Monday, December 10, 2012
A representative of the Sikh Coalition is in Oak Creek this week to educate people about the Sikh religion.
One of the many realizations following the Aug. 5 mass shooting at the Oak Creek Sikh temple was how little people knew about the Sikh faith. Despite being the fifth-largest religion in the world, the shootings were—sadly—an introduction to the Sikh community for many in Oak Creek and across the country, 100 years after the first Sikhs came to the United States. Things have changed in Oak Creek, of course, in the months since a gunman with white supremacist ties took the lives of six temple members and wounded four others. Oak Creek and the Sikh community are strangers no longer; they will forever be linked with each other. But there is still work to be done, and that brought a representative of the national Sikh Coalition to Oak Creek and…
Monday, September 17, 2012
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 …
Thursday, September 6, 2012
An Oak Creek Sikh temple member lost about $1,900 in a scam related to the Aug. 5 shooting at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin, according to a police report.
After a Sikh Temple of Wisconsin member lost more than $1,900 to a scam related to the Aug. 5 shooting, a national Sikh group is urging members to be alert to similar scams. According to an Oak Creek police report, an Sikh temple member told police he got a phone call from a person claiming to be from the FBI and White House. The person told the temple member he wanted to buy him a house, pay for plane tickets to India and give him free medical insurance. The temple member wired a total of about $1,900 to India, according to the report. After speaking with several people in the Sikh community, the member realized he fell victim to fraud. The New York-based Sikh Coalition said in a news release that scammers may prey on the compassion of …
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12:07 pm on Sunday, December 23, 2012
Sure would be nice if the public were informed and invited but we were not. more ›