06-02-2006, 09:22 PM
<b>Bigots target Hindu family </b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--> <b>We Kill U.
We will Fire your house.
Watch Your Kids.</b>
Those threats and other profanities -- spray-painted on a two-story house in black and orange and neon green -- are terrorizing a Wayne family of five who police say have been singled out for their Hindu beliefs and Asian Indian roots.
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Such is their fear that the couple, who moved into the new house in the Toms Lake community in November, asked that their name not be published. Several times during an interview Wednesday, the couple stopped talking and stared at cars that had slowed or stopped on the street in front of their house.
Police made the crime public for the first time on Wednesday, while acknowledging the family also had received a series of hateful letters and found threats painted on their garage door in January. No one had been arrested as of late Wednesday.
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News of the hate crime came as a shock to Jyoti Gandhi, a lay Hindu leader and past president of Arya Samaj of New Jersey, a Hindu group that meets in Ridgewood. She said she has never felt discrimination in her home of Saddle River or in the town where she worships.
<b>"I'm very surprised, to say the least, that this would happen here," she said. But she speculated that many bias crimes against Hindus may go unreported.</b>
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"A lot of times the Hindu families don't say anything," she said. "They just swallow it to keep the peace."</span>
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We will Fire your house.
Watch Your Kids.</b>
Those threats and other profanities -- spray-painted on a two-story house in black and orange and neon green -- are terrorizing a Wayne family of five who police say have been singled out for their Hindu beliefs and Asian Indian roots.
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Such is their fear that the couple, who moved into the new house in the Toms Lake community in November, asked that their name not be published. Several times during an interview Wednesday, the couple stopped talking and stared at cars that had slowed or stopped on the street in front of their house.
Police made the crime public for the first time on Wednesday, while acknowledging the family also had received a series of hateful letters and found threats painted on their garage door in January. No one had been arrested as of late Wednesday.
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News of the hate crime came as a shock to Jyoti Gandhi, a lay Hindu leader and past president of Arya Samaj of New Jersey, a Hindu group that meets in Ridgewood. She said she has never felt discrimination in her home of Saddle River or in the town where she worships.
<b>"I'm very surprised, to say the least, that this would happen here," she said. But she speculated that many bias crimes against Hindus may go unreported.</b>
<span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>
"A lot of times the Hindu families don't say anything," she said. "They just swallow it to keep the peace."</span>
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