Browsing Tag: Boston

A Professor of Visual Culture Explains Unconscious Stereotyping Evolved From Boston Bombings, Trayvon Martin Shooting

We prayed for those who suffered the loss of loved ones, were injured, and to all those affected by the horrific attacks.

At a conference I recently heard a father say: "Every day, my son asks, 'Daddy, why do we have to be Muslim?'"

Sikh Americans, who were targets of domestic terrorism in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, this past August have been particularly active in condemning the attack and organizing opportunities for community healing.

That anybody would think that Boston, of all places, would be intimidated by a couple of puny bombs is laughable. Sure, we grieve for the dead. We reach out to the injured, but we move forward.

The SIKH Community of Southern California is holding a Memorial Prayer Vigil, on Sunday, April 28, 2013,.... for peace and tranquility in the USA and the world.

We are having blood donation drive with the help of The Red Cross on Saturday and Sunday in the two Gurdwaras we have here. Each one of us will be bringing five people from our neighbourhoods from any or no faith to offer the same. We will serve fruits after the blood donations to all the donors and then Langar will be served later on.

Dressed in a white flowing robe and donning the traditional Sikh turban and long beard, Bhai Resham Singh, the leader of a Sikh gurdwara in the Boston area, stands before some 1,500 Christians, Jews, Muslims, Sikhs and even atheists. “(We) ask for mercy on the soul of Wade Michael Page, the perpetrator of the massacre,” he says.

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.

Sikhs and Hindus are featured prominently in the nationwide PBS public television documentary “The Asian & Abrahamic Religions: A Divine Encounter in America” which will be shown on over 300 public television stations nationwide in the USA.