At an event here Aug. 27 to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harrowing stories were related of bullying in schools, workplace harassment, hate crimes based on religious affiliations and persecution by law enforcement agencies due to wearing faith-based hair coverings.
How little we know about the origins of the Sept. 11 attacks is laid out in the disclaimer on Page 146 of the official 9/11 presidential commission report. A box on that page states clearly that the conventional narrative of how those portentous events unfolded is based largely on the interrogation under torture of key witnesses who...
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Jatinder feels the hobby keeps him connected to his culture as Punjabis have been known for keeping animals in the past. "The practice had been abandoned in the modern age but I am determined to preserve it," he said.
Both tell their tales in first-person videos posted on a new Sikh Coalition website, which is collecting post-9/11 stories from Muslim, Sikh, South Asian, and Arab Americans. In posted accounts from around the U.S., they describe suffering from bullying, discrimination and hate crimes.
“If governments, international organizations or aid groups are able to use those forecasts, the forecasts of El Nino effectively, they might be able to either prepare populations on the ground or themselves prepare their own resources to be in a better situation when conflict breaks out.”
Members from the Sikh community in New Mexico welcomed and hosted the Consul General during her visit. The main hosts for the Consul General’s visit here were Pawan Singh Dhindsa and Bhai Sahib Satpal Singh Kohli.
In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.
WikiLeaks has revealed that US immigration officials had documented visa fraud, with applicants from Punjab and Gujarat topping the list. ...that such persons had applied under the garb of religious preachers from India. And the US immigration officials were keeping an eagle eye on them and conducting ground investigations in India.
When Daljeet Singh Sidhu wanted to introduce his three-year-old son to Sikh heroes and history, he was not at a loss of words. But what he did not have, was a story that his boy could see, feel and later read. That’s when it struck Sidhu; that Sikh history has many heroes, but no graphics.