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The Sikh Coalition Fateh! September 2, 2011 [ http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150269842457003.336997.8401147002 ] Mayor Bloomberg Signs Landmark Bill into Law (New York, New York) September 2, 2011 - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed into law a bill -initiated by...

A new bill, initiated by Sikh activists and enacted by the New York City council, to protect workers against religious discrimination, adds momentum for such legislation at the federal level, a U.S. senator said. "Like a lot of issues, pressure sometimes has to come from outside Washington to...

HARIPUR Once a symbol of military might, Fort Hari KishanGarh now stands unprotected. The fort, which is the largest archaeological site in Haripur, has been exposed to several encroachments by the authorities themselves, while the archaeology department has turned a blind eye towards its...

Man charged over 'sharia law' lashing Updated July 19, 2011 10:20:57 (Brad Markham, file photo: ABC News) A man has been charged over an alleged sharia law punishment where a Sydney man was lashed 40 times in his bed. Police say the 31-year-old victim woke to find four bearded...

by Marylyn Sewell It is an unfortunate truth that happiness and good fortune rarely deepen us spiritually. It is when we run into unbearable grief and loss we are unprepared for that we are stripped of our vanity and our pride and begin to see, rock-bottom, what is really important to us...

Islamabad: July 13, 2011. (PCP) Human Rights Focus Pakistan (HRFP) organized a Press Conference on “the minorities’ issues”. The Minorities leaders of Christians, Hindus, Sikhs and others also speak at the conference. Naveed Walter President HRFP said in his news conference “The minorities’...

What a drag … Iceland considers prescription-only cigarettes Tobacco bill proposes outlawing shop sales, with only doctors allowed to prescribe cigarettes to addicts unable to kick habit Iceland is considering banning the sale of cigarettes and making them a...

By Daniel Mach and Jamil Dakwar Religion News Service NEW YORK (RNS) A discriminatory and wholly unfounded idea is taking root in state legislatures across the country: attempts to pass laws that would explicitly and unnecessarily ban state courts from applying or even considering Islamic...

Sikhism mandated at California’s Statewide Law enforcement training By GURJASPAL SINGH Published: May 1, 2011 California (April 30, 2011): In a huge win for the Sikh community, starting this summer, all law enforcement officers in the state of California will be trained to identify and...

by Ananth Krishnan No mention of penalties for breaking the regulations The first thing Wang Shuying did after exchanging wedding rings was to whip out a cigarette lighter. Her first act as a newly-wed was to light a cigarette for her husband, following a widely prevalent modern Chinese...

Wajahat Ali In the past year, a group of conservative pundits and analysts have identified sharia, or Islamic religious law, as a growing threat to the United States. These pundits and analysts argue that the steady adoption of sharia's tenets is a strategy extremists are using to transform...

Steinberg, law enforcement leaders talk to Sikh community WEST SACRAMENTO, CA - The Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg spoke at the Sikh Temple in Sacramento Sunday to show solidarity with the community. Steinberg was joined by the West Sacramento police chief and a representative...

Two Sikh Gentlemen Gunned Down in California: Law Enforcement Urged to Investigate as a Potential Hate Crime; Community Asked to be Vigilant HIGHLIGHTS: UNITED SIKHS has contacted Members of Congress, US Attorney's Office in California, and Department of Justice to ensure that...

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Hi everyone So my curiosity got the better of me tonight and I watched an episode of an Islamic da'wah program. It happened to be about women in Islam and was a recording of a Western woman who converted in the late '70s giving a talk at a US uni campus Muslim conference in 2002. Gee, I wish I...

Pope asks Pak to scrap anti-blasphemy law Vatican City, January 10 Pope Benedict XVI today called on Pakistan to scrap a blasphemy law after the murder of the Governor of Punjab, saying the legislation was a pretext for “acts of injustice and violence”. “I once more encourage the leaders of...

THE 10 COMMANDMENTS 2.0 For millennia, these ancient laws have been central to our way of life. Are they still relevant? Or is it time for an upgrade? NEARLY 3,500 YEARS AGO, Exodus tells us, God inscribed the Ten Commandments onto two stone tablets for the Israelites. Although Jewish...

British law spurs scrutiny of excess packaging ELISABETH ROSENTHAL The citizens of Lincolnshire, England, were so fed up with the layers of plastic and cardboard and Styrofoam that encased their store purchases this fall that they took a high-priced, highly wrapped piece of meat to...

http://www.sikhchic.com/people/gursharan_kaur_first_among_equals "She is a very humble, warm and a forgiving person. Her brother was killed in the 1984 anti-Sikh pogroms but she has no sense of anger in her," says Khushwant Singh. The one occasion when she lost her cool was in 1999 when...

New Delhi: The national capital, which has been using a 51-year-old law to deal with begging, is drafting a more "humane" legislation incorporating various welfare schemes, an official said. Delhi, along with 17 other states, adopted the (Bombay) Prevention of Begging Act, 1959, which...