Briefly explain the reasons why some Americans may wrongly assume a Sikh to be a part of the Taliban.
What will be an ideal response?
A number of Sikhs in the United States have been under suspicion and have sometimes experienced outright opposition and occasional violence, as "Muslim terrorists." Some events in the aftermath of the attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, have done "collateral damage" to Sikhs in the Western world. Al-Qaeda, the Afghanistan-based group that launched these attacks, was aligned in Afghanistan with the Taliban movement of Sunni Islam. The Taliban has a "dress code" for men quite similar to the way members of the Khalsa dress. For almost entirely coincidental reasons, both Taliban Afghanis and observant Sikhs do not cut their hair or beards, and they both wear turbans. (Taliban members do not wear the kirpan knife, however.) Although people in south Asia have the "cultural intelligence" to tell them apart, many residents of the United States do not. REJ: Please see the section "Sikhism around the World Today" for more information.
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