I see the point the article is trying to make and I think it is right but I also think it is fair for the Sikh community to try and rais awarenss of their own religion. Sikhs have litteraly fought for hundreds of years to differentiate themselves from all other religions, Sikhs are welcoming of all regardless of faith but are a proud people who deserve to have their own identity recognized. The bigger issue is that because of ignorance too many in the West fail to see the differences between Sikhs and Muslims and this hurts as they are robbing Sikhs of their own culture and blaming Sikhs, wrongly, for the crimes of others. As a Sikh I am all to familiar with this and it is more than a little insulting to be robbed of your own proud culture, identity and history. Of course it would be equally as sad for a Mosque to have been targeted in this way but for Sikhs to be targeted through nothing else but pure ignorance is so wrong. The fact is time an again Sikhs are targeted out of pure ignorance because they are perceived to be Muslims Sikhs have been murdered and Gurdwaras burnt down because they are thought to be Mosques. It is like these idiots targetting Jews or Hindus for thiniking they were somehow Muslims.
Sikhs in the West should have the right to their own identidy and not constantly be mistaken for Muslims. Or anescestors fought and died for this right and our religion it is criminal that people in the 21st still can't tell the difference between a Sikh and Muslim.
Sikhs aren't saying kill the Muslims but are saying stop attacking us because you think we are Muslims.