Because it's apparently the job of the contemporary media to take a few isolated episodes and use them to paint entire swathes of the general public as idiots, intolerant or both. It's not like Sikhs living in western countries other than the US haven't also had problems with the locals.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.