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US Sikh arrested in Baltimore grocery store for carrying kirpan, released
• 8 years agoA 33-year-old Sikh convert was handcuffed and arrested in the United States for carrying a kirpan after a customer at a grocery store called the police.
Sikh rights group asks US authorities to probe Washington state shooting as 'hate crime'
• 8 years agoA Sikh rights group has asked US authorities to investigate as a hate crime the attack on a 39-year-old Sikh man amid the Indian-American community's safety concerns after a slew of bias-related incidents in the country
The Sikh Project: Photographers Amit-Naroop are documenting a community's identity
Ankitam • 8 years agoPhotographers Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti are chronicling the 'Sikh identity' through portraits of men and women from the community, in the US (where their work is known as The Sikh Project), and previously in the UK (where their series was called The Singh project)
US teen who punched Sikh, called him 'Bin Laden' on 9/11 anniversary gets two years' probation
Fp Archives • 9 years agoA US teen, charged with hate crime after he assaulted a Sikh man last year, calling him a terrorist and bin Laden, has been sentenced to two years probation
US court bats for religious rights of Sikh officer, asks army to drop discriminatory testing
Fp Archives • 9 years agoA US court has ruled in favour of a decorated Sikh army captain who demanded that the military accommodate his faith and abandon its discriminatory testing
Sikh-American brutally assaulted in Chicago; called 'terrorist', 'Bin Laden'
Fp Archives • 10 years agoAn elderly Sikh-American man was brutally injured and called "terrorist" and "Bin Laden" in an apparent hate crime case in Chicago
New York: Truck driver runs over Sikh man after racial abuse
Fp Archives • 11 years agoA 29-year old Sikh man is in critical condition after he was hit by a pickup truck in New York and dragged nearly 30 feet following an argument between him and the driver who allegedly hurled racist slur at him and his friend.
How Satwant Singh Kaleka died protecting his gurdwara
Choudhury • 13 years agoDespite America’s efforts at being a pluralistic society, 60 percent of turban-wearing boys are harassed in schools.
Sikhs in turbans can now serve Washington police
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe new uniform policy announced by Washington DC police Chief Cathy Lanier Wednesday makes it the first major metropolitan police department in the US to permit Sikhs to maintain their articles of faith.
US Sikh group launches mobile app to combat racial profiling
Fp Archives • 13 years agoThe Sikh Coalition, a US based community group, has launched FlyRights, an innovative mobile application that allows users to report instances of airport profiling in real time.