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Snatam Kaur’s “I am a Sikh”
In the video above, spiritual vocalist Snatam Kaur provides an overview of the Sikh faith. The beautifully narrated video is filmed at the Gurdwara in Bridgewater, New Jersey and is dedicated to the...
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Overnight armed robbery of Livingston, CA, Gurdwara
Surveillance video capture showing men robbing the donation box at the Guru Nanak Sikh Temple in Livingston, California, early Sunday morning. (source: Merced Sun-Star) “I was in Fresno when I got the...
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White supremacy references not included in DHS keyword searches
On the January 30, 2013 broadcast of the Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert discusses the increase in recruitment activity by the Ku Klux Klan. View the video here. A recent article in Forbes Magazine...
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Six months since the Oak Creek, WI, Gurdwara shooting
Ik Onkar: One God for all. In memory of the victims of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Gurdwara shooting. Today marks six months since the mass shooting of Sikhs in their place of worship by a white...
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Would mental health services or gun control have prevented the Oak Creek...
“Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker takes questions about his proposal to increase mental health funding by $30 million that he announced on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013, in Madison. Walker will propose the...
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Oak Creek, WI, hero Lt. Brian Murphy speaks about attack and life since
A Sikh man holds a photo of Lt. Brian Murphy during a vigil in front of the White House on August 8, 2012 to commemorate the victims of the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting and other victims of hate....
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President Obama, the State of the Union, and the Americans of Oak Creek
President Barack Obama delivers his 2013 State of the Union address on February 12. (source: Muck Rack) Last night, it was likely for the first time in the history of State of the Union addresses that...
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Profiling the mentally ill in the gun violence debate
An editorial cartoon comparing accessibility of mental health and guns. Yesterday, in a speech delivered at a conference in Connecticut about gun violence, Vice President Joe Biden issued a challenge...
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Oak Creek, WI, victim families still waiting for answers from FBI
Kamaljit Saini, son of Oak Creek shooting victim Paramjit Kaur, is waiting for the FBI to release its full report into the August 2012 attack. (source: Fox 6 Now) In November of last year, the Federal...
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Arsonist in Green Bay, WI, charged with hate crime against Sikh man
“Man allegedly sets counter at store on fire: Green Bay Fire Department officials said a man allegedly walked into a store at 1020 N. Irwin Ave. Tuesday, March 6, 2013, and set something on fire on the...
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Addressing domestic terrorism needs renewed focus
“Surge in Hate Groups” (source: Dayton Daily News) An article in the Dayton Daily News discusses white supremacist gangs in Ohio’s state prisons, and how that plague is now being seen outside of the...
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What, or who, is “terrorism” in America?
(source: Denver Post) In The Guardian, Glenn Greenwald compares the application of the word “terrorism” in the case of last week’s Boston Marathon bombing against recent previous acts of mass violence...
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Examining the limits of “chardi kala”
A young girl holds a sign: “Chardi Kala – High Spirits”. (source: Just Sikh) On the blog Critical Mourning Project: Oak Creek & Beyond, Balbir Kaur Singh presents an examination the Sikh ethos of...
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Elderly Sikh man brutally assaulted in alleged hate attack – UPDATED
Piara Singh (source: CBS 47) Last night, news broke that an elderly Sikh man in Fresno, California, was attacked and beaten severely on Sunday in an alleged hate-motivated assault. Piara Singh, 82...
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Quote of the Day
“Geography of Hate” map showing concentrations of hate-based tweets on Twitter from June 2012 to April 2013. (source: Floating Sheep) “FBI experts believe the Internet continues to serve as the primary...
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Oak Creek, WI, police officers honored by President Obama
At an event at the White House on Saturday, President Barack Obama paid tribute to the country’s best police officers during 2013, including the eight who responded to the mass shooting at the Sikh...
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Oak Creek hero to retire from police department
Lieutenant Brian Murphy (source: WISN12) Oak Creek Police Department’s Lieutenant Brian Murphy, who was the first police officer to engage the attacker during the mass shooting last August at the Sikh...
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What the President said, and didn’t say, about the Oak Creek, WI, shooting
In his speech today about the US government’s counter-terrorism activities and strategy, President Barack Obama made reference to home-grown radicalized “individuals”, citing explicitly the mass...
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“I have never been in the presence of someone so holy in all of my life.”
Punjab Singh. (Photo source: Sikh Coalition) Holly Sennett, a speech-language pathologist, writes about her patient Punjab Singh, who was severely wounded during the mass shooting at a Gurdwara in Oak...
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Oak Creek, WI, Sikhs to commemorate anniversary of mass shooting in August
Chardhi Kala 6K logo. (Source: Chardhi Kala 6K) To commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin last August, the Sikh community in...
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