Top 10 incidences of prejudice/discrimination:
Gurmej Atwal was shot and killed in Elk Grove, California. He was with his friend Surinder Singh who was also shot to death. This is seen as a hate crime because there was no obvious motive for him to be shot and he was not robbed.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/topic/ktxl-the-second-victim-of-a-possibly-raciallymotivated-shooting-in-elk-grove-has-died-20110415,0,270285.story
On the day after September 11th, Sher Singh was going home on an Amtrak train in Providence, Rhode Island. Singh was mistaken for being a terrorist sought out by the FBI and was made to be a criminal on national media.
http://www.realsikhism.com/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1210912450&ucat=8#sthash.qribkcf7.dpuf
In October 2001, Swaran Kaur Bhullar stopped at a stoplight. Men on a motorcycle pulled up next to her and yanked her door open and stabbed her while saying, “This is what you get for what you’ve done to our country.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2002/sep/11/nation/na-911bhullar11
Mosque set on fire
http://www.khou.com/news/local/Authorities-investigate-suspicious-fire-at--121863784.html
On September 21th, 2001, Ali Almasoop faced a hate crime as he was killed at his home in Detroit, Michigan. He was a native Yemeni and was mistaken by his killer to be a terrorist.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/11/us/immigrants-going-by-joe-not-yussef-but-still-feeling-like-an-outcast.html?pagewanted=3#sthash.qribkcf7.dpuf
On June 9th, 2008, Gurprit Kaur’s hair was cut off by another student who knew she maintained it for religious reasons. Her classmates would taunt her and her brother, saying to her brother that he is a terrorist and had a bomb on his head.
http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/GurpritHateAssault.htm
On September 15, 2001, Waqar Hassan faced a hate crime when mark Stroman shot and killed him at a convenience store. Stroman was on a shooting spree and explained that he, “did it to retaliate on local Arab Americans or whatever you want to call them.”
http://www.themediaoasis.com/hatevictims.html
On November 28th 2010, Harbhajan Singh, a cab driver, picked up 2 men in Sacramento. Singh was forced to drive intoWest Sacramento and to give his money. After Singh handed over his money, the two men started beating him profusely and calling him Osama Bin Laden. He was treated with multiple stitches on his head and other parts of his body. He also sustained a bruised rib cage –
http://www.fox40.com/news/headlines/ktxl-robbery-or-hate-crime-sacramen-112810,0,6781447.story
On November 24th 2007, Sukhvir Singh, a cab driver, was assaulted by a drunk passenger who started calling him a terrorist and threatened to kill him. Vasquez beat Singh, punching him repeatedly in the face and biting a piece of his scalp off.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004039447_cabdriver28m.html
On September 29th, 2001, Abdo Ali Ahmed was shot and killed outside his convenience store in Reedley, California. Ahmed was a 51 year old Yemeni man and was a father of 8. Two days before the attack a note was left on his car windshield saying, “We’re going to kill all (expletive) arabs.”
http://articles.sfgate.com/2001-10-04/news/17621406_1_attacks-town-killing