when i was in college i lived in an off campus apartment with some friends.
a Sikh lived below us...he kept his heat on blast so we saved money on heating.
shortly after 9/11 he was gone for a couple of weeks.
when he came back we said hello and asked where he had been.
he told us that his uncle owned a gas station in Texas and that someone beat him and set him on fire because they thought he was a Muslim.
he had a crisp American flag bumper sticker on his car when he got back...he probably loved America before his uncle was murdered but he was rocking that flag out of fear and that is sad.