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Community Encourgaed to Contact Senators to Support Bullying Bill Last week, on March 10, 2011, Jasjit Singh, Associate Executive Director of SALDEF, was invited as a representative of the Sikh American community to the White House Conference on Bullying...

Press release received by email SALDEF Applauds Hate Crime Conviction in Attack of Sikh American Cab Driver...

Two Elderly Sikh American Men Shot in Possible Hate Crime Press Release by email...

Is It Time For A Second American Revolution? by BOB HERBERT As the throngs celebrated in Cairo, I couldn't help wondering about what is happening to democracy here in the United States. I think it's on the ropes. We're in serious danger of becoming a democracy in name only. While millions of...

Most American Gurdwaras Will Not Follow New Nanakshahi Calendar By Anju Kaur, SikhNN staff writer, Washington Bureau Posted: Friday, February 18, 2011 | 12:11 pm Reporting from Washington - American gurdwaras representatives formally declared that they will not institute changes made last year...

USA: January 22, 2011. (PCP) The World Sikh Council – America Region (WSC-AR) appreciates and stands in solidarity with the efforts of Sikhs in Canada, led by the World Sikh Organization (WSO) of Canada, in refusing to enter the Quebec National Assembly on January 18, 2011 without their...

Maureen Fiedler Host, Interfaith Voices On Jan. 4, Cardinal Franc Rode resigned as head of the "cabinet office" in the Vatican that deals with religious orders, including communities of nuns worldwide. It's called the Congregation for the Institutes of Consecrated Life and the Societies...

David Sehat Author, 'The Myth of American Religious Freedom' Today (Jan. 16) is the National Day of Religious Freedom, a day in which we are supposed both to recognize our nation's heritage of religious liberty and to promote that liberty to the world. But as Walter Lippmann once said...

Question I have been considering as I have recently begun embracing Sikhism - kase, turban and bani. I was watching a video on american exceptionalism - the idea that america is something special and is a example to the rest of the world. It seems that most of the founding fathers agreed on...

On Dec. 4, Yuba-Sutter Sikh community members fed about 100 needy fellow human beings. About 200 sandwiches and soft drinks were served. Large numbers of volunteers and needy people showed up at this event despite the rain. The Sikh community organized this meal to celebrate Gurpurab (Day of...

YouTube - American parents VS Indian Parents Rajneesh Madhok

Judging by how Oklahoma voted in the recent election, one might conclude that despite its tiny Muslim population, Oklahoma was on the verge of becoming an Islamic caliphate in Middle America. The reality is of course far different. Oklahoma State Question 755, which passed, asked voters whether...

WASHINGTON — Three national Sikh advocacy and civil rights organizations have said federal transportation officials plan to always search turbans at airport screening stations, even if wearers pass through state-of-the-art body imaging scanners. The groups are calling on their constituents to...

New report highlights growing American xenophobia Politics, US — By Erik Love on November 1, 2010 at 12:45 pm South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), a nationally prominent advocacy organization, released a new report this week called “From Macacas to Turban Toppers: The Rise in...

Policy of Discrimination Reversed: Sikh American Child Allowed to Enroll In Texas Public School October 28, 2010 (Clute, TX) - SALDEF in collaboration with the Texas Civil Rights Project (TCRP) has succeeded in overturning a long-standing policy of discrimination against religious headgear...

Many sociologists of religion, as well as the general public, seem to take for granted the causal relationship between higher education and the decline of religion. The more educated someone becomes, the theory goes, the less religious they are likely to be. As European and American universities...

Top American graduates heading to India for employment link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPDHfqpEVD4

Visit this link and enjoy. After my singing in each short video is a brief explanation in English of the meaning of each Shabad. http://www.khalsanews.org/newspics/2010/09Sep2010/24%20Sep%2010/24%20Sep%2010%20Harsimrat%20Kaur.htm

Frank Mahoney Burroughs. Federal officials claim AutoZone illegally fired an Everett worker who converted to Sikhism - and did little to stop...

Posted for forum member Tejwant Singh ji Malik American-born Guru Singh is the first Sikh to be cast in a situational comedy on network television. He will play the part of an Indian call-center employee in the new NBC show, Outsourced. Guru Singh plays Ajeet, an Indian call-center worker...