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Sikh, Muslim women join hands to educate locals
WSN Network 

FREMONT: In an attempt to quell the false notion about themselves in the minds of many Americans, and to tell the world about who exactly are Sikhs, a few Sikh women joined their Muslim counterparts this Saturday at a Fremont community center to spread the message. 

Termed by the local media as “unusual joint forum”, the effort of the Sikh Coalition to join hands with the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Santa Clara to address discrimination was highly hailed by the community. 

It was afirst for local Sikhs and Muslims to have such a multifaith forum to address shared concerns. 

Many Sikhs have complained post 9/11 that they have faced abuse or attacks by some locals who mistook them for Arabs or terrorists.  

Harsimran Kaur, the director of the Sikh Coalition, said a lot of “covert discrimination” happens all the time.

11 November  2009
 

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