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Six months since the Oak Creek, WI, Gurdwara shooting

February 5, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Today marks six months since the mass shooting of Sikhs in their place of worship by a white supremacist in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. In recognition of this span of time, filmmakers Valarie Kaur and Sharat Raju released a short film entitled Oak Creek: In Memoriam which recounts that fateful moment and the days since. On this day, the Sikh Coalition provided an update about their activities in the Oak Creek, Wisconsin, area in educating city officials, law enforcement and school […]

Categories: Hate Crimes, Reflections • Tags: Oak Creek, Oak Creek: In Memoriam, Sharat Raju, Sikh Coalition, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, Steve Scaffidi, Valarie Kaur, White supremacy, Wisconsin

White supremacy references not included in DHS keyword searches

January 31, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

A recent article in Forbes Magazine reports on the keywords that the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) monitors on social networking sites: …the DHS has been forced to release a list of keywords and phrases it uses to monitor various social networking sites. The list provides a glimpse into what DHS describes as “signs of terrorist or other threats against the U.S.” Among the words that were listed, there is a notable absence of any terminology related to white supremacy or “white […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: Daryl Johnson, DHS, Forbes, Ku Klux Klan, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, United States Department of Homeland Security, White supremacy, Wisconsin

White hate self portrait (source: Mr. Fish/truthdig)

Is white supremacy in the US on the cusp of a renaissance?

January 28, 2013 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

On truthdig, Chris Hedges examines the “disquieting renaissance” of white supremacy in the southern United States (via @jakaramovement): The steady rise of ethnic nationalism over the past decade, the replacing of history with mendacious and sanitized versions of lost glory, is part of the moral decay that infects a dying culture. It is a frightening attempt, by those who are desperate and trapped, to escape through invented history their despair, impoverishment and hopelessness. It breeds intolerance and eventually violence. Violence […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: Chris Hedges, hate crimes, Ku Klux Klan, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, slavery, Southern United States, White supremacy, Wisconsin

Police action during the shooting attack on the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August 2012. (source: Daily Record and Sunday Mail)

White Supremacy: The Unspoken Truth

December 27, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Co-blogged with Nina Chanpreet Kaur “All the talking is done and now it’s time to walk the walk / Revolution’s in the air 9mm in my hand / You can run but you can’t hide from this master plan.” (Song lyrics by Wade Michael Page’s band End Apathy) A few weeks ago, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) closed its investigation into the mass shooting that occurred at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in August, in which six Sikhs were […]

Categories: Civil Rights, Hate Crimes • Tags: FBI, FBI Hate Crime Statistics, Federal Bureau of Investigation, hate crimes, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, United States Department of Justice, Wade Michael Page, White supremacy, Wisconsin

"Former white supremacist speaks at Sikh event" (source: Fox6Now)

Former white supremacist speaks at Sikh Temple of Wisconsin

November 28, 2012 by Rupinder Mohan Singh

Arno Michaelis, a reformed white supremacist and author of the book My Life After Hate, comments on speaking at an event held last week hosted by the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin: “There certainly is a lot of compelling discussion to be had about who I was and who I could have become, and I’m happy to talk about that, but tonight’s not about me — it’s about the principles of Heritage Day and of human beings appreciating the differences that we […]

Categories: Hate Crimes • Tags: Arno Michaelis, Heritage Day, My Life After Hate, Oak Creek, Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, White supremacy, Wisconsin

Considering the experience of Sikhs in America.

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