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Dear Romney, it's Sikhs, not Sheikhs
Updated On: 09 August, 2012 07:25 AM IST | | Agencies
Mitt Romney twice confused the word Sikh with Sheikh while paying tribute to the Wisconsin temple shooting victims in the latest gaffe for the Republican presidential candidate
Mitt Romney got a bit confused yesterday over the pronunciation of Sikh while mourning the recent tragedy in Wisconsin.u00a0Speaking at a fundraising event in Des Moines, Romney twice used the word Sheikh, denoting an Arab leader, rather than Sikh, the religion of the six people gunned down by a neo-Nazi on Sunday.

In Memoriam: Mitt Romney asked for a moment’s silence for the victims of the gurudwara shooting. Pic/AFP
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