NewsLo
  • Today’s Headlines
  • Featured
  • US
  • Politics
  • World
  • Media
  • Sports
  • Privacy Policy
Subscribe
NewsLo
NewsLo
  • Home
  • Business
    • Accounting
    • Advertising
    • Branding
    • Career
    • Customer Service
    • Cyber Security
    • Entrepreneur
    • Jobs
    • Management
    • Marketing
    • Non Profit
    • Search Engine Optimization
    • Sales
    • Web Design
  • Finance
    • Banking
    • Bankruptcy
    • Budgeting
    • Credit
    • Debt
    • Estate Wills & Trusts
    • Home Improvements
    • Law
    • Loans
    • Personal Finance
    • Taxes
    • Shopping
  • Investment
    • Crypto Currency
    • Gold & Silver
    • Hard Assets
    • Real Estate
    • Retirement
    • Stocks & Bonds
    • Trading
  • Real Estate
    • Buying
    • Selling
    • Commercial Construction
    • Construction Law
    • Home Improvement
    • Loans
    • Property Management
    • Real Estate Laws
    • Rental Property
  • Insurance
    • Auto Insurance
    • Commercial Real Estate Insurance
    • Crop Insurance
    • Dental Insurance
    • Disability Insurance
    • Health Insurance
    • Home Owners Insurance
    • Identity Theft Protection
    • Insurance Law
    • Investment Insurance
  • Contact Us
  • US

Survey: 78% of Americans Disappointed Sikhs Aren’t Muslims

  • September 25, 2013
  • News Lo

NEW YORK — A survey conducted by researchers at the University of Southern Pennsylvania has revealed that 78 percent of those surveyed were either “disappointed, dismayed or confused” when informed that Sikhism is not the same thing as Islam.

Lead researcher Dr. Michael Stanley said that his team showed each participant photographs of male Sikhs wearing turbans, asked the participant to identify the man in the photograph’s religion, and then recorded the participant’s reaction after they were informed he was not Muslim.

The report included a number of statements made by participants after discovering their confusion. “I can’t remember the last time I was this upset,” said one participant from Nyack, New York. “How can they not be together? This feels like my parent’s divorce all over again.” A participant from Marion, Indiana was described as “viscerally angry” because she had “spent most of [her] life hating those people with the things on their heads, and now you’re telling me it was a waste of time?”

The survey’s results were released against a backdrop of violence stemming from such confusion, Recently, a Sikh professor at Columbia University in Manhattan was attacked and called  “Osama” and “terrorist” by his assailants, and a school in Hendersonville, Tennessee, recently cancelled field trips to a mosque and a Hindu temple after parental pressure.

A Stanford University survey released earlier this month which showed similar results indicated that 70 percent of Americans did not recognize Sikhs wearing turbans, and 29 percent thought Sikhism was a sect of Islam. Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Stanley noted that, in their survey, 43 percent responded to the false notion that Sikhism is a denomination of Islam with some variation of “Wait, Islam has denominations now?”

Related Topics
  • 78%
  • Hate crimes
  • news humor and satire
  • Sikhs
Avatar of News Lo
News Lo

Previous Article
  • Today's Headlines
  • World

Old Pope Blasts New Pope as Homosexual Sinner

  • September 25, 2013
  • News Lo
View Post
Next Article
  • DC
  • Politics

GOP, Dems Introduce Bipartisan ‘Deport Ted Cruz’ Legislation

  • September 25, 2013
  • News Lo
View Post
NewsLo
  • Today’s Headlines
  • Featured
  • US
  • Politics
  • World
  • Media
  • Sports
  • Privacy Policy
Navigating the world of finance, one step at a time.

Input your search keywords and press Enter.