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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...

Sikhs attending the London 2012 Olympics will be able to carry a small dagger, known as the kirpan, following reassurances from Lord Coe. In a letter to the Sikh Federation, the former gold medal-winning athlete and chairman of the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games, wrote that...

Sikhs look to ease tensions over ceremonial dagger DETROIT -- Tensions over a Sikh boy who took a religious sword to an elementary school have prompted a public meeting Thursday night to introduce the Sikh religion to metro Detroiters. Last month, controversy erupted after a fourth-grade...

Let Sikh pupils wear ceremonial daggers, judge says Let Sikh pupils wear ceremonial daggers, judge says | World news | guardian.co.uk Britain's first Asian judge Sir Mota Singh says Sikhs should not be banned from wearing kirpans to school or work Britain's first Asian judge has called for...

Sikhs permitted to wear ceremonial daggers to Olympic events Thursday, October 15, 2009 The Kirpan is a Sikh religious symbol comparable to the Christian cross. Initiated Sikh men will be permitted to wear ceremonial daggers less than 7.5 inches in length to Vancouver 2010 Winter Games...

SIKH students would be allowed to carry small daggers to school under a plan that has outraged teachers and principals. More...

CONTROLS on pupils bringing ceremonial knives into our schools are virtually nonexistant, a survey conducted by the Slough Express has found. Of the 12 schools contacted by this newspaper only one gave a clear policy on the wearing of 'kirpans', the Sikh ceremonial knife, by pupils...

OTTAWA (CP) - The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment Tuesday in the landmark case of a Sikh teenager who was prohibited from wearing his ceremonial dagger to class at his west-end Montreal school...

OTTAWA (CP) - Lawyers wrestled over whether a Sikh's ceremonial dagger is a weapon as the Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment Tuesday in the landmark case of a teen prohibited from wearing one at his Montreal school...