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Ok so you all know I have been practicing tying a dastar for awhile now. I feel I'd like to wear it around people a little bit prior to doing Amrit. Would it be ok to tie it for samagam this weekend at the Gurdwara? Even if most of the time I don't tie one....yet?? Or will people look down on...

Hi Is there any turban wearing Sikh that has a stunning looking wife? Before you guys start going crazy and start quoting gurbani and saying its inside, or thats called maya etc etc - people are saying it is unheard of. Can anyone comment on this? Maybe someone who has celebrity...

Manjot Singh, Observant Sikh, Ejected From Movie Theater For Wearing Ceremonial Religious Sword Aaron Sankin http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/manjot-singh_n_3510672.html With two young kids at home, it isn't often that Manjot Singh and his wife get a night to themselves. When...

Girl denied admission by private school for wearing turban http://www.indianexpress.com/news/girl-denied-admission-by-private-school-for-wearing-turban/1094988/ This is posted from Jalandar A family belonging to Amritdhari Sikh sect has alleged that a private school denied admission to...

Sikh cyclist exempted from fine for not wearing helmet in Oz http://punjabnewsline.com/news/Sikh-cyclist-exempted-from-fine-for-not-wearing-helmet-in-Oz.html MELBOURNE: Jasdeep Atwal has become the first Sikh man in Australia exempted by court from paying fine as he was not wearing a...

No ban on wearing Sikh turbans in public: France Jayanth Jacob, http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/No-ban-on-wearing-Sikh-turbans-in-public-France/Article1-1010262.aspx Ahead of president Francois Hollande's visit to India on February 14 and 15, France has clarified that there...

Turban-wearing peer vows to fight prejudice By Sam Reeves LONDON — The country's first turban-wearing Sikh peer has vowed to dispel prejudices about his religion that have increased in the wake of terrorist attacks on the West in the past decade. Indarjit Singh, whose official title on...

BY DAVID WHITING Regardless what you think of turbans, you've got to admire the Chadha family. Father and son wear turbans everywhere. And Mom, though at time fearful for their safety, supports them. It's not that the Chadhas want to antagonize anyone in our post 9/11 world. Far from...

The Consulate-General of Saudi Arabia has written to the New Zealand Government to complain after a Saudi Arabian student was told she couldn’t board an Auckland bus because of her Muslim veil. The letter from the Saudi consulate to the Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry says student Gawheer...

Australian pub ejects man for wearing turban (AFP) – 17 hours ago BRISBANE, Australia — An Australian pub that has a no headwear policy was forced to apologise Monday after ejecting a Sikh man for refusing to take off his turban. A staff member at the Royal English Hotel in Brisbane...

June 2, 2011 Parliament to ‘accept and embrace’ wearing of kirpan, sergeant-at-arms explains JANE TABER Globe and Mail Update Posted on Thursday, June 2, 2011 11:06PM EDT Overlooked amid all the usual promises of improved decorum and tone in the House of Commons as MPs elected a...

United Sikhs Want Ban on Wearing Kirpan by Airport Staff Revoked AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing...

AMRITSAR: Bureau of Civil Aviation Security of the ministry of civil aviation has sought details of all baptized Sikh airport employees across the nation who wear kirpan to take a policy decision on the issue on whether they can wear the kirpan at the airside of the airport. Many airports...

AMRITSAR: United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated advocacy non government organization, has sought the intervention of the director general of Central Industrial Security Force, N R Dass, to revoke the ban on the wearing of the kirpan by airport employees at the airside of the Sri Guru...

Catholic Nun Forcibly Removed From Plane for Wearing Muslim Garb. Jalees Rehman, M.D.Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Chicago April 5, 2011 DAYTON, OH - Sister Cora-Ann, a Catholic nun from the Our Lady of Grace Monastery in Dayton, Ohio got the surprise of her life yesterday...

January 7, 2011 23rd Poh (Samvat 542 Nanakshahi) Plymouth-Canton Community Schools in Michigan Seeks to Find a Compromise on the Wearing of the Kirpan Superintendent has Issued a Temporary Ban Until a Resolution/ Compromise has Been Reached[/B] [/SIZE] Highlights: UNITED SIKHS and SALDEF...

Jonathan Aitken’s girl Sikhs a new lifestyle . . . Last updated at 2:04 AM on 27th October 2010 Old Etonian *Jonathan Aitken has made a career out of re-*inventing himself, from war correspondent and TV mogul to Tory MP and jailbird — and, last but by no means least, a born-again...

Talk to focus on Sikh culture By Samantha Sommer, Staff Writer 9:46 PM Tuesday, October 12, 2010 SPRINGFIELD — Wearing a turban doesn’t mean someone is a terrorist. Yet after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, many Sikhs living in the United States faced discrimination or even...

Federal Government Charges that Sikh Coalition Client Harassed by Managers and Customers, Barred From Wearing Turban, Then Fired (Boston, MA) September 29, 2010 - The federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has filed a lawsuit against AutoZone, Inc. a national automobile...

Sometimes she is in the subway when someone pops the question. Other times she is in a fast food lineup. Once she was watching a movie in a theatre when a man came up and whispered: “Why do you wear a turban?” Mandeep Kaur Uppal quickly took him outside and explained that she is a Sikh and...