Browsing Tag: Oak Creek

Interfaith Memorial Service at the Sikh Gurdwara (Temple-Acton Road in Indianapolis with beautiful messages of kindred assurance, unity, peace, and harmony from so many faith and civic leaders, and law-enforcement officers was an illuminating, moving and memorable experience.

t is heartening to see local governments be involved in addressing hate within their community by fostering more awareness and appreciation among its residents.

Hundreds of Sikhs in the Washington area gathered at Guru Gobind Singh Foundation to commemorate the one year anniversary of the Oak Creek shooting at the Gurdwara which took six lives. Many elected officials, religious leaders and civic representatives joined in the prayerful ceremony.

Six symbolize the six people killed last year and the seventh is for the community's loss as a whole.

In those moments, I did a lot of soul searching. I think we all did. As a parent, I had to think beyond myself.

A year after tragedy, Ruby and Rumita have found renewed hope in humanity after witnessing first-hand the strength that can rise from the ashes of destruction.

Harleen Kaur grew up in that community, and she tells Simran Jeet Singh about how life has changed over the past 12 months.

On the one year anniversary of Oak Creek, in the midst of news of increasing violence in our country, may we share in the spirit of everlasting optimism – and hear the call to serve.

The sangat at the gurdwara was in the true spirit of chardi kala. I found the atmosphere to be spiritually uplifting.

But as we reflect on the meaning of this tragedy one year later, we can choose to focus on what we do know for certain: the beauty of the six victims’ final act on Earth.

Two days after the event, I noted that the major news networks (not including CNN) had dedicated scant coverage to the shooting compared to Aurora, leaving it "destined to disappear into the realm of the nothing-to-be-done, nothing-to-be-discussed."

“All things being relative, I’m in a good spot,” Murphy explained. “Obviously, I realize how fortunate I am to even be alive. I don’t know why, and I don’t think I’ll ever know why....

What happened at Oak Creek matters to us first, as faith leaders, because we recognize a deep responsibility to act as stewards of community.

Now, the victims of Oak Creek must never be reduced to mere crime statistics. But, in order to honor their untimely losses by ensuring that justice can be done – they do need to be counted.

To honor them is to tell our children powerful, interconnected and hopeful narratives about their precious skin colors, faiths and cultures. To remember them is to envision and bring about a different racial landscape in our country.

Hundreds gathered in Oak Creek Saturday for a run-walk in memory of the Sikh temple shooting.

For 90 minutes Monday, the crowd of 750 students sat riveted. They watched the two men offer a vision of what comes after an act of hatred.

But after a gunman killed six worshippers at a Milwaukee-area Sikh temple last year, survivors and their families vowed not to let money divide them.

Whites might actually have to start distancing themselves from white supremacy.

Oak Creek memorial 2013

As Sikhs we do not proselytize. But should we educate? In light of the Oak Creek anniversary we are reminded of the huge gap of awareness about Sikhi.

Since his 6-year-old daughter was killed in the Connecticut school shooting, Robbie Parker has been encouraging people to try to find peace in tragedy.

After consideration and contemplation, temple members kept the policy, deciding it was important to show the world the best way to stand against violence was to respond with love, peace and compassion.

Today in Oak Creek: online registration continues for Saturday's 6K run/walk in honor of the victims of last summer's Sikh temple shooting.

When Sikhs began to restore their gurdwara in Oak Creek, “I saw the spirit of chardi kala, everlasting hope and optimism, in the community,” recalls activist Valarie Kaur.

Members of the Milwaukee-area Sikh (seek') temple where a gunman killed six people last year are now taking registrations for a memorial run marking the first anniversary of the tragedy.

How can we affirm our belief that at a core level we are all one and we are connected with a higher power and with each other?

A judge has dismissed a Sikh group's U.S. lawsuit against a Indian official who was in Wisconsin last year in the wake of the mass shooting at the Sikh temple at Oak Creek.

Wade Michael Page spent is believed to have been radicalized by online forums and sites dedicated to white supremacy in months prior to shooting

The eight Oak Creek police officers who responded to the shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August have received a national law enforcement award and were honored at the White House Saturday morning by President Barack Obama.