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United Sikhs urges Obama to stop
hate crimes
WSN Bureau
NEW YORK:
Stepping up the campaign of Sikh participation in US politics,
leading Sikh organization, United Sikhs while congratulating
president-elect Barack Obama has raised high hopes from his
administration to stop hate crimes against Sikhs in the country.
Espousing the
principle of Sarbat da Bhalla, the body has sought change in the
area of rights protection and has sought the implementation of the
UN Millennium Development Goals.
Pledging support
to him, the president of the United Sikhs, Kuldip Singh in a letter
to Mr. Obama has that, “United Sikhs pledges to be part of the
movement of social change, community empowerment, and protection of
rights.”
Proposing an
agenda for a better world, the letter says, “We must end genocide,
mass murder, enforced disappearances, and the use of torture, stop
secret and unlawful detentions, and the death penalty.”
Highlighting
cases of racial profiling and fear psychosis of Sikh Americans,
United States has categorically said that “Sikhs have suffered
attacks on their right to wear their articles of faith at airports,
during flights, in schools, at the workplace and in other public
places. We turn to you to reverse this tide by turning the clocks
back on fear through positive legislation and policies both in the
USA and through your foreign policy.”
12 November
2008
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