Browsing Tag: Wisconsin Gurdwara Shootings

One moment. One touch. One person. It can bring light to the world. It can bring the deepest darkness. On August 5, 2012, a year ago, the Oak Creek Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, experienced the worst and the best of humanity.

Help turn tragedy in to triumph! Register for a 6-kilometer run/walk to be held in memory of the six Oak Creek Sikh temple members killed in the Aug. 5, 2012 shooting.

“You've got to balance respect for the victims with the spirit of going on in high spirits,” Kaleka told The Associated Press. “I don't want this to just be a bad memory for the children.”

With speeches, proclamations, hugs, laughs and a few tears, the Oak Creek Police Department on Friday celebrated the retirement of Lt. Brian Murphy.

To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Oak Creek,... the Sikh community in Milwaukee is holding a six kilometer run/walk in memory of the six victims of the massacre:

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?

Punjab Singh's condition was upgraded from critical to serious and he has been transferred out of the intensive-care unit, according to the hospital.

Still, have we done enough? Muslims have a big responsibility to be the leading religious community to build strong relationships with Sikhs. It is a moral responsibility to join together as a unified community standing up against the root causes of this trend of violence...

"I told them, 'I'm sad that it took a tragedy of this magnitude for you to spotlight us in the community. But now that you're here, I want to make sure the information you're conveying to the public is accurate and meaningful. Maybe greater awareness can prevent another tragedy.'"

We can seize upon this moment of tragedy or let it squander into another historical statistics. Our problem is NOT that we wear turbans or have unshorn hair, but that NOT ENOUGH of us follow the Guru's edict.

After the Wisconsin Gurdwara tragedy,... now a fellow community member has received death threat with a warning that more lives were at risk.

The Interfaith Youth Core, in partnership with Groundswell, will be hosting a special conference call for Sikh American college students on Sept. 6th.

Even as the govt. express their commitment to protecting Sikh Americans in response to the massacre, there is one glaring problem with how govt. monitors hate crimes against Sikhs in America: It doesn’t.

The Sikh community released a new video overnight, in which members expressed their pride in the face of the shooting massacre at their temple in Oak Creek.

Sikh priest Punjab Singh hasn't regained consciousness since the shooting rampage at a Wisconsin temple earlier this month, and is hooked up to a machine to help him breathe, his family says.

Sikh Entrepreneur Taj Chahal acknowledges Wisconsin shooting with Central Park skywriting; spreads awareness about Sikh community.

Hundreds of people – including local representatives from many religious faiths – drew Greater Cincinnati’s Sikh community into a warm embrace Sunday, 21 days after a gunman killed six at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wis.

Visuals matter. And in a racially charged political climate, a turbaned and bearded man will be presented to the country by Republicans as a fellow American. This is a remarkable step forward.

I am choosing to run an air sign because it is necessary to inform, enlighten, educate, and mourn recent events. The Sikh community is one that stands for peace and purity.

Edwards added, "He still has a long road ahead of him. He has a ways to go. It's going to take a long time to heal, and he's probably going to have permanent injuries. But from where he started, I truly believe he's here for a reason."

Sikh and Interfaith community members came together to honour the victims of the massacre of Sikh followers in their place of worship, the Gurdwara of Oak Creek, Wisconsin in United States.

Hundreds of people gathered at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee to speak of unity, strength and rebirth during the first Sunday service

Identifying the problem as “mistaken identity” is just plain wrong. “Mistaken identity” implies that there is a “correct” target

Though Sikh women connect to the male identity on a very personal level through their husbands, fathers and sons, they are not exclusively defined by the image of the turban and the beard.

... a one page summary to help parents and teachers address the needs of Sikh children dealing with the shock and confusion of the Oak Creek tragedy.

Thousands of mourners paid their final respects Friday... "We mourn with you, we pray with you, and we support you," Wis. governor Scott Walker said during the ceremony.

In the strongest denunciation to date by a U.S. law enforcement official, Attorney General Eric Holder on Friday labeled the attack on a Sikh temple that killed six Sikhs "an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime."

Sikhs are returning to a U.S. temple for the first time since the shootings that killed six worshippers and left three people critically wounded.

I am a Sikh woman. I'm also a white American. I became a Sikh after studying many religions, looking for the right fit.

We're Sikhs. We're supposed to look different so that we cannot blend into crowds and evade responsibility. We're Sikhs, so we're supposed to inspire by courage and never teach fear...