In the days after the 9/11 attacks, a T-shirt with a reassuring message became increasingly visible on the London Underground. “Don’t freak, I’m a Sikh.” It was a reference to the hostility directed at turban-wearing men in US, because some Americans mistakenly believed their facial hair and headgear revealed them as members of Osama bin Laden’s al Qaida and Taliban.
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