Browsing Tag: Turban

“I think multicultural awareness is important because you can accept people easier if you know where they’re coming from and that just makes for a more successful community, a successful work life and a more successful educational life,” Kanwar said.

In January, the Sikh Foundation of Virginia held a “Turban Showdown” for the pre-school children and older youth of its gurdwara in Northern Virginia.

23 year old Sikh, Jasdeep Atwal, has been cycling on Brisbane streets for over a decade but has only recently been singled out by council for riding helmetless, due to his religious beliefs.

In the wake of French President Francois Hollande’s visit to India, supporters of the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal), along with Sikh students, staged a protest here on Friday over the ban on wearing turbans in that country.

The Transportation Security Administration has done a wonderful job these past several years of ensuring our safety. Yet as civil rights organizations like SALDEF and the Sikh Coalition have shown us, it is now time for us to demand more.

Sikh groups led by United Sikhs organization, Akali Dal (Delhi) and Sikh Forum held a peaceful protest outside the French Embassy in Delhi and submitted a memorandum addressed to French President Francois Hollande against the ongoing turban ban in French public schools.

The Union ministry of external affairs (MEA) is likely to take up the issue of turbans with French President Francois Hollande when he visits India on Thursday.

With more turban colors than a box of crayons, Gurpreet Singh Sarin is the brightest-looking semifinalist on ‘American Idol’ this year. He tells us about the controversy over his appearance and how he started singing in a Potbelly Sandwich Shop.

Whereas in other countries, including Canada, there have been many hurdles for those aspiring to serve in this profession with their turbans but in Australia this has been achieved relatively with ease.

The ban is a double-bind faced by Sikhs in this country: While others continue to look at Sikhs as foreign and alien, Sikh Americans are unable to counter this stereotype by giving their lives to this country.

A human rights case that was to go before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario (HRTO), involving the right of a Sikh limousine driver to maintain a beard, has settled.

Satwinder Bains doesn’t want the Sikh history to disappear.

For years, Sikh community advocates have been trying to get the NYPD to reform its dress code to allow officers to wear turbans and full beards, which they say would give an equal opportunity for more Sikhs to become members of the city’s police force.

The UN Human Rights Committee has ruled that France's ban on the wearing of "conspicuous" religious symbols in schools - introduced in a law adopted in March 2004 - violated a Sikh student's right to manifest his religion, protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).

Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palace yesterday also offered a glimpse into the changing face of Britain.

Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar's relatives said they could not understand why the Army's decision to allow the 25-year-old to wear the headdress instead of a bearskin outside Buckingham Palace had caused such disquiet.

Guardsman Jatinderpal Singh Bhullar, 25, who joined the Scots guards this year, has been given permission to wear a turban outside Buckingham Palace, breaking hundreds of years of tradition.

As a Sikh, I am mandated by my faith to wear a turban and keep a beard. As an American, born and raised in a nation where freedom of religion is a given, I generally do not think too hard about how these symbols make me look "different." But sometimes the difference has to be addressed.

The book aims to tackle such ignorance by providing – for the first time – a narrative history of the turban, which has been an integral element of Sikh identity since the founding of the faith by the first Guru Nanak Dev ji in 1469.

As many Sikhs shed the most important article of their faith, the size and length of the Sikh turban still worn by those who continue to maintain their long hair shrinks in size.

Anything is possible in America. We can sketch it, plot it, animate it and market it. Our commercial fantasies include Snooki, hobbits, Kardashians and wizards. It’s time we spice up our comical fantasies with colors of our imaginary fears and create a new American mythology.

In fact, his films have been winning in the category for the last three years says Satdeep. "I make movies that transcend religion and that appeal to everyone. The messages in the films are universal and everyone can relate to it."

Students were wrapped into Sikh culture Wednesday as a religious organization worked to change peers’ views of turbans.

REMEMBER, YOU ARE THE SON.... OF THE ONE THAT GAVE UP HIS 'SARBANS' FOR THE KHALSA THE 'NYARA' KHALSA WITH THE BLOOD OF HIS OWN, HIS SIKHS, AND HIS OWN KIN.....

Since the tragedy at the gurudwara, or Sikh temple, in Oak Creek, local friends have been asking me questions about Sikhism and want me to summarize its teachings.

Marking a historic win for civil rights last Saturday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed AB1964 into law. Proposed, drafted, and sponsored by the Sikh Coalition, the new law provides workers in California the nation's strongest protections against religious discrimination.

People called me "towelhead" and "Osama," but years of hate led to something I didn't expect: A career in cartoons

Californian Muslims and Sikhs have won right to wear turbans, bears and hijabs in their work places freely without any restrictions according to a new bill signed by the state governor.

But Virdi, ... told students at John Deere Middle School in Moline during a MWAH! Performing Arts Troupe presentation that he knows what fuels such bullying: ignorance and hate. That also is what he blames for the mass shooting recently at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee.

Who are the Sikhs? What are their beliefs? What is the significance of the Sikh turban? In the language of clothing, what is the turban saying? Some answers come from Britain, where Sikhs are more established than in the United States.