The Gentlemen’s Quarterly has featured Manik Singh, another keshadhari Sikh, in its magazine , after the Waris Ahluwalia’s GAP advertisement.The Gentlemen Quarterly is a fashion magazine that is having no connection with Sikhi.Even than they have decided to feature a Sikh Model that has been welcomed with surprise.
Since the 9/11 attacks,Sikhs have repeatedly endured violence and bigotry throughout the World because of their religiously-mandated turbans.In August 2012,a gunman with known ties with neo nazi group attacked on a Sikh’s worship place Oak Creek, Wisconsin, that leads to killing six worshipers and injuring several others, including a local law enforcement officer.
In the months after the massacre,a Sikh octogenarian was beaten with a steel rod in Fresno, California; and a Sikh professor was assaulted in New York, New York.Despite Sikhs being an integral part of the United Sikhs of America racism against Sikhs has increased over the past few years.