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There seems to be a growing trend with randomly creating and joining "funny" Facebook groups.

But over the last couple of days, people have been seeming to create groups about turbans.

Most have been fine, not regarding us, however I came across this one:

Facebook - my turban brings the taliban to the yard, & their like, we wanna bomb cars

The name itself is just not funny, and the picture used is that of a Nihang Sikh! CLearly made by someone with total ignorance about Sikhi, and to make it worse people are joining and writing racist stuff for no reason whatsoever :(

It is making me very upset. I have told al my friends about it and we have reported the group, I would be grateful if the sangat of this website could do the same.

I'm just amazed at how much ignorance there is in this world. :(

Sunny Singh

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

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Done that already, Facebook don't seem to do it unless people report in the masses. I remember a year or so back, there was a similar group to this, reporting it alone did not achieve anything, however I spread the word about this group to my friends and soon hundreds of people had reported it, and Facebook had to take action and remove it.

It just saddens me to see the amount of racism in the world :(

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seriously, people are abusing 'freedom of speech' excessively nowadays.

This is not the first group either sunny veer, nearly 2 weeks ago I also started another thread to report another racist facebook fanpage group.Had to make a request for everyone to report:

I remember reporting atleast 6 times <_< it was only taken down 4 days ago. The FB people only respond when the get high number of reports :sad:

Also, the white Caucasian youths between the age 12-40 are very prone into joining such groups to crack fun and laugh at racist jokes about other.Some, even make nasty racist jokes. <_<

this is very disturbing....

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seriously, people are abusing 'freedom of speech' excessively nowadays.

This is not the first group either sunny veer, nearly 2 weeks ago I also started another thread to report another racist facebook fanpage group.Had to make a request for everyone to report:

http://www.sikhsanga...towards-dastar/

I remember reporting atleast 6 times <_< it was only taken down 4 days ago. The FB people only respond when the get high number of reports :sad:

Also, the white Caucasian youths between the age 12-40 are very prone into joining such groups to crack fun and laugh at racist jokes about other.Some, even make nasty racist jokes. <_<

this is very disturbing....

Haanji Veerji, I know what you mean :(

I just noticed that the creator of the group I reported has now changed the pic, and it is no longer a Sikh. However, there is still the huge problem of ignorance on Facebook.

The thing I find most annoying is that many people calling themselves "Sikhs" (I don't view them as Sikhs really, they are not following any of the Sikh principles really) get all angry on these pages and start swearing and being racist back. I explain to them that this does not help at all, and they are only making things worse, but then they start being abusive to me as well!

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Sat Sri Akal,

Enough people reported the group and facebook didn't delete it, but they banned any commenting on it so that no-one could write anything.

However, a couple of days ago that ban was lifted!

This is getting ridiculous, because of the influence of that group people are creating loads of other turban-related groups, spawning more offensiveness and hatred, and there are now hundreds of those groups which people seem to think are "funny".

:(

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who is creating all of these groups, there are too many... It feels like some kind of unprovoked attack, i hope facebook deal with it

I hope so too :(

The one I initially linked to has been shut down, however there are hundreds more, the most prominent called "lmto - laughing my turban off", which has 150,000 fans :(

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