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United Sikhs hails Obama, urges for cooperation
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WASHINGTON: Sikh rights organisation United Sikhs has hailed President Barack Obama's visionary inauguration speech and said the new president stood "as a beacon of the beauty of this great nation".

"Your inauguration as the nation’s first African American president truly marks a momentous, historic event, and has given hope to all that the opportunity is still alive. As you undertake the terrific challenges facing our great nation today, United Sikhs, an international UN affiliated, civil rights and humanitarian relief organization, working for millions of Sikhs and other minorities globally, urges you to consider the aspirations of all minorities. We request you to work with and involve the various communities which make this nation the standard bearer in the world," the United Sikhs said in a release issues moments after the 44th president was sworn in.

Since September 11, 2001, Sikhs have faced brutal hate crimes and discrimination.

The half a million Sikhs residing in the United States saw the earnest goodness of this nation on grand display when a member of the minority community was granted the opportunity to govern.

It also urged the President "to look into the critical issue of the Sikhs in France."

France has passed a law that doesn’t allow Sikh children to wear their turban (dastaar) in schools, as reported in the US State Department Report in 2007. The Sikhs have challenged France in the United Nations to allow one the fundamental right of exercising one’s religion.

21 January 2009
 

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