Sikh Professor Responds To Hate Crime Attack With 'Gratitude'

"I'm thankful for a few reasons. If they had attacked me any more violently, I may not be awake right now to tell my story. If they had attacked me even half an hour earlier, they would have harmed my wife and one-year-old son. And if they had attacked me anywhere else, I may not have had bystanders there to save me." (quoted from the Huffington Post Story)

Prabhjot Singh is a professor at Columbia University and a Sikh.  He wrote about the murder of Sikhs in a temple in Wisconsin last year. Now he is a victim.  A few  days ago he was beaten by a gang of boys.

You can read the story here at the Huffington Post. Here is another story from the New York Times and from India Ink.