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temple before heading downstairs to the Langar. It was great to hear about the religion from someone who is a member themselves. The concept that he emphasized the most was that each person should be the best that they could be, whether that was a Sikh, Christian, atheist or anything else. Sikhism is the only religion that I have heard about that does not put a great focus on expanding their followers through conversion, and I think that part of this is due to their respect for everyone’s…

realized that all of India had come to a complete stop they were shocked and had Mahatma arrested-for his fourth time. Unfortunately without the nonviolence leader Mr.Gandhi around the Indians were irate and began rioting, causing the Amritsar Massacre at Sikh temple. Mr.Gandhi returns with a different way to not only unify the people of India but also strike at the British using nonviolence. The burning of clothes was a symbol of unification of people of Hindu and Muslim religions and well as a…

There are different types of freedom, some for example are freedom of conscience, to achieve a coherent and balanced life from the inside; Freedom of expression, in order to disseminate ideas and promote open debate and discussion; Freedom of assembly as a guarantee to associate with those who share ideals and work for them; Freedom to choose responsibly and peacefully to the rulers, among others. After this brief analysis of the concept of freedom, we see what it encompasses and what it means,…

Everyone around her loves her but none know about her background. She was living with her son as just another Pakistani Muslim. 32 years later, a group of Sikh pilgrims come to pray at holy shrines in their village. One of them, his brother, comes to find and take her back home to the dying father, only to find her widowed with a son. The movie ends with Ayesha jumping into a well, unable to get rid of her…

important for two reasons. First, scholars agree that their faith was a sort of glue to the family, both important and kept through their adaptation to the States. Second, most scholars seem to focus mainly on Muslims and Hindus with a slight inclusion of Sikhs, leaving Parsis out entirely and just a few references to the Buddhists. If their faith is such an important part of their adaptation, then exploration beyond the immigrants of Muslim and Hindu faith needs to be developed to get a…

New immigrants to Canada are much more likely to have babies than their native-born counterparts. Immigrant women who have spent five years in Canada “have almost twice as many children of pre-school age (as) the average Canadian-born woman,” according to an extensive study by two noted economists. The University of Waterloo’s Ana Ferrer and Princeton University’s Alicia Adsera pored over two decades of Statistics Canada census data to reach their conclusion. There are major birthrate…

cause conflict but also a mistrusted between the police department and the public. Which is why it is important for the police department to be responsibility aware of the different custum within a culture. For an example if it is a culture custom for Sikhs men to wear a knife on their side, then I believed that the police should…

generations, foreign religions and cultures were rarely encountered. However, in modern times this has changed. With increasing immigration, one of my friends may be Hindu, my boss could be Muslim, and the person in front of me at a Wonderland line could be Sikh. In such a diverse world, we must understand each others faiths so…

Islamophobia, defined as “indiscriminate negative attitudes or emotions directed at Islam or Muslims” and also known as anti-Muslim discrimination, is both an organic and manufactured phenomena that has deep historical roots in orientalism whose origins date back several centuries ago. With that being said, the scope of this paper deals with the modern emergence of Islamophobia in the United States, particularly in the last three decades. Significant events such as the September 11, 2001 attacks…

Intertwined) This is not the only incident where this prejudicial violence fell upon people not members of the target group. On the first Saturday following 9/11, in Mesa, Arizona, a man Sikh man was gunned down at a gas station. Another instance still, was the shooting and killing of six worshippers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012. (Deepa, Column: Post-9/11 Discrimination Must…