Sikhs To Testify at Senate Hearing on Hate Violence
An Oak Creek Sikh temple member, who lost his mother in the Aug. 5 shootings, is among those scheduled to testify Wednesday.
National Sikh community leaders and a member of the Oak Creek Sikh temple are preparing for a U.S. Senate hearing Wednesday on violent extremism, held in response to the Aug. 5 shootings at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin. Harpreet Singh Saini, whose mother was killed in the attacks, will be among those speaking at the hearing. In his testimony, Saini will request the FBI give his mother "the dignity of being a statistic" and start tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, according to the New York-based Sikh Coalition. The FBI does not keep track of hate crimes against Sikh-Americans, as it does other religious and racial groups, and national Sikh groups renewed calls for that to change following the attack at the Oak Creek Sikh temple, including …
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Mark Schaaf
11:00 am on Wednesday, September 19, 2012
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