security is now part of that mix, too
Temple trains, arms team after terror attacks
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| Copyright 2016 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. The Guru Nanak Society of Greater Cincinnati made a decision to have an armed security force, surveillance monitors and other measures after several high-profile attacks on fellow Sikhs in the United States. Picture by: Sonia Chopra |
Mar 23, 2016: WEST CHESTER TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- Seven years ago, the Guru Nanak Society of Greater Cincinnati on Tylersville Road had all its four doors unlocked during its normal business hours.
The Sikh temple or gurdwara, as it is called, was following the primary rule of the religion Sikhism, which dictated that God is everywhere and everyone is equal in His eyes, and visitors may enter the gurdwara from any direction, east, west, north or south.
But then the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, massacre happened. On Aug. 5, 2012, Wade Michael Page, 40, fatally shot six people and wounded four at a Sikh gurdwara. He later committed suicide.
WCPO Insiders can take a deeper look at the gurdwara and its security measures.