anti-Sikhism
20 years after the first Taliban regime, will we again target people based on how they look?
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 18, 2021
(RNS) — Have we learned anything about our own bigotry and extremism, and the rights of religious minorities?
Samrath Singh, first turbaned Sikh to play NCAA baseball, is more than the challenges he has overcome
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 5, 2021
(RNS) — ‘I’m confident in who I am and I love myself, and the people around me, my own beliefs, and my religion, have helped me accept myself and be proud of who I am,’ said New Jersey native and Boston College senior Samrath Singh.
Treating the Indianapolis attack as a hate crime will keep us all safer
By Simran Jeet Singh — April 22, 2021
(RNS) — Eyewitness accounts suggest bias as a motivation for the shooting.
US Sikh community traumatized by yet another mass shooting
By Casey Smith and Luis Andres Henao — April 21, 2021
(RNS)— The motive for last week's rampage is still unclear, but Sikh community leaders believe more must be done to combat the bigotry and violence they have suffered for decades.
Moving from pain to action: an address to the Sikh community after Indianapolis
By Simran Jeet Singh — April 17, 2021
(RNS) — What have we done to fulfill our promise to make the world a better and safer place?
Why Hindu nationalists are attacking Sikhs in Australia
By Simran Jeet Singh — March 11, 2021
(RNS) — Hindu nationalists outside India are now terrorizing Sikhs in response to the historic farmer protests.
Writing the inspirational Sikh story my children — and everyone — need to see
By Simran Jeet Singh — August 25, 2020
(RNS) — If kids can learn to see the humanity of those who look different from them, they can learn to see the humanity in everyone they encounter — including their own.
Hate crime charge added for Colorado man accused of running over Sikh store owner
By Aysha Khan — July 22, 2020
(RNS) — Prosecutors have added a hate crime charge against a man accused of striking a 61-year-old Sikh man with his car and leaving him for dead almost three months ago.
Afghanistan can’t protect its Sikhs from terror. It’s time for America to step up.
By Simran Jeet Singh — March 27, 2020
(RNS) — How do we make sense of violent extremists who come into our sacred spaces with hate in their hearts? And how do we keep ourselves from being victims of their anger?
Bomb disrupts funeral for 25 Sikhs killed in Afghan capital
By Tameem Akhgar — March 26, 2020
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan claimed responsibility for the attack on services for those killed in Wednesday's rampage at a Sikh house of worship in Kabul's old city.
2012 Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting survivor dies of wounds
By Todd Richmond — March 4, 2020
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Baba Punjab Singh died Monday, bringing the death toll in the temple attack to seven and making it the worst mass shooting in Wisconsin since 2005.
Before another shooting, let’s do these necessary things to stop hate
By Pardeep Kaleka — October 28, 2019
(RNS) — Bipartisan support of common-sense legislation such as the Khalid Jabara-Heather Heyer NO HATE Act will equip law enforcement to identify and track hate incidents more effectively.
An American Muslim imam’s letter to the American Sikh community
By Omar Suleiman — October 22, 2019
(RNS) — Despite the real harm Islamophobia has caused Sikhs, they have consistently refused to throw the Muslim community under the bus by simply distancing themselves from Islam.
After call from Indian official, library pulls Sikh ‘genocide’ memorial
By Aysha Khan — October 16, 2019
(RNS) — After an Indian official called the Connecticut library, the entire memorial — which accused India of committing genocide against Sikhs in 1984 — was quietly removed from the library.
A pat-down at the airport passes the shame of racial profiling to my 3-year-old
By Simran Jeet Singh — October 9, 2019
(RNS) — Racial profiling takes a toll on our deepest and most sacred relationships, reason enough to end this damaging and painful practice.