Sikhism

Sikh Children Convey Sikh Ideals to American Audience

January 27, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: India Post News Service

http://indiapost.com/article/communitypost/5318/

Audience of about 400 from all walks of life and faiths applauded the perfectly choreographed performance of Sikh children who staged two musical plays recently at Wootton high School in Rockville, Md. This medium of art was employed by 30 children from ages 5 to 15 by enacting two popular American plays and they were staged in celebration of the 300th...

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Sikh Argues Against Hard Hat

January 27, 2009

Author: Amy Chung

Source: The Toronto Sun

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2009/01/27/8159211-sun.html

A Sikh security guard who was asked to trade in his turban for a hard hat by a Home Depot manager presented his case of alleged discrimination before a human rights tribunal yesterday.

Deepinder Loomba, 50, testified he was commissioned to patrol a Home Depot site under construction in Milton and on Dec. 6, 2005, the assistant manager supervising the site asked him to replace his turban with a hard hat....

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Sikh Representative Joins President Obama In Prayer At National Service

January 23, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: SikhNet

http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikh-representative-joins-president-obama-prayer-national-service

Dr. Rajwant Singh, Chairman of the Sikh Council on Religion and Education attended the national prayer service inaugurating President Barack Obama. Obama, embracing a tradition that dates to George Washington, the first U.S. president, took part in a multiracial, multireligious...

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NY Sikh Victim Of Brutal Racial Attack May Lose Vision

January 23, 2009

Author: Jaspreet Singh

Source: The Panthic Weekly

http://www.panthic.org/news/123/ARTICLE/4689/2009-01-23.html

Jasmir Singh, a 21-year-old Sikh college student was savagely attacked and stabbed in his left eye during an unprovoked attack on Sunday outside a grocery store in Queens, New York by three young men wielding a glass bottle. Jasmir sustained injuries to his left-eye, head, face, and back, and has not regained his vision after...

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US Company to Pay USD 24000 to Sikh Man for Discrimination

January 23, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Press Trust of India

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5Cptisite.nsf/0/6BA3662058E450FA6525754700541D8C?OpenDocument

An American security company has agreed to pay USD 24,000 as compensation to a Sikh man who had complained that he was discriminated against for wearing a turban.

Sukhdev Singh Brar, working in a Texas based security company had filed a complaint with the Equal...

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Oxford Sikhs Might Lose Place Of Worship

January 23, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Panthic Weekly

http://www.panthic.org/news/124/ARTICLE/4702/2009-01-23.html

The local Sikh community of Oxford has been left distressed over a recent ruling by the city council which bars them from congregating at a private residence in Marston. The private residence turned Gurdwara, or a place of worship, is being used by over forty Sikh families for the past three years for congregational purposes.
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Local Sikhs Celebrate

January 20, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: MSNBC/KGET-TV

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28733484/

Sikhs from all over [C]alifornia came to [B]akersfield to be part of the festival and celebrate with the local Sikh community. Bakersfield's Sikh community hosted the birthday celebration for Gobind Singh, their religion's tenth guru. Some say he was a pioneer in fighting terrorism. One man spoke about the misconceptions and stereotypes aimed at them, while Mayor Harvey [H]all said the...

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Bringing a Sikh Concerns to the Obama Administration

January 19, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: Global Sikh News

http://sikhsangat.org/1469/2009/01/bringing-a-sikh-concerns-to-the-obama-administration/

Today America celebrates a great leader, one who made this country a better place for all to live. Martin Luther King led Americans through the civil rights movement. Without the advances he and others made in the 1960s, without their struggle for equal rights, America’s Sikhs...

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Sikhs In Canada Take a Glimpse Of Ganga Sagar

January 18, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: SikhNet

http://www.sikhnet.com/news/sikhs-canada-take-glimpse-ganga-sagar

During the past weekend, Gurdwara Sikh Spiritual Center held a special ceremony for the Sikh congregation of GTA to have a glimpse of “Ganga Sagar “, a great memorial of our reverend Tenth Master of Sikhs, Kalgidhar Pathshah Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee Maharaj. Rai Azizullah Khan shared the History of Ganga Sagar at this...

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Faithful to Celebrate Obama With Dance, Song

January 15, 2009

Author: Julia Duin

Source: The Washington Times

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jan/15/faithful-to-celebrate-obama-with-traditional-dance/

A variety of religions will be whooping it up this weekend at something unique in terms of inaugural festivities: religiously oriented balls.

The African American Church Inaugural Ball will have several bishops in attendance. A Masonic ball is scheduled...

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Keeping Religion And Culture Alive

January 13, 2009

Author: Tan Ju-Eng

Source: The Star

http://thestar.com.my/metro/story.asp?file=/2009/1/13/central/3000151&sec=central

The Sikhs in Malaysia are a very small and homogenous community. Other communities associate them with their turbans, their sharp features, colourful costumes and delicious chapattis. The Star’s Online TV channel Switch Up spent time with them to find out how they have managed to preserve their...

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Sikh Wounded In New Year’s Eve Hate Crime Assault

January 7, 2009

Author: Anna Gustafson

Source: Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund

http://www.saldef.org/content.aspx?&a=3678&z=4&title=

For Bellerose resident Balbir Singh, New Year’s Eve was not a time of celebration.

After a violent attack outside his home on 248th Street in Bellerose that left blood gushing from his right eye, Balbir Singh, 40, spent nearly nine hours on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1 at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center....

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Sikh Shrine To Be Rebuilt

January 7, 2009

Author: Staff Writer

Source: The Sikh Times

http://www.emgonline.co.uk/news.php?news=2842

In a significant development, the Government of Iraq has decided to rebuild the 15th century Sikh Guru Guru Nanak Dev's shrine which was destroyed in the 2003 war in Baghdad.

Talking to media here at his palace, Iraqi Vice President and senior politician Adil Abd-al-Mahdi has said that the government would rebuild the destroyed Guru Nanak Dev's shrine in...

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