Browsing Tag: 9/11

Community holds us together

That anybody would think that Boston, of all places, would be intimidated by a couple of puny bombs is laughable. Sure, we grieve for the dead. We reach out to the injured, but we move forward.
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Oak Creek: Personal reflections 6 months later

Caring so deeply about the Sikh community and backlash we and other... individuals and families experienced after 9/11 propelled me towards a career path where I could advocate and speak on behalf of not only the Sikh community but other minorities in this nation that have been the targets of bias and discrimination.
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Award-winning filmmaker explains storytelling as advocacy

Storytelling plus advocacy equals social change. According to Valarie Kaur, this is an equation that will reshape the world.
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Candlelight Vigil for Balbir Singh Sodhi on September 15th

Assembling every year and holding a candlelight vigil at the spot where Balbir Singh fell, the Sikh people have been trying to speak against hatred while keeping awareness about their identity alive.
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Sept. 11 gathering remembers lives lost

"Remember and meditate." Three simple words. They were spoken Tuesday morning at the War Memorial Center by Gurmail Singh, the head priest of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin.
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How 9/11 Changed Religion In America

Sikhi understands suffering as a mental construct. One who is spiritually connected with the Divine does not suffer,...
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Humanizing Victims of Hate

It is important that we take time to humanize these individuals. In overlooking their humanity, we lose a part of our own. We can maintain our own humanity by registering and remembering the effects that hate-crimes have on more personal levels.
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Islamophobia, Sikhophobia and Media Profiling

Scholars have recently described this perceived relationship as a racialization of religious identity. This process has led to a conflation of Sikhs and Muslims, and therefore, has produced a corollary to Islamophobia -- Sikhophobia.
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Buffer from 9/11 backlash: Sikhs not strangers in Yuba-Sutter

Yuba-Sutter Sikhs enjoy an acceptance and understanding unknown by brethren still struggling with backlash from the 9/11 attacks.
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'I Am Singh' is not 'My Name is Khan'

"Sikhs were mistaken to be Arabs in the post 9/11 scenario and beaten up. Doesn't this sound bizarre? I mean Sikhs and Arabs are as different as chalk and cheese. And that is what I have attempted to show in this film. It talks about the turban issue."
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