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Jasjit Singh Jaggi serves as a member of the NYPD with his articles of faith intact, but only as a traffic officer, after winning his religious accommodation case in 2004. (source: New York City Commission on Human Rights)

It may take a lawsuit for the NYPD to allow Sikhs to serve freely

December 19, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

“There is no reason why the NYPD police officers can’t wear a turban and beard and do their job,”  said [New York Assemblyman Dave Weprin] mentioning in particular that Sikhs’ beards [prevent] the use of gas masks is not true. “Sikhs can tie up their beards in a crop cut,” he said. …“They are not being as receptive to people that don’t look like them,” he said. — In the Gotham Gazette, New York Assemblyman Dave Weprin discusses the campaign […]

Categories: Civil Rights • Tags: Employment Discrimination, Gotham Gazette, Jasjit Singh Jaggi, Metropolitan Police Department, Metropolitan Transit Authority, MTA, New York Police Department, NYPD, religious accommodation, SALDEF, Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, Sikh Coalition, Workplace Discrimination

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Congregation at Sikh Religious Society of Chicago commemorates the passing of HR 1193 in Illinois (credit: SAAPRI)

IL South Asian community commemorates state anti-hate resolution

December 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On Sunday, the South Asian community in Chicago, Illinois, came together with local and state officials at the Sikh Religious Society of Chicago to commemorate the passing of HR 1193 by the Illinois House of Representatives, an anti-hate resolution that was a collaboration between the South Asian American Public Research Institute (SAAPRI), local groups and State Representative Daniel Biss, condemning recent hate crimes against Sikhs, Muslims and other South Asians (and specifically, the mass shooting by a white supremacist in […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: Chicago, Daniel Biss, HR 1193, Illinois, Illinois House of Representatives, Oak Creek, SAAPRI, Sikh Religious Society of Chicago, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, South Asian American Public Research Institute, Wisconsin

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"Ken Henggeler started this memorial to the victims of the shooting at the intersection of Main Street and Sugar Street in Newtown, Connecticut." (source: CNN)

A fifth grader’s letter to the victims of Newtown, CT

December 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On their Facebook page, the website Kaurista posts a touching letter from fifth grader Gurjaap Singh to the young victims of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. The full text is below.

Categories: Reflections • Tags: Connecticut, Elementary school, Gurjaap Singh, Kaurista, Newtown, shooting

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"A group of Sikh men were among those came to Newtown to attend an interfaith service at Newtown High School on December 16, 2012 which was also attended by President Barack Obama. The service was held two days after gunman Ryan Lanza walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. and opened fire killing 20 children and several adults on December 14, 2012." (source: CNN)

Picture of the Day: Sikhs at Newtown, CT vigil

December 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

  Still dealing with the aftermath of August’s mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Sikhs around the country (including Sikh communities in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Fairfield, California, New York, Fresno, California, Sacramento, California, Bridgewater, New Jersey) have been gathering for vigils and prayer after the mass murder in Newtown, Connecticut.

Categories: Picture of the Day • Tags: Connecticut, Newtown, shooting, vigil

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Sikligar Sikhs (photo: Jagmohan Singh)

Mandeep Sethi film SIKLIGAR now available online

December 15, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Mandeep Sethi, a filmmaker and hip hop artist from California, has made available his recently-released documentary SIKLIGAR, an inside look into the history of the original weapons makers of the Khalsa Army. The Sikligar community traces their origin to Guru Gobind Singh in the 18th century, but now have been long forgotten and marginalized in India. More information about the film — and the charitable foundation taking up their cause — is below, and a recent interview with Mandeep Sethi […]

Categories: Sikhism, TV/Movies • Tags: A Little Happiness Foundation, Guru Gobind Singh, Mandeep Sethi, SIKLIGAR

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Children are evacuated from their elementary school in Newtown, CT, after a shooter attacked on December 14, 2012. (source: CNN)

Thoughts and prayers for the innocent lives lost in Newtown, CT

December 14, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I am sickened with today’s news of another mass shooting in this country, this time at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut.  Preliminary reports indicate around 20 people are dead, half or more of whom are children. It was only a couple of days ago that we were still coming to terms with a shooting at a mall in Portland, Oregon. Gun violence has been a recurring topic on this blog during the last two years, after shootings that  took […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: California, Connecticut, Elk Grove, gun violence, Gurmej Atwal, hate crimes, Newtown, Oak Creek, Surinder Singh, Wisconsin

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Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez, Department of Justice Civil Rights Division

US Assistant Attorney General visits Oak Creek, WI

December 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Visiting the gurdwara, the overwhelming message I took back from the congregation is one of unity – a resolve to work together, with members of every faith to foster understanding, and to ensure that such tragic acts of violence are never repeated. — Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez of the Civil Rights Division of US Department of Justice, after his visit to the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin last week. The Department of Justice has joined calls to have the FBI […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: FBI, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Thomas Perez, United States Assistant Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, Wisconsin

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Vigil at Sikh ReligiousVigil at Sikh Religious Society of Chicago Palatine Gurdwara in response to the murder of six Sikhs at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August.(source: Twitter user @iammintusingh)

SAAPRI and Sikh Religious Society to commemorate HR 1193

December 13, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

To commemorate the anti-hate resolution (HR 1193) passed by the State of Illinois House of Representatives in the wake of the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin and hate crimes targeting Muslims, the South Asian American Public Research Institute (SAAPRI) and the Sikh Religious Society of Chicago in Palatine, Illinois will be holding an event on Sunday, December 16: South Asian American Policy & Research Institute (SAAPRI) and Sikh Religious Society (SRS) located in Palatine commend the Illinois […]

Categories: Events, Hate Crimes • Tags: hate crimes, HR 1193, Illinois, Illinois House of Representatives, Oak Creek, Palatine, SAAPRI, Sikh Religious Society of Chicago, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, South Asian American Public Research Institute, SRS, Wisconsin

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US Population by Race and Hispanic Origin (source: US Census)

US Census forecasts increasingly diverse country

December 12, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

According to a recent forecast by the US Census Bureau, the United States will continue to become more racially diverse and will reach a level of plurality by 2043 in which no racial group will be in majority: “The next half century marks key points in continuing trends — the U.S. will become a plurality nation, where the non-Hispanic white population remains the largest single group, but no group is in the majority,” said Acting Director Thomas L. Mesenbourg. As […]

Categories: Reports/Studies • Tags: Census, Diversity, pluralism, United States, United States Census Bureau

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