IANS. In August, a murti (idol) of Shiva at the Vishwa Bhavan Hindu Mandir in Monroe in the state of Georgia was desecrated with black paint. The local sheriff’s office arrested two people in connection with the attack.

Between July and October in Loudon county in Virginia, police have documented 17 separate incidents of anti-Hindu vandalism, the Hindu American Foundation said.

 

[ashok mourya]

Second Hindu temple gets vandalized in Washington state - The American Bazaar

 

[unbiasedopinion]

This needs to be properly investigation and should be nipped in the bud before getting out of hands. These types of incidents unnecessary creates tensions in the society.

 

[Arya Desa]

America needs to check their religious intolerance.

 

[ashok mourya]

Intolerance in american society is at all time high.

History atrocities against Hindus in United States
See also: Dotbusters
Hindu immigrants constitute approximately 0.5% of the total population of the United States. They are also the second most affluent religious group after the Jews. Hindus in the US enjoy both de jure and de facto legal equality. However, a series of attacks were made on people Indian origin by a street gang called the "Dotbusters" in New Jersey in 1987, the dot signifying the Bindi dot sticker worn on the forehead by Indian women.[184] The lackadaisical attitude of the local police prompted the South Asian community to arrange small groups all across the state to fight back against the street gang. The perpetrators have been put to trial. On 2 January 2012, a Hindu worship center in New York City was firebombed.[185]

The Dotbusters was a hate group in Jersey City, New Jersey, that attacked and threatened South Asians in the fall of 1987. The name originated from the fact that traditional Hindu women and girls wear a bindi on their forehead. In July 1987, they had a letter published in the Jersey Journal[186] stating that they would take any means necessary to drive the Indians out of Jersey City:

I'm writing about your article during July about the abuse of Indian People. Well I'm here to state the other side. I hate them, if you had to live near them you would also. We are an organization called dot busters. We have been around for 2 years. We will go to any extreme to get Indians to move out of Jersey City. If I'm walking down the street and I see a Hindu and the setting is right, I will hit him or her. We plan some of our most extreme attacks such as breaking windows, breaking car windows, and crashing family parties. We use the phone books and look up the name Patel. Have you seen how many of them there are? Do you even live in Jersey City? Do you walk down Central avenue and experience what its like to be near them: we have and we just don't want it anymore. You said that they will have to start protecting themselves because the police cannot always be there. They will never do anything. They are a week [sic] race Physically and mentally. We are going to continue our way. We will never be stopped.[187]

Later that month, a group of youths attacked Navroze Mody, an Indian man of Parsi (Persian) origin, who was mistaken for a Hindu, after he had left the Gold Coast Cafe with his friend who fell into a coma. Mody died four days later. The four convicted of the attack were Luis Acevedo, Ralph Gonzalez and Luis Padilla - who were convicted of aggravated assault; and William Acevedo - who was convicted of simple assault. The attack was with fists and feet and with an unknown object that was described as either a baseball bat or a brick, and occurred after members of the group, which was estimated as being between ten and twelve youths, had surrounded Mr. Mody and taunted him for his baldness as either "Kojak" or "baldie". Mody's father, Jamshid Mody, later brought charges against the city and police force of Hoboken, New Jersey, claiming that "the Hoboken police's indifference to acts of violence perpetrated against Asian Indians violated Navroze Mody's equal protection rights" under the Fourteenth Amendment.[188] Mody lost the case; the court ruled that the attack had not been proven a hate crime, nor had there been proven any malfeasance by the police or prosecutors of the city.[188]

A few days after the attack on Mody, another Indian was beaten into a coma; this time on a busy street corner in Jersey City Heights. The victim, Kaushal Saran, was found unconscious at Central and Ferry Avenues, near a city park and firehouse, according to police reports. Saran, a licensed physician in India who was awaiting licensing in the United States, was discharged later from University Hospital in Newark.[189] The unprovoked attack left Saran in a partial coma for over a week with severe damage to his skull and brain. In September 1992, Thomas Kozak, Martin Ricciardi, and Mark Evangelista were brought to trial on federal civil rights charges in connection with the attack on Saran. However, the three were acquitted of the charges in two separate trials in 1993. Saran testified at both trials that he could not remember the incident.[190]

 

[Diggy]

Yep Abraham Lincoln would have got an heart attack after seeing so much of religious intolerance in United states.

