london a 10yearold sikh girl was branded a terrorist in a london playground when she tried to play with other children who refused to play with hermunsimar kaur who wears a turban was told twice by different sets of children at plumstead adventure play centre in plumstead southeast london this week they would not play with her because she looked dangerouson monday two boys who looked 14 to 17 and two girls who looked like they were in their late teens were playing a game when i asked to play it as the queue was a mile long they said loud and clear no you cant play because you are a terrorist munsimar said this obviously broke my heart but i kept my head up and went awayshe then went back the next day and made friends with a nineyearold girl after an hour her mum called her and said she cant play with me because i was dangerous she said sorry so i knew it wasnt her fault munsimar saidmunismar bravely decided to speak about the harassment in a video on twitter this exposes the lack of exposure some people have she said in the video sikhs are naturally caring no matter what we will love everyone but i need to speak out about this because not everyone is strong enough to walk away or has suitable parents to talk to to handle this racism anyone going through this tell your parents and keep your chin up and it will work out in the end i promiseher father gurpreet singh a mental health professional tweeted the video saying my eldest daughter munsimar kaur aged 10 tells her own true story today it was my child tomorrow it could be yoursmunsimars mother navrup kaur tweeted my 10 yr old was called a terrorist by kids on monday a parent called her dangerous on tuesday the gll adventure play staff are oblivious racist ignorantgreenwich leisure ltd gll a charitable social enterprise runs the plumstead adventure play centre which has facilities including rope swings walkways zip wires pool and table tennis its spokesperson said it had a zerotolerance policy on racism and bullying and was very shocked to hear of this little girls experiencewe and our approachable and caring playworkers all receive diversity training appropriate to our multicultural playground which provides a warm welcome to dozens of nationalities and faiths the incident was not witnessed by our staff or reported at the time so we would very much like to speak to the family about what they experienced and take any necessary action the spokesperson saidracism against sikhs because of the hypervisible appearance of practising sikhs is incredibly common in the uk and across the western world said jasveer singh sikh press association senior press officer sikhs have become so used to it most barely react to the comments such as bin laden and more however the uk often overlooks the amount of racism against sikhs there