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Sikh Soldiers Want More Indian Americans in U.S. Army By Yoshita Singh, Press Trust of India The United States should change its policy to allow more Indian Americans to join the military without compromising on their religious beliefs and practices, the only three Sikh soldiers in the...

Images - No image available of Colonel Canora, then Alexander Houghton Campbell Gardner, followed by Josiah Harlan Americans in Ranjeet’s Darbar What on earth were three Americans doing in the Sikh Kingdom (in the 1800’s)? By Kulbir Colin Singh Dhillon...

Most Americans Associate Turban-Wearers With OBL: Study Lalit K Jha http://news.outlookindia.com/items.aspx?artid=809491 Reflecting the low level of awareness about Sikhs in the US, a new research today said an overwhelming majority of Americans associate turban-wearers with slain...

By Simran Jeet Singh, G.B. Singh One year ago today, a white supremacist walked into a Sikh place of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin and opened fire on the congregation. The largest single act of hate-based violence in recent American history captured the attention of Americans across the...

NSA has massive database of Americans' phone calls Updated 5/11/2006 10:38 AM ET By Leslie Cauley, USA TODAY The National Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth, people with...

Maybe Americans agree about more than they know By CONNIE CASS Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/05/11/3392426/maybe-americans-agree-about-more.html#storylink=cpy WASHINGTON -- Can we agree on this? Americans still think alike much of the time even if our politicians don't. To...

Sikh Americans join Barack Obama in urging lawmakers on gun control PTI - Fri Mar 29 2013, 14:04 hrs Washington : The Sikh Americans today joined US President Barack Obama in urging the lawmakers to pass laws to curb gun violence in the United States. Several eminent members of the...

I believe all humanity comes from the original parents (whoever created the first human being ... some say we come from apes, others say we have existed forever...either way, there is a time in history when the first human beings gave birth to another human being...hence I call them "the...

Thanksgiving - remember the Native Americans today Sat Nam _/|\_ Thanksgiving is a time for being grateful, but it is also a time to remember the suffering of the Native Americans caused by the invasion of the "white man", which inevitably left the vast majority of Native Americans homeless...

Republican Representatives: Slavery a “blessing” for African-Americans, kill the prisoners, and kick out the Muslim Americans. Source: Omid Safi, Religion News There is genuinely something racist in the soul of the America these days, and that this demon will have to be confronted and...

Top 10 Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans by Karl A. Pillemer, Ph.D. Professor of Human Development, Cornell University; Professor of...

by Owen Flanagan Last month when my new book, "The Bodhisattva's Brain: Buddhism Naturalized" (MIT, 2011) was published, I was deep in the jungle among the Achuar, an indigenous people living on two million acres of primary rain forest in southeastern Ecuador and northeastern Peru. The Achuar...

By Lauren Markoe Religion News Service WASHINGTON (RNS) Americans are tougher on politicians for their financial misdeeds than their sexual ones, but men are more willing than women to tolerate sexual misbehavior in their elected officials. The findings, released Wednesday (June 22) in a...

Sikh Americans Welcome the death of Bin Laden with Caution Community suffered since 9/11 due to Mistaken Identity Washington, May 3, 2011 - Sikh community members in America have welcomed the news of Osama Bin Laden’s death in the hands of American security forces. They also expressed...

Discrimination, hate crimes against Muslim Americans rising, officials say WASHINGTON - Nearly a decade after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a new wave of bigotry and discrimination is affecting the everyday lives of many Muslim Americans, a Justice Department official and Muslim leaders said...

Richard T. Hughes Author, 'Christian America and the Kingdom of God' One can only hope that the shrill, ideological voices that distort the meaning of the Egyptian revolution will not prevail, for these are the voices that could lead to catastrophe. Some of these voices claim that the...

Curcumin, pepper, ginger, garlic have found their way into the labs of premier universities across the United States with Indian American scientists beginning to test natural products for treatment of cancer. “Almost every group is thinking and conducting animal and clinical trials from...

Washington, Dec 11 (IANS) FBI director Robert S. Mueller has apologised to a Sikh American civil rights and advocacy organization for remarks linking Sikh Americans to terrorism at an intelligence conference in October. The apology came in response to a letter of concern from the Sikh...

What do hate crimes, racial profiling, and recruitment have in common? Photo depicts a SALDEF training session with the Boston Police Department, Boston MA. They are the three reasons that SALDEF has made training law enforcement officers a priority since 1999. The law enforcement...

SALDEF Secures Apology From FBI Director For Misleading Remarks About Sikh Americans (Washington, D.C.) December 10, 2010 - In a letter to the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund (SALDEF), the nation's oldest Sikh American civil rights and advocacy organization, FBI Director...