 

[ashok mourya]

Obama needs first educate Americans what is Hinduism and how it is different from Islam.Most of the cases of attack are misidentify because of lack of education.

 

[Ryuzaki]

USA is lawless country

 

[DrawingDead]

Obama needs first educate Americans what is Hinduism and how it is different from Islam.Most of the cases of attack are misidentify because of lack of education.

So what you're saying is that you're ok with attacks on Muslims but have a problem when your temple gets some graffiti on it?

 

[SarthakGanguly]

Windows smashed, ‘Fear’ written on wall of Kent Hindu Temple.

AB Wire


WASHINGTON, DC: First it was the Hindu temple in Bothell, and now it’s the turn of the Sanatam Dharam temple in Kent – both towns are in the suburbs of Seattle in Washington state – to be vandalized by unknown miscreants, this month.
ABC’s local affiliate Komo-TV reported that the person or miscreants used bricks to break several windows of the Kent Hindu Temple and then painted the word “fear” on the wall, late Thursday night.

Earlier this month, someone spray painted a swastika and the words “get out” on the Hindu temple in Bothell, on February 15.

Bricks were used to smash every window of the building and parts of the structure were ripped apart, reported Komo-TV.

“The crime is small-minded with big intentions, shattering calm with hate,” John Humbert, reporter at Komo-TV said. “Silence isn’t the answer.”

Arsalan Bukahari with the Washington Council on American-Islamic Relations said many of these acts of aggression target smaller religious groups that some bigots think are Muslim.

“Because they choose to target certain places, we have a hunch that it might be biased motivated,” Bukahari said. “When a place of worship gets attacked, it’s a little late. I think the time to respond is when hate rhetoric is promoted,” he said.

The Kent temple doesn’t have security cameras, and info on the vandals remains elusive — just like in the Bothell case, reported Komo News. Police are investigating both crimes.

KING5-TV, a Seattle NBC affiliate, reported that the Kent Hindu Temple was set to observe ‘Amalaki Ekadashi’ on Saturday.

Several attacks on Hindu temples have taken place across the US in the last few months, noted IANS. In August, a murti (idol) of Shiva at the Vishwa Bhavan Hindu Mandir in Monroe in the state of Georgia was desecrated with black paint. The local sheriff’s office arrested two people in connection with the attack.

Between July and October in Loudon county in Virginia, police have documented 17 separate incidents of anti-Hindu vandalism, the Hindu American Foundation said.

We need an education campaign there. These neo nazis are so confused. At least know what you hate.

So what you're saying is that you're ok with attacks on Muslims but have a problem when you're temple gets some graffiti on it?

Superb comprehension skills.

 

[root]

Payback time. Don't get Butt hurt now.

 

[Diggy]

We need an education campaign there. These neo nazis are so confused. At least know what you hate.

Its happens all the time , a gunman had attacked a sikh gurdwara and he thought they were taliban

 

[DrawingDead]

Its happens all the time , a gunman had attacked a sikh gurdwara and he thought they were taliban

Well he was an idiot. He'd have shot you for being brown. What is your plan? Make him sit through a class about the cultural intricacies of the Asian continent?

 

[Diggy]

Well he was an idiot. He'd have shot you for being brown. What is your plan? Make him sit through a class about the cultural intricacies of the Asian continent?

sorry edit , dint see the quoted post

well people in asia are not that ignorant about cultures in west or europe as people in US are about south Asians , an indian won't go and kill a german for taking out grudge on what brits did in india. At-least know who you are killing.

 

[DrawingDead]

sorry edit , dint see the quoted post

well people in asia are not that ignorant about cultures in west or europe as people in US are about south Asians , an indian won't go and kill a german for taking out grudge on what brits did in india. At-least know who you are killing.

No, see that's not really true. You have a literacy rate that is close to 30 points lower than ours which means more Indians than the entire population of the US have no idea what Europe or US is. We're all the same to them. What you're doing is trying to compare your educated people with the dumbasses here to make yourself feel better.