| 看到《TIME》最近一篇報道，是轉載的一篇報道，在新西蘭一名錫克教男士，看到一名男孩頭部受傷流血不止，想也沒想，摘下他頭上的頭巾，墊在男孩頭下，幫忙救助這名小男孩。這一類的事情本來是一個非常平常的事情，可是連《TIME》等大型媒體也大肆轉載，而且把焦點集中在這位救人的是錫克族人士，說他在公共場合摘下頭巾有違他的教規。
這樣的表揚，讓我想起了中共國內經常的樹立道德模範的事情。我覺得這種緊急情況下救人，是不分宗教和種族的，當然，中國大陸人除外，因為大陸道德淪喪了。我覺得沒有必要非要把救人和他的宗教聯繫起來。
錫克教並非極端宗教，和溫和穆斯林教一樣，雖然規定成年教徒在公共場合必須帶頭巾，但是並非極端的教規，在緊急情況下，摘下頭巾救人是可以的，一般不會因此而得到懲罰。
但是，如果把這樣的事情大肆宣揚，特別賦予宗教的涵義而宣揚，我認為不妥，也沒有必要。雖然美國是言論自由的社會，但是大型媒體需要注意宗教的敏感性。
這件事情，就像那位救人的先生所說的，換成任何人遇到這樣的情況，都會這樣做的。所以沒有必要大肆宣揚，特別不能把這樣的事情與宗教聯繫起來。要不然味道就變了。
Sikh Man Breaks Religious Rule and Removes His Turban to Save a Child
"I think anyone else would have done the same as me"
A Sikh man broke strict religious protocol on Friday and removed his turban to help a child who’d been hit by a car outside his home in Auckland.
Harman Singh, 22, saw that the 5-year-old boy’s head was bleeding and acted immediately, removing his turban despite the fact that his religion prohibits him to do so in public.
“I wasn’t thinking about the turban,” Singh told The New Zealand Herald. “I was thinking about the accident and I just thought, ‘He needs something on his head because he’s bleeding.’ That’s my job – to help.”
He added: “I think anyone else would have done the same as me.”
Singh’s heroic act earned him praise around the world over the weekend. “Total strangers are asking to be friends on Facebook and thousands of people have said ‘Well done,’ ” he told the paper Saturday. “I was only doing what I had to and trying to be a decent member of the community.”
The boy was taken to the hospital with life-threatening head injuries, though he was in stable condition as of Friday evening.
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