This is no slogan but a plea printed on a young Sikh's t-shirt to save himself from racial hatred post 7/7 and 7/21 as people in the west continue to confuse Sikhs as Arabs. Given the profile of the turban and the flowing beard Sikhs had faced a similar challenge in the USA post 9/11 as a Sikh gas store owner was shot dead in 2001 in the aftermath. Sikhs in America had devised a unique way of avoiding misdirected racial hatred by pasting bumper stickers on their cars, trucks and vans and on gas stations that said' I'm a non-English-speaking Sikh. Sikhs do not have anything to do with the Arabs. Sikhs mean well for America. God bless America!

With a similar situation in the UK, some Sikhs travelling on undergrounds, trains or cars can be seen wearing t-shirts or having stickers on their vehicles or even rucksacks highlighting differentiation from the Arabs. It's a time to duck for cover says, Gurvinder Singh from Ilford. We need to be careful not to become victims as a lot of people confuse us and our temples as Arabs and mosques respectively. We need to educate them as some hooligans threw bacon in front of an Ilford Gurdawara, a fortnight ago taking it for a mosque, he adds.

I would love to have one of those t-shirts. Isn't it cool and it makes a statement says, 27 years old Ravinder Singh of London who commutes on underground every day. It also gives fellow commuters a reason to feel safe when sitting along with us, he adds.

The problem is severe when youngsters come out of pubs late evening. That is the time to take guard for all brown skinned people says Sanjay Sharma as UK grapples with a problem of drunken pub revellers. They can be nasty, he adds.

(By: Khushwant Singh, Senior Sikhpoint Correspondent)