Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/139077_911sikh11.html

On September 11, 2003 Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran a follow-up article on Karnail "Kail" Singh, "a Renton resident, India native, world traveler, poet, writer...SeaTac motel owner," and Sikh who was the victim of a hate crime after Sept. 11, 2001. "Nearly two years later, when someone asks him about the assault or when he hears about others being attacked for their ethnicity or national origin, 'it reminds me of everything. All the pictures come back,' Singh said. 'I become conscious of myself, what I'm doing, where I'm going.'

Bethel [the assailant] was sentenced last year to nearly two years in prison for assault with a deadly weapon, which carries a stiffer penalty than malicious harassment, the state's only hate crime.

Two years doesn't seem a harsh enough sentence, said Singh, a U.S. citizen.

Though he took down his Sikh calendar in the motel lobby to be on the safe side, he still sports a sticker in the back window of his SUV that reads, 'I'm proud to be a Sikh.'"