Sikhs

The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) immediately criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken for once again leaving Nigeria off the State Department’s annual list of “Countries of Particular Concern” (CPC) for religious oppression. 

Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar denounced the “climate of violence” against Indian diplomats in Canada.

A group of hackers calling themselves the “Indian Cyber Force” claimed responsibility on Thursday for crashing the official website of the Canadian Armed Forces.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declined to publicize the evidence for his allegations of murder against the Indian government on Thursday, but he said the evidence was copious and called on India to cooperate with the investigation into Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar’s death.

Canadian PM Justin Trudeau was scolded by Indian PM Narendra Modi for indulging in protest marches by Sikh separatists.

A bill proposed by California State Sen. Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) to allow those who wear religious turbans or head coverings to be exempt from state law requiring motorcycle helmets advanced in the State Senate last week.

A growing conflict between India’s Hindu-majority government and Sikh separatists spilled over into Canada on Saturday, as hundreds of Canadian citizens with family ties to India’s Punjab gathered in Vancouver to protest reported human rights violations by Indian security forces.

A man was arrested after an egg was thrown at new monarch Charles III while on walkabout meeting members of the public in an English town. 

The video shows a masked man who says he is a Sikh named Jaswant Singh Chail vowing to assassinate the Queen as revenge for a 1919 massacre.

A mob of Sikhs beat a man to death inside the Golden Temple, one of the most revered shrines in Sikhism, in Amritsar, India.

Afghan Sikhs and Hindus attempting to flee Kabul following the Taliban’s recent takeover of the city are turning down offers to evacuate to India in favor of waiting for unguaranteed opportunities to fly to the U.S. and Canada, the Times of India reported Wednesday.

Members of the Sikh community gathered with Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett (D) Saturday and called for more gun control in the wake of the FedEx attack.

The Network of Sikh Organisations praised the Editors’ Code for recommending against using the word ‘Asian’ in reference to grooming gangs.

India’s foreign minister will skip a Canada-led coronavirus meeting after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued comments in support of ongoing farmer protests in India, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on Monday.

The only known Jewish citizen in Afghanistan says that the country’s future political system “should ensure the protection of all minorities in the country and their humanitarian rights,” Afghanistan’s TOLO News reported on Thursday.

The Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO) has called on the media to stop referring to grooming gangs that are predominantly comprised of perpetrators from a Pakistani Muslim background as “Asian”, which inaccurately incorporates British Hindu and Sikh communities.

“Violence and terrorism against people of all faiths must end and it must end now,” Trump said, as the audience applauded.

Contents: Kashmir experiences bloodiest year since 2009; India and Pakistan approve the Kartarpur Corridor, connecting Sikh shrines; Corridor raises concerns about activating the Sikh separatist Khalistan movement

Gangs of predominantly Muslim men have been grooming and raping British Sikh girls for decades, with police often ignoring signs because of political correctness, according to a bombshell report.

Paul Johnson set fire to a Methodist church and a Sikh gurdwara in Scotland because he had “issues” with religion and wanted to make a “political statement”, a court has heard.

The heads of UK Sikh, Hindu, and Pakistani Christian organisations have said that Sarah Champion should not have been “sacked” from Labour’s front bench for speaking out on the racial aspect of grooming gangs.

Contents: Pakistan celebrates its 70th birthday, wondering what Pakistan is; Generational history of the 1947 Partition War that created Pakistan and India

A group of Sikhs in Virginia has created a new political organization to emphasize their support for the U.S. Constitution, partly because the media has often portrayed Sikhs as sidekicks for separatist Islamic groups in the United States.

The U.S. Army has made a major move to relax uniform regulations to allow religious garb such as turbans, beards, and hijabs or head scarves to be worn by soldiers, according to reports.

The New York Police Department is allowing Sikh officers to wear full turbans in place of the traditional police cap and grow beards up to a half-inch long as required by their religion.