Browsing Tag: Muslims

We continue to preach against statues, icons and pictures and yet most Sikh homes continue to display the image of one or more Gurus.

He told The Huffington Post, "When I first saw my Facebook friend's photo of this GAP subway advertisement defaced by vandals with racist messages, I wanted the world to see how millions of brown people are viewed in America today."

The Sikh Awareness Society (SAS), a charity which focuses on family welfare, claims it has investigated more than 200 reports of child sexual grooming in the UK over the past five years.

Let this Muslim introduce you to the man who founded the world's youngest religion, Sikhism and who had a profound role in shaping my Punjabi heritage, alas, one that was torn to shreds by the bloody partition of India in August 1947.

The Sikh community turned out in numbers to show its solidarity with the Leicester Muslim community in regards to the state sponsored persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Burma.

In a country often threatened by strife and conflict, the Times of India on Wednesday reported a heart-warming story about how in a place called Joshimath in Uttarakhand, Sikhs invited the Muslims to pray in the hall of their Gurudwara on Eid-ul-Fitr.

In a country where religious intolerance and communal hatred dominate the news nowadays, here is something that goes to show that all is not rotten and ugly.

Christians, Muslims, and Jews from across Greater ­Boston plan to be at a service at Trinity Church Thursday evening, August 23, to show support for the Sikh community in the aftermath of the shooting rampage at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.

During his first ever visit to a Sikh congregation, He stated, “If we are looking for a model, Guru Nanak gives us the best model in the 21st century. I feel a great sense of pride in figures like Guru Nanak from South Asia who brings us together and tell us to hold on to the concept of unity of God.”

How many countries in the world have a Sikh community that is so committed to bringing different people together that they would invite a Pakistani Muslim to speak on their most religious holiday? The founding fathers would have been pleased to see that their dream of a religiously pluralistic America is still of the utmost importance in their own country today.

The dark view expressed in the survey “contradicts a fundamental idea in multicultural democracies like ours, that conflicts between societies can be resolved through dialogue and negotiation,” said Jedwab. “This is also a key element in multiculturalism, where Canada is often seen elsewhere in the world as a model in conflict resolution.”

FBI agents participating in an outreach workshop had hoped to improve their relationship with Seattle's Muslim, Arab, East African and Sikh communities, but ended up offending some participants.

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.

Good God has not signed a deal with any one behind others' back. He is not a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Hindu, Sikh, Baha'i or otherwise. Ironically, each group builds its worth by denying the rights to sub-groups within their category. Religions have unabashedly transformed into private clubs.

The Dutch parliament voted on Tuesday to ban ritual slaughter of animals, a move strongly opposed by the country’s Muslim and Jewish minorities, but left a loophole that might let religious butchering continue. The bill by the small Animal Rights Party, the first such group in Europe to win seats in a national parliament, passed the lower house of parliament by 116 votes to 30.

Bilal was hopeful his faith would gain a new image. “Terrorism is not our religion. We condemn that 100 percent,” he said. Bilal explained that the Koran could be misinterpreted by people like bin Laden, but said it was the duty of Muslims not to follow religious leaders blindly, and to use their own moral judgment.

"Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides, but do not break the human heart, as it is there that God resides." -- Shaykh Bulleh Shah

Once there was a village which had four kinds of houses, green, blue, orange and white. It was a peaceful village where all the house owners loved each other and treated each other as brothers.

The U.N.'s top human-rights body approved a proposal by Muslims nations Thursday urging passage of laws around the world to protect religions from criticism.