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An incident involving a turban pat-down at Baltimore/Washington International Airport has sparked a growing concern in Maryland's Sikh American community, among the largest in the country, about eroding its civil liberties in the name of security. 
When a screener at BWI/Marshall wanted to pat-down Prabhjit Singh's turban a couple of months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, he had a copy of the federal guidelines handy that said it was not necessary unless his turban set off the metal detector. |
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Members of the National Coalition of South Asian Organizations, a network of 35 community-based groups in twelve regions around the country, mark the historic occasion of a new Administration and Congress. We offer our congratulations to President-Elect Barack Obama on his victory on November 4th.
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Here is a chat on Yahoo that our staff at the Sikh Community Center recently encountered. It concerns whether it is against Sikhism to eat Halal food. |
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A paralysed Sikh, who evaded deportation from Canada to India for two years by hiding at various gurdwaras (Sikh shrines) in that country, finally reached his native Sohal Khalsa village in this Punjab district Thursday. Laibar Singh, 48, who entered Canada on fake papers in 2003, had sought refugee status on grounds of religious persecution in India. He was deported by Canadian authorities from Vancouver Wednesday. 
Singh, who had illegally migrated to Canada in search of greener pastures, soon found himself helpless after he was paralysed in 2006. He hid himself in various gurdwaras to evade Canadian immigration authorities for nearly two-and-half years.
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