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https://globalnews.ca/news/8325615/sikh-society-of-calgary-gurdwara-graffiti-october-2021/

Racist graffiti in Calgary’s southwest considered a hate crime: police

By Karen Bartko , Sarah Offin & Jodi Hughes  Global News
Posted October 26, 2021 10:02 am
 Updated October 26, 2021 7:20 pm

The Calgary Police Service (CPS) is classifying a racist graffiti incident in southwest Calgary a hate crime.

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On Monday night, the words “diaper heads” and “cow f—ers” were found spray-painted on the road leading to the Sikh Society of Calgary‘s Gurdwara Sahib in the West Springs neighbourhood.

“It hurts your feelings,” president Balihar Singh Dhillon said. “I won’t lie, it does hurt us. But, at the same time, just closing your eyes – it will not solve the problem. You cannot put it under the rug. It has to be exposed.”

In a news release Tuesday afternoon CPS said it believes the graffiti was added sometime between 9 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021 and 7 a.m. the next morning.

The two phrases had been written in white along 81 Street and Old Banff Coach Road S.W. with arrows pointing towards the gurdwara, which is at 739 – 81 St. S.W.

Calgary police are investigating after offensive graffiti was spray-painted on the road leading into the Dashmesh Culture Centre’s Gurdwara Sahib in the southwest Gurdwara Sahib of West Springs on Monday.

 

 

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