Browsing Tag: Attack

Preliminary leads emerging from the investigation into Monday's terror strike in the Dinanagar township of Gurdaspur district in Punjab “do not indicate any direct involvement of home-grown Sikh militants”.

On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour in Seattle sentenced Jamie Larson to 40 months in prison for yelling racial slurs and beating taxi driver Kashmira Hothi.

Recently, my close friend Dr. Prabhjot Singh was assaulted in an apparent hate crime near his home in New York City. Although many headlines prominently feature the word “victim,” this is not how most Sikhs would view it.

When you give him the credit he cutely smiles and points his finger upwards saying it is Him who did it, not him.

When the militants stormed into the mall on Saturday and began firing indiscriminately, Nehal called up her father and told him that she, along with a friend, were hiding on the rooftop. That was her last call......

Even more important to me than my attackers being caught is that they are taught. My tradition teaches me to value justice and accountability, and it also teaches me love, compassion and understanding.

Amid the horrific scenes of the victims of the attack on the Westgate shopping complex in Nairobi, there have also been instances of heroism.

The term “mistaken identity” is problematic. When a reporter says that an incident was a case of “mistaken identity,” they are suggesting the idea that someone else should have been attacked instead of a Sikh.

In the wake of an attack on a Sikh man near Columbia University, Sikh community leaders are calling for more education about their religion.

Prabhjot and I are steadfast in our belief that our work in community health as well as continuing to share this story will help build awareness of Sikhs’ contributions as American citizens, and how we share American ideals.

Satpal Singh was inside the Westgate shopping mall in the Kenyan capital Nairobi when gunmen opened fire. He describes how he helped to lead some of the trapped people to safety,...

Press Conference video recorded on Sept. 23, 2013 _ Prabhjot Singh, Sikh Columbia Professor

The deadliest attack to hit Kenya since the 1998 U.S. embassy bombing started around 12:30 p.m. local time Saturday.

A Columbia University professor was assaulted on Saturday night in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime.

It’s gut-wrenching to watch the elderly gentleman struggle to defend himself, and then hit the street, his nose gushing blood.

A 26-year-old man was charged for attempting to murder Namdhari sect chief Thakur Uday Singh in the UK on Tuesday.

Namdhari sect head Thakur Uday Singh was injured in an attack by a Sikh man at a gurdwara in Britain's Leicester city, with police today describing the crime as an "isolated incident".

During his commute on Tuesday morning, in Manteca, California, Gulwinder Singh was involved in a minor accident with another car, and then brutally attacked by the other driver:

Worshippers at a Sikh temple in southwest Fresno, close to where an elderly Sikh man was attacked while walking on South Cherry Avenue a week ago, say they want to encourage a spirit of unity in the community.

The crime would be hard to believe in any context. Fresno's Sikh say discrimination there is almost a daily reality.

The event is being connected to the SPGC decision to allow construction of a memorial for those who died defending the faith in “Operation Blue Star” as well as recent incidents of honouring militants inside the Golden Temple complex.

A Birmingham sixth-former is recovering after escaping the polar bear attack that left a teenager dead during an expedition to the frozen north.

On Monday, local religious leaders pleaded for the community to come forward with leads but also said they will not be deterred by violence. "Our community will continue to wear our turbans proudly," said Navi Kaur, the granddaughter of Surinder Singh, 65, who died from his wounds.

The Sacramento Valley chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-SV) today called on the FBI to investigate a possible bias motive for an attack on a Sikh taxi driver who was attacked after apparently being mistaken for a Muslim.

An Austrian court has convicted six Indian men in connection with a gun attack in a temple in Vienna in which a visiting preacher was killed.

“We are fighting for two symbols all over the world — turban and kirpan,” said Gurdev Gill, who witnessed the attack on Mangat. “They have both been misused in front of everyone. Why would people listen to us?