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Narasaki  \nEvery one of us has the capacity and the responsibility to step forward to protect our most cherished freedoms.  \n–Karen K. Narasaki  \nPresident, Asian American Justice Center  \nIn August of 2001, Amric Singh Rathour, a newly  \nsworn-in officer of the New York Police Department (NYPD), was abruptly fired by his employer. The cause for Amric’s termination was not any moral delinquency, but rather a violation of the NYPD’s dress code. A practicing Sikh American, Amric was fired from his job because he refused to remove his turban while on police duty, an act that would have violated a major tenet of the Sikh religion.  \nI understood personally the kind of suspicion, distrust and hostility these communities were facing. I myself am an American citizen of Japanese descent; my parents and their families were interned during World War II without due process despite the fact that they were also born here and also were citizens.  \n [asianamericanedu.org](asianamericanedu.org) [2](2 aasc.ucla.edu)[ aasc.ucla.edu](2 aasc.ucla.edu)  \nWhat I find inspiring about Amric’s struggle  \nto oppose the discriminatory uniform  \npolicy of the NYPD was the courage it took to assert his civil liberties at a time when individual rights were under siege and racial and religious discrimination were on the rise.  \nWeeks after Amric’s termination, our nation suffered a great tragedy when terrorism struck our country on September 11, 2001. The terrorist attacks, however, triggered a new backlash of discrimination against members of Arab, Muslim and South Asian American communities. In 2001, there were 481 anti-Islamic hate crime incidents, a far greater figure than the 28 incidents that had occurred in 2000. Sikh Americans, often mistaken as Muslim due to their wearing of turbans and beards as part of their religious practices, were the victims of 133 reported hate crimes in just the first five days following the September 11 attacks.  \nWhy Was an NYPD Police Officer Dismissed for Wearing a Turban?  \nmric had a desire to serve his community.  \nA  \nHe decided to pursue this goal by becoming  \na New York City police officer. After passing his civil service exam, as well as a psychological and physical test, Amric was sworn in as a member of the NYPD.  \nWhen he began his police training, Amric was informed that the uniform dress code of the NYPD would not permit him to wear his customary turban. As a practicing Sikh, Amric wore a traditional turban in accordance with the observation of his religious faith. A police representative told Amric that instead of his traditional turban, he would have to wear a smaller turban under a standard issue officer’s hat. As the training program continued, however, his superior officers began to express that even the smaller turban would not be acceptable.  \nAccepting his superior officers’ previously stated position on the uniform policy, Amric believed he had the right to keep wearing his turban. He continued to wear his turban to police training sessions until one day his superior officers removed him from his class.“I was shocked that they would show so little respect to me, right in front of my fellow officers,” Amric said. Amric was then placed in another room and told that he would not be able to join his fellow classmates until he removed his turban.  \nThe next day, Amric returned to work wearing not only a turban, but the traditional, full-sized turban he had worn prior to the beginning of the training program.“At that point, I felt as though there was no point in changing how I practiced my religion if the police force was not going to honor its end of the bargain.” His superior officers again removed him  \nDiversity in the United States: South Asian Americans  \nSouth Asian Americans represent a small but growing popul","cbCaihHp578iS8VS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihHp578iS8VS","pdf",2477004,"English","# Amric Singh Rathour’s Dismissal\n## Turban and NYPD Uniform Policy Conflict\n# Diversity in the United States: South Asian Americans\n## Population and Origins\n## Religious Diversity\n# The September 11 Attacks: Discrimination and Hate Crimes\n## Rising Hate Crimes After 9/11","[{\"question\":\"Why was Amric Singh Rathour dismissed by the NYPD in 2001?\",\"answer\":\"He was fired because he violated the NYPD dress code by refusing to remove his turban while on police duty.\"},{\"question\":\"How did September 11, 2001 affect discrimination against certain communities?\",\"answer\":\"The attacks triggered a renewed wave of discrimination and a sharp increase in anti-Islamic hate crimes targeting Arab, Muslim, and South Asian American communities.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of religious diversity exist among South Asian Americans?\",\"answer\":\"South Asian Americans practice many religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Sikhism, and Zoroastrianism.\"}]","A Citizen Fights for His Civil Rights after 9/11 - Amric Singh Rathour | PDF",1792132255]