“Let me tell you about Ahab the Arab the Sheik of the burning sand,” and to further confuse things Ray Stevens goes on about his girlfriend “…there he saw Fatima laying on a Zebra skin rug Wearing rings on her fingers and bells on her toes and a bone in her nose ho, ho,” which seems a far stretch to how we see Muslim women in burkas.
Confusing things further the Arabic Sheik also translates as Sheikh, Shaik, Shayk, Shaykh, Shaikh, Cheikh, and Shekh. And of course the turbans. One way to tell the difference is Sheiks have guns and Sihks have knives. `
In 2012 gun enthusiast Wade Michael Page shot and killed six and wounded four in a Sihk temple parking lot in Milwaukee. At first it was thought he had confused Sihks with Muslims as the rest of us do, but from his white supremacist background it’s clear it didn’t make any difference who was under the turban. Turban is as turban does.
Here in America we know mostly nothing about Sihks who are from the Punjab region of India. Even though they are a far larger religion than Judaism, Mormonism, Jehovah’s Witnesses, 7th Day Adventists and Scientoligists.