Source: The Sikh Coalition

http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/HatredintheHallways.htm

(New York, New York) June 6, 2007 - Four New York City Council Members joined the Sikh Coalition today to release a first ever research report on bias against Sikh children in New York City Schools. The report, "Hatred in the Hallways: A Preliminary Report on Bias Against Sikh Students in New York City's Public Schools," presents data from over 200 surveys conducted by the...

Author: Joshua Rhett Miller

Source: The New York Metro

http://ny.metro.us/metro/local/article/Report_Sikh_students_face_abuse_from_classmates/8862.html

TWEED COURTHOUSE. More than three-quarters of male Sikh students in Queens said they are teased or harassed in city schools due to their identity, according to a report released yesterday.

The report revealed that 62 of 80 Sikh boys polled over...

Author: Megan Reynolds

Source: Your Local Guardian

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1442851

A VICTORY for the religious faithful has been won by a Sikh man who was refused entry to passport offices while wearing the holy Kirpan.

Tarsem Singh, 27, always wears the Kirpan, a symbollic three inch dagger, as it is one of the five K's which he is required to wear as an initiated Sikh, and he was offended by the way...

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/93B5A8D214EAB93F872572ED00612CFB

Iraq is keen to rebuild a historic Sikh shrine commemorating Guru Nanak's visit to Baghdad, which had been destroyed by 'fanatics' after the invasion of the country by US-led coalition forces, a top leader said on Friday.

Iraqi National Congress chief Ahmed Chalabi, one of Iraq's prominent leaders, who drove down through the...

Author: Ross Farrow

Source: Lodi News Sentinel

http://www.saldef.org/anm/anmviewer.asp?a=1701&print=yes

The new Sikh Temple in south Lodi has a 60-foot-high canary-yellow banner with the faith's emblem, but some Lodi residents wonder why there isn't an American flag to go with it.

"It's almost a slap in the face as an American and as veterans," said Lodi resident Robin Sarisky. "You're an American first; then everything else falls...

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund Press Release

http://www.saldef.org/content.aspx?a=1700&z=5&title=SALDEF,%20FBI%20and%20Sikh%20Foundation%20of%20Virginia%20Co-sponsor%20Recruiting%20Event%20in%20Virginia

Washington D.C. – May 25, 2007 – This past Sunday, May 20, 2007, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the...

Source: Sikh Coalition Press Release

http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/SikhBoyHairHateAttack.htm

(New York, New York) May 25, 2007 - A Sikh high school student's hair was forcibly cut in a hate attack yeterday afternoon at a high school in Elmhurst, Queens the Sikh Coalition learned from police investigators today. The Queens County District Attorney's office has charged one student with hate crimes as a result.

Yesterday's incident...

Author: Michael Horsnell

Source: The Times

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article1837693.ece

An elderly Sikh taxi driver was knocked down and killed by his own cab after a passenger hijacked the vehicle. Detectives believe that the attack may have been racially motivated.

Police appealed for calm yesterday after the incident in which Gian Chand Bajar, 71, chairman of the Guru Nanak temple in Gravesend, Kent,...

Author: James Burger

Source: The Bakersfield Californian

http://www.bakersfield.com/102/story/147942.html

Parade ordinances and religious freedoms tangled Tuesday in the Kern County Board of Supervisors chambers.

Members of Bakersfield's Sikh community asked supervisors to find common ground with city fathers on where parades can be held in the metro area.

City ordinances allow parades to be held in only five specific locations,...

Source: Sikh News Network

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/news.nsf/NewsArchive/F6FA8591E865277B872572E2005ED019

It is an orange Thursday, in this day of fall. It is peak hour and most of the people in Santiago are concerned about going home, getting some food and spending some time with their loved ones. But not all, there is always a group of people that for different reasons are left out, without jobs, family, house and the most important of...

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund Press Release

http://www.saldef.org/content.aspx?&a=1697&z=1&title=SALDEF%20Working%20with%20TSA%20to%20Address%20Improper%20Screening%20of%20Sikh%20Americans%20at%20Nation’s%20Airports

Washington D.C. – May 21, 2007 – Over the past several months, SALDEF has lodged several complaints with...

Author: Lisa Kocian

Source: The Boston Globe

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/05/20/banking_on_yoga/

Just before 5 a.m. on a recent Saturday, a few threads of dawn light were starting to show through the French doors that line one wall of the Baba Siri Chand Yoga Center in Millis. In the dimly lighted room, a half-dozen men and women wearing white turbans sat on the floor, reading prayers aloud in Gurmukhi, an ancient...

Author: Raju William

Source: The Tribune

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070516/main6.htm

Dehra Dun, May 15--Feeling helpless in stemming the growing trend among the Sikh youth to marry into non-Sikh families, the Sikh clergy and community leaders here have put a virtual ban on inter-faith marriages.

Deliberating on the issue in a meeting of representatives of around 35 local gurdwara committees and other Sikh organisations at Gurmat...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: SALDEF

http://www.saldef.org/content.aspx?a=1696&z=5&title=Sikh%20American%20Student%20in%20Alabama%20allowed%20to%20Return%20to%20School%20with%20both%20Turban%20and%20Hair%20Intact

Washington D.C. – May 15, 2007: Last week, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the...

Author: Matt Lynch

Source: The Milford Daily News

http://www.milforddailynews.com/homepage/x1505853545

Millis - For Inderpreet Singh, it's the perfect combination - food and fellowship.

Singh and hundreds of other Sikhs from around Massachusetts and New England participated in a ritual parade, known as a Nagar Kirtan, from Milford to Millis yesterday afternoon.

The parade began at The Gurdwara Sahib of New England on East Main...