Jinder is Muhammed Hassan 2.0

Uhh no. What similarities?

Jinder is a Canadian and is of South Asian and Indian descent/ethnicity. Jinder's character isn't derived from the Middle East or North Africa like Muhammad Hassan was. Muhammad Hassan might I add was an Italian-American person portraying an Arab-American who had felt disenfranchised by, hurt by, and vitriolic towards his fellow USA citizens during a post 9/11 world that became even more emboldened with irrational hate crimes and hate speech due to Islamophobia, ethnocentrism, xenophobia, racism, and bigotry. Jinder's character has nothing to do with any of that except for maybe racism (i.e., he mentions how people treat him differently because he looks different). Also Jinder's religion is Sikh. Muhammed Hassan's character was a Muslim. And neither characters spoke the same languages either.

The only similarity you're basically saying is that both men are brown, "foreign" looking, and heels while speaking in another language at times. Umm yeah, no. Not all brown people are the same as you know. Common knowledge of different geographic regions, cultures, and religion will tell you that, because by your logic you might as well have said Alberto Del Rio was Muhammad Hassan 2.0 too.

Can we just give Jinder a chance to be his own character, develop his own mic skills, create his own in-ring style, and not typecast, pigeon hold, and ignorantly compare him to another heel character that is completely irrelevant to his? I'd like to see another diverse character actually break through into the main event and get a fair shake.

Actually come to think about it, comparing Jinder Mahal to Alberto Del Rio has more legs and merit to it than comparing him to Muhammad Hassan. Just saying.

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