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Sikhs of America parade float at the 2016 Martin Luther King Day parade in Midtown Houston Houston Sikh Community at the 2016 Martin Luther King Day parade in Midtown Houston. As a result of the September 11 attacks, some Sikh Americans have become subject to discrimination, often from individuals who mistakenly believe that they are Arab or ...
Anti-Sikh sentiment (also known as Sikhophobia) is fear or prejudice against Sikhs. Anti-Sikh sentiment can be motivated by an ethnic hatred of Sikhs or religious hatred of Sikhism , but in Western countries it can also be fueled by Islamophobia , stemming from a conflation of Sikhs and Muslims .
Demonstrators marching against bullying in schools in Richmond Hill, New York, on June 30, 2008. The Sikh Coalition is a Sikh-American non-profit advocacy group that defends Sikh civil rights founded in 2001 with offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Fremont, California.
Members of the Sikh community in the San Francisco Bay area have told U.S. law enforcement officials that they face severe workplace discrimination and hate, and want the federal government to be ...
Sikh activist Bobby Singh, left, a Sacramento State student, stands in 2019 at a Sikh activism conference in Toronto with Hardeep Nijjar, who was allegedly assassinated by Indian intelligence on ...
People with roots in Mexico's Oaxaca state joined Sikhs' push for the ban after city and labor leaders in L.A. were caught on tape having a racist conversation. In Fresno, Sikhs and Oaxacans unite ...
Within Canada, anti-Sikh sentiment has included hostility, prejudice, or discrimination against Canadian Sikhs as a religious and ethnic group. This form of racism has affected Sikhs in the country since Canada's Sikh community was established in 1897. [1] [2]
As a physician specializing in addiction, Dr. Jasmeet Bains, the first Sikh American elected to the California assembly, was used to risky situations. Even so, Bains said she was shocked when four ...