Sikh removed from Trump rally says would continue protest

January 26, 2016 14:37

A turbaned Sikh, who was forced out of Donald Trump's election rally after he protested the Republican presidential frontrunner's anti-Muslim speeches with a 'Stop Hate' banner, has said that he plans to take his peaceful protests to other rallies of the real-estate tycoon. Arish Singh, a former editor of a local newspaper 'Little Village' and a comedian, was thrown out of a Trump rally in Iowa on Sunday after he interrupted Trump's signature anti-Muslim speech by displaying the banner.

"I am a not a Muslim. But you don't have to be a Muslim to stand against anti-Muslim bigotry," Singh, a resident of Chicago, tweeted yesterday afternoon.

"I did interrupt him. I did say, 'why do you give shelter to white supremacists. Why do we have white supremacists robocalling in Iowa?' I did say that as we dropped the banner," Singh told the publication in an interview.

Singh said that he decided to interrupt the speech due to a series of remarks by Trump '" such as his suggestion that the US ban all Muslim immigrants '" which have coincided with a rise in incidents of xenophobia and bigotry against Sikhs and Muslim Americans.

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