Anti-Sikh graffiti on California gurdwara

Washington, Sept. 6: A gurdwara in the US state of California has been vandalised with hate messages scrawled on its walls, including one calling for “nuking” Sikhs.

The incident took place at the Vermont Gurdwara in Los Angeles, also known as the Hollywood Sikh Temple.

A witness confronted the vandal and caught him on cell phone footage walking away from the gurdwara’s wall without any explanation, NBC Los Angeles reported.

“I said I was going to call the police on him at which point he said he felt threatened,” said Karna Ray, the witness who filmed the vandalism. “He said, ‘I will slit your throat’.”

Hollywood police were investigating the hate messages.

Mr Ray, who is from New York, was visiting a friend on Thursday when he saw the man writing long incoherent messages with a black maker on the pristine white wall of the gurdwara and started recording him with his cell phone. He then uploaded the video on Facebook and received thousands of comments.

Mr Ray was particularly disturbed by one of three separate passages calling for the “nuking” of Sikhs, according to Fox 11. According to a Facebook post by Mr Ray, the vandal flashed a razor at him as he made his threat. Mr Ray said the hateful message left on the walls of the gurdwara counters everything the Sikh community stands for.