US gurudwara vandalised with hate graffiti

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 Gurudwara in Los Angeles, also known as the Hollywood Sikh Temple.

A witness confronted the vandal and caught him on cellphone footage walking away from the gurudwara’s wall without any explanation. “I said I was going to call the police, at which point he said he felt threatened,” Karna Ray, the witness who filmed the vandalism, said. “He said, ‘I will slit your throat’.”

The Hollywood police were investigating the hate messages written on the side of the gurudwara.

Ray, who is from New York, was visiting a friend  when he saw the man writing long incoherent messages with a black maker on the pristine white wall of the gurudwara and started recording him with his cell phone.

He then uploaded the video on Facebook and received thousands of comments.

Ray was particularly disturbed by one of three separate passages calling for the “nuking” of Sikhs.

According to a Facebook post by Ray, the vandal flashed a razor at him as he made his threat.