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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, on converting to Christianity

April 3, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Last night, my family gathered around the television to watch Nikki Haley be interviewed by Stephen Colbert (click for full interview) on The Colbert Report. The Governor of South Carolina has been doing a book tour to promote her memoir Can’t Is Not an Option, and has been appearing on many talk shows in New York. As she comes from an immigrant Sikh family, many American Sikhs have a curiosity around Haley (she has been written about on this blog […]

Categories: News Bits, Politics • Tags: Christianity, Colbert Report, New York Times, Nikki Haley, South Carolina, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report

Questioning multi-culturalism: Ditching the car because of a flat tire

July 7, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

An Op-Ed piece by Kenan Malik that was published in the New York Times proposes that multi-culturalism, as it implemented in England, is a failure: The real question is not how people like Mohammad Sidique Khan, the leader of the 7/7 bombers, came to be radicalized, but why so many young men, who by all accounts are intelligent, articulate and integrated, come to find this violent, reactionary ideology so attractive. To answer it, we need to look not at extremist […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Interfaith • Tags: 7/7, England, Kenan Malik, London, Multiculturalism, New York Times

UPDATE: New York Times revises its label for Sikh-related stories

June 1, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

I received a note today from an editor at New York Times indicating that they have revised their topic heading for Sikh-related stories on their website to “Sikhs and Sikhism”. Previously, the NYT categorized all stories related to Sikhs under the tag “Sikhs (Sect)”. When I discovered that the NYT used the word “sect” to describe Sikhism, I sent their editors a short e-mail advising them that the label was inappropriate in the context of their other topic headings for other religions (no other faith […]

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New York Times categorizes Sikhs as "Sikhs (Sect)"

New York Times categorizes Sikhs as “Sect”

May 11, 2011 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

While I was writing my previous post, I discovered that the New York Times, on its website, categorizes Sikhs as “Sikhs (Sect)”. The following is a screen capture: As Sikhism is its own distinct faith, and one of the largest faiths (by adherent population) in the world, this is clearly a misnomer by the New York Times. The obvious question, then, is: of what other religion does the New York Times think the Sikhs are a sect? A quick look at […]

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Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, on converting to Christianity

Questioning multi-culturalism: Ditching the car because of a flat tire

UPDATE: New York Times revises its label for Sikh-related stories

New York Times categorizes Sikhs as “Sect”