Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11208968

Khalsa Primary school is the first Sikh school in the UK to be backed and partly funded by a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Seva Charities

http://www.hinduamericanseva.org/Press-release/september-7-2010

The National Day of Service and Remembrance is an opportunity to salute the heroes of 9/11, recapture the spirit of unity and compassion that inspired our nation following the attacks, and rededicate ourselves to sustained service to our communities.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11208968

Khalsa Primary school is the first Sikh school in the UK to be backed and partly funded by a Gurdwara, or Sikh temple.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Hindu American Seva Charities

http://www.hinduamericanseva.org/Press-release/september-7-2010

The National Day of Service and Remembrance is an opportunity to salute the heroes of 9/11, recapture the spirit of unity and compassion that inspired our nation following the attacks, and rededicate ourselves to sustained service to our communities.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sikh Coalition

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1607/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=79647

For the third time in less than a year, the U.S. Army announced that it will accept a Sikh recruit. The recruit, Simran Preet Singh Lamba, steadfastly refused to remove his dastaar (turban) or shave his hair as conditions of his service

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sikh Coalition

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/1607/t/0/blastContent.jsp?email_blast_KEY=79647

For the third time in less than a year, the U.S. Army announced that it will accept a Sikh recruit. The recruit, Simran Preet Singh Lamba, steadfastly refused to remove his dastaar (turban) or shave his hair as conditions of his service

Author: Staff Writer

Source: SALDEF

http://www.saldef.org/pr/saldef-commends-hate-crime-charge-in-seattle-attack/

The Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF) commends Seattle area prosecutors for charging Brock Stainbrook with a hate crime following his attack on a Sikh convenience store employee – Mr. S (identity kept confidential) – in Queen Anne on August 24, 2010. 

Author: Lydia Polgreen

Source: The New York Times

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sikh Coalition

http://www.sikhcoalition.org/advisories/AVAAZAugust2010.htm#12a6294619e7ef46_12a38c6800aab90d_Policy_Priorities

Earlier this week, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) found that a Boston area AutoZone store unlawfully discriminated against a Sikh employee because of his religion. Managers at AutoZone insulted and...

Author: Jay Tokasz

Source: The Buffalo News

http://www.buffalonews.com/life/article162230.ece

The beat of hand drums doesn’t quit.

Bold and clear, it summons worshippers to enter the gurdwara. It slows and softens at other times, pulling the gathered into deeper contemplation.

The rhythm accompanies the lush, exotic sound of a harmonium, and a singer chants verses in Punjabi from the Holy Granth, the revered book of Sikhism.

Author: Devlin Barrett

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703791804575439591274461362.html

Rabbi Menachem Stern's stringy brown beard is hardly an unusual sight in his Brooklyn neighborhood. But in trying to become a chaplain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Stern has gotten tangled in a military bureaucracy that has made exceptions for other beards, but not his.

The 28-year-old...

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Kent News

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Sikhs-win-support-over-airport-turban-searches-newsinkent38805.aspx

Sikh men upset at having their turbans manhandled by airport security staff have won the backing of Tory MP Gareth Johnson.

Author: Perry Stein

Source: The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703988304575413992348097342.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

A Texas appellate-court ruling that a newly built Sikh temple near Austin must be razed or moved has sparked an international outcry from members of the religious group, some of whom claim discrimination is at the heart of the case.

Author: Staff Writer

Source: BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-10961282

Two Malaysian men have been found guilty of setting fire to a church in January in a row over non-Muslim use of the word "Allah".

Author: Raveena Aulakh

Source: The Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/840030--turban-wearing-women-buck-trend

Sometimes she is in the subway when someone pops the question. Other times she is in a fast food lineup. Once she was watching a movie in a theatre when a man came up and whispered: “Why do you wear a turban?”

Mandeep Kaur Uppal quickly took him outside and explained that she...