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Woven bracelet that the Oak Creek Police Department had specially made for their officers to remember the shooting at the Oak Creek Gurdwara, including orange for the Sikh community, blue for the police officers, and black for those that were lost that day. (source: Sikh Coalition)

Quote of the Day: “strangers no longer”

December 11, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Things have changed in Oak Creek, of course, in the months since a gunman with white supremacist ties took the lives of six temple members and wounded four others. Oak Creek and the Sikh community are strangers no longer; they will forever be linked with each other. — An article in the Oak Creek Patch describes Sikh awareness presentations being provided to Oak Creek, Wisconsin city staff, police department and schools by the Sikh Coalition. The article also includes an […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Gurdwara, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Sikh Awareness Seminar, Sikh Coalition, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

Sikh student and teacher (Kulpreet Singh | About.com Sikhism)

Moving beyond tolerance in the classroom

November 27, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In an article published on the Not In Our Town blog, Amrit Kaur Sidhu, an intern with United Sikhs, relates personal experience to make the salient distinction between promoting diversity (“plurality”) and promoting pluralism — “the active engagement of plurality” — in the classroom: I realized that schools are the first institutions that must become a model of pluralism, in order for pluralism to seep out into the rest of society. Students are placed in a social setting with other […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Amrit Kaur Sidhu, bullying, CREATE Wisconsin, Education, hate crimes, Navjot Kaur, Not In Our Town, Oak Creek, pluralism, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

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A rendition of "Captain America" as a Sikh, by cartoonist Vishavjit Singh (source: Seattle Times)

Cartoonist Vishavjit Singh speaks about backlash to Sikh superheroes

November 23, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

In an interview on NPR, editorial cartoonist Vishavjit Singh, of sikhtoons.com, discusses the backlash he received after he wrote an opinion piece proposing the concept of a Sikh superhero that fights hate crimes: I did not expect – I mean, I am used to critique. As an editorial cartoonist, I’m used to that. I’m actually even used to threats to my life at times, because I do very hard-hitting political cartooning. But this piece, I think what happened is people […]

Categories: Art, Hate Crimes • Tags: Captain America, cartoons, comics, hate crimes, NPR, Vishavjit Singh

Still from Lt. Brian Murphy's Dash Cam video showing the mass murderer during his attack on the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin

Discounting the “lone wolf” murderer

November 21, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Despite the conclusion by the FBI that the white supremacist acted alone in his massacre of six Sikhs in Oak Creek, Wisconsin last August, an article back in September by the Center for American Progress suggests that such “lone wolves” are not really so: Indeed, the lone wolf portrayal of far-right extremism ignores the fact that these alleged loners on the right are actually embedded in networks that do preach violence. While there is no evidence to date of networks […]

Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: Center for American Progress, FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Southern Poverty Law Center, Wisconsin

Abhay and Amanat Singh honored for role in Oak Creek Sikh temple massacre (source: TMJ)

Sikh children honored for heroic act during Oak Creek, WI shooting

November 16, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Two children who were present during August’s shooting attack on the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, Gurdwara were honored yesterday by the Yell and Tell Foundation for their efforts in alerting people in the Gurdwara: Abhay Singh and his sister Amanat did the right thing when gunman Wade Page showed up at the Sikh Temple in Oak Creek and started shooting. The kids ran inside to tell adults about the dangerous situation. Their father, Benny Singh, thought divine intervention played a role […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: Abhay Singh, Amanat Singh, Benny Singh, hate crimes, Oak Creek, shootings, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, Yell and Tell Foundation

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Oak Creek Police Lt. Brian Murphy and Officer Sam Lenda recall the shooting at the Oak Creak, Wisconsin, Gurdwara in August (source: CBS News)

Oak Creek, WI, officers recall day of shooting

November 14, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On the CBS Evening News, Oak Creek Police Lieutenant Brian Murphy and Officer Sam Lenda describe the events during the shooting rampage at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August. Lt. Murphy offers several reflections, including about the shooter who took his own life: “He’s dead. He’s nothin’. The people who remain, the people who carry on, that’s what’s important,” he said. View the video and read more at CBS News.

Categories: Hate Crimes, News Bits • Tags: CBS Evening News, hate crimes, Lt. Brian Murphy, Oak Creek, Officer Sam Lenda, shootings, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

Picture of the Day: The pain and resilience of the Oak Creek’s Sikhs

October 22, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Adam Morris, a photographer for MilwaukeeMag.com, shares his photos of the survivors of the shooting at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin in August: Look at their faces. Look into their eyes. You’ll see pain, heartbreak and weariness. But you’ll also see resilience and, in some instances, even defiance. Family members, survivors, priests and temple leaders stared unflinchingly into the camera’s lens. Here they were – and are and will continue to be – in a sacred space where they […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Picture of the Day • Tags: Adam Morris, hate crimes, MilwaukeeMag.com, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

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Fourth WI shooting victim, Punjab Singh, released from hospital

October 17, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Punjab Singh, the fourth and last remaining hospitalized victim of the Oak Creek, Wisconsin shooting, has been released from hospital: MILWAUKEE – A Sikh priest injured in an August shooting rampage at his Milwaukee-area temple has been transferred from the hospital to a long-term care facility. The family of Punjab Singh said in a statement Wednesday that he still requires around-the-clock care. They say they’ve made arrangements to transfer him to a health facility where he’ll receive that care. Singh […]

Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: hate crimes, Oak Creek, Punjab Singh, Wisconsin

Harpeet Singh Saini testifies at a US Senate hearing about the mass shooting that took his mother during the 2012 Oak Creek Gurdwara mass shooting in Wisconsin. Photo: C-SPAN

Thoughts on the US Senate hearing on hate violence

September 21, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On Wednesday, as many had, I watched the webcast of the US Senate hearing “Hate Crimes and the Threat of Domestic Extremism” in which testimony was given by various government agencies and representatives of points of view in relation to hate violence. Among those providing testimony was Harpreet Singh Saini, one of the sons (his brother Kamaljit Singh Saini was also in attendance) of victim Paramjit Kaur, who was killed in the shooting rampage at the Gurdwara in Oak Creek, […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Events, Hate Crimes, Politics • Tags: Daryl Johnson, Dick Durbin, extremism, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Harpreet Singh Saini, hate crimes, Hate Crimes & the Threat of Domestic Extremism, Herb Kohl, Kamaljit Singh Saini, Oak Creek, Paramjit Kaur, Richard Blumenthal, Wisconsin

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Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

Tag: hate crimes

Quote of the Day: “strangers no longer”

Moving beyond tolerance in the classroom

Cartoonist Vishavjit Singh speaks about backlash to Sikh superheroes

Discounting the “lone wolf” murderer

Sikh children honored for heroic act during Oak Creek, WI shooting

Oak Creek, WI, officers recall day of shooting

Picture of the Day: The pain and resilience of the Oak Creek’s Sikhs

Fourth WI shooting victim, Punjab Singh, released from hospital

Thoughts on the US Senate hearing on hate violence