Spiritual: Sikhs wear turbans due to their
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Community and forces Walmart to remove it
Sikh community has pressured Walmart into pulling a turban-themed costume from its website calling it ‘insulting’ and tells the retailer to use more 'common sense' in future.
The Sikh Coalition offered an image of the original costume and the al-Qaeda leader, Osama Bin Laden, as part of their letter.
The group also sent letters to retailers such as Amazon.com, which listed the costume under the banner ‘Fun World Adult Men’s Osama Bin Laden Middle East Costume Turban + Beard’.
Walmart described it as ‘Turban Beard Adult Halloween Instant Costume’.
The costume appears to be manufactured by Fun World Costumes, and is for sale on the sites of retailers such as Sears and Rite Aid, among others.
Rajdeep Singh, Director of Law and Policy at The Sikh Coalition, told The Huffington Post he doubts the costume would make people who had lost loved ones in the 9/11 attacks comfortable.
A Walmart spokesperson said they ‘disabled this item for purchase and are in the process of immediately removing it from our site’, according to the Post.
‘We sincerely apologise to any customers who may have been offended by this costume.’
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