We're not sure if you've noticed, but people get pretty uptight about religious beliefs. As a comedy site, that is beyond our purview. All we can really do is point out some of the ridiculous things some folks think they know about other religions. And we're not just talking about the stuff your bigoted uncle all-caps on Facebook: There are some "facts" about religion that even entirely normal and balanced people who do not believe chemtrails are made by Jewish dragons think are true.

5 The Sikhs Don't Have Anything To Do With Islam

Take a quick look at this man.

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"I get 'randomly selected' quite a bit."

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This is Waris Ahluwalia, who was not allowed on an airplane to New York because he refused to remove his turban. Now, while that sounds like a pretty stupid reason to deny a Muslim on a flight, it becomes even stupider when you realize he isn't a Muslim, but a Sikh.

They sort of look like they could be Muslims or whatever, which unfortunately is all the excuse the rest of the world needs: In the first month after 9/11, there were more than 300 documented cases of violence against Sikhs. An utterly unprovoked shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in 2012 left six people dead, and was in all likelihood driven by anti-Muslim sentiment. In Fresno, a few weeks after the San Bernardino attack, Sikh Amrik Singh Bal was beaten and hit with a truck. One completely innocent Canadian Sikh was blamed for three separate terrorist attacks, when a Photoshopped photo of him went viral after the Paris massacres:

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So just a heads up when you see this inevitability pop up next time.

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60 percent of Americans admit that they know nothing at all about the Sikh religion, which just so happens to be the fifth largest in the world. The Sikh are generally considered some odd offshoot of Islam (or Hindu religion, seeing as the overwhelming majority of Sikhs are from India), when they're considered at all.