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Posted in News by Donna | Tagged 7 DEAD, Gurdwara, Gurudwara Shooting, Hate crime, India, Milwaukee, Muslim, Oak Creek, Oak Creek Wisconsin, Organizations, Religion and Spirituality, shooting, Sikh, Sikh Temple, Sikhism, SWAT, Temple, Wisconsin | 19 Comments

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1. on August 5, 2012 at 2:10 pm | Reply spellbound84

   They are a spiritual group from India not Muslims MSM is not telling us that.

   Had some hate crime up there recently.

   Groups call for ‘hate crime’ investigation into graffiti at Sikh gurdwara
   By Cortney Casey
   C & G Staff Writer

   Organizations representing Sikhs and Muslims are asking authorities to launch a “hate crime” investigation into graffiti found scrawled on a Sikh gurdwara on Sterling Heights’ southwest side.

   Both the Washington, D.C.-based Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund and Michigan Chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, based in Southfield, are pushing for an in-depth inquiry in light of the graffiti’s content.

   Photos posted on SALDEF’s website of the vandalism — which reportedly occurred between the evening of Feb. 5 and morning of Feb. 6 — show the word “Mohmed,” apparently a misspelled reference to the Islamic prophet, scrawled in black paint on the gurdwara’s white exterior wall.

   https://www.candgnews.com/news/groups-call-%E2%80%98hate-crime%E2%80%99-investigation-graffiti-sikh-gurdwara

   
   
   • on August 5, 2012 at 2:37 pm | Reply muse1876

     They should call the FBI to investigate. Just like C.A.I.R. does.

     
     
2. on August 5, 2012 at 2:14 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Sunday Gurdwara

   Sunday Gurdwara service starts at around 10am with Japji Sahib followed by Kirtan Darbar with Bhai Surinder Singh (Harmonium and vocal), Bhai Kuldeep Singh (Harmonium and vocal), and Bhai Muninder Singh (on Tabla). Apart of excellent Kirtan for over an hour jatha likes play atleast one or two shabads in classical music, especially on sangrand (start of sikh calendar month). All sangat take part in kirtan as a pre-printed copy of the Shabad being recited is distributed which has the Shabad in Gurmukhi script its English and Punjabi translation.

   http://www.gurunanakdwara.org/zap_site/docs/zaps-mr-tab1-142.htm?Services-at-our-Gurdwara

   
   
   • on August 5, 2012 at 2:40 pm | Reply muse1876

     I know nothing of their religion, but as long as they assimilate to America they are fine.

     
     
3. on August 5, 2012 at 2:17 pm | Reply spellbound84

   “Sikhism is such a peaceful religion. We have suffered for generations, in India and even here.”

   “We’re all the same. Everybody has the same blood,” said temple member Jaswinder Schandock.

   Groups of temple members were gathered, on cell phones, conferring in small groups and watching from afar.

   Oak Creek police were not giving out any information at this point.

   Numerous police agencies had responded to scene to assist Oak Creek, including the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

   At least two dozen ambulances responded, including from Oak Creek, Caledonia, North Shore Fire, Greenfield and West Allis. Those ambulances had moved to the temple about 12:40 p.m.

   As of about 12:30 p.m., the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner’s Office said it had not been called to the scene.

   http://www.jsonline.com/news/crime/reports-of-people-shot-at-sikh-temple-in-oak-creek-qc6cgc0-165059506.html

   
   
   • on August 5, 2012 at 2:46 pm | Reply muse1876

     Just in case anyone whats to know what this religion teaches here is a link.

     http://www.allaboutsikhs.com

     
     
4. on August 5, 2012 at 2:42 pm | Reply spellbound84

   According to recent information broadcast over police radio, a witness to the shooting told law enforcement the shooter was a white male, with a heavy build, bald head and wearing a sleeveless T-shirt. He was last seen with two handguns.

   Flight for Life helicopters have arrived on the scene. A Wauwatosa fire truck and numerous squad cars also are on on the scene. The FBI also has been called in.

   http://oakcreek.patch.com/articles/several-people-reported-shot-at-sikh-temple

   
   
5. on August 5, 2012 at 2:46 pm | Reply spellbound84

   Amardeep Kaleka, a member of the temple whose mother and father were inside at the time of the shooting, told WISN that there were multiple shooters and it was a “well-coordinated” attack.

   “Post-9/11, a lot of Sikhs were attacked because we wear turbans and we have long beards and Afghanis look like us, and we look like Afghanis,” he said. “Post-9/11, multiple were murdered. Murdered in New York, murdered in Phoenix, and there have been plenty of documentary films on that. The threat is always there. We know that threat, but we’re a very peaceful community… Today was very, very much out of the blue.”

   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/05/wisconsin-shooting-sikh-temple_n_1744256.html#10_listen-radio-station-reporting-from-the-temple

   
   
6. on August 5, 2012 at 2:47 pm | Reply muse1876

   We need to keep all of them in our prayers.

   
   
7. on August 5, 2012 at 2:50 pm | Reply spellbound84

   MSM is not reporting this properly. as usual.

   Great link, trying to get a video on it.

   
   
8. on August 5, 2012 at 2:53 pm | Reply spellbound84

   This is a report of the religion Happened last year in Queens

   
   
   • on August 5, 2012 at 3:05 pm | Reply muse1876

     I never heard of this either. Yet we hear of every broken window of a mosque.

     
     
9. on August 5, 2012 at 2:54 pm | Reply spellbound84

   5th largest World Religion, do they tell us this?

   
   
10. on August 5, 2012 at 8:47 pm | Reply spellbound84

    Oak Creek Temple Shooting Timeline
    http://livewire.wisn.com/Event/Oak_Creek_Temple_Shooting#ixzz22ihLTPsK

    
    
    • on August 6, 2012 at 12:38 pm | Reply muse1876

      Excellent coverage!

      
      
11. on August 6, 2012 at 1:02 pm | Reply spellbound84

    Wade Michael Page Identified as Wisconsin Temple Shooter

    Wade Michael Page Left the Army With a Less Than Honorable Discharge

    Page, 40, served in the Army from April 1992 through October 1998. He was separated from the Army with a less than honorable discharge and had been demoted from sergeant to specialist during his service.

    While in the Army Wade served as a sergeant, and later as a specialist based in Ft. Bliss in Texas and at Ft. Bragg in North Carolina. Wade’s job was as a Hawk missile system repairman, and he then became a psychological operations specialist, defense official confirmed.

    http://gma.yahoo.com/sikh-temple-shooter-identified-army-vet-wade-michael-121406665–abc-news-topstories.html

    
    
12. on August 6, 2012 at 1:03 pm | Reply spellbound84

    A fund has been established for the victims and their families:

    Victims Memorial Fund
    c/o Sikh Temple
    7512 S. Howell Ave.
    Oak Creek, WI 53154

    http://livewire.wisn.com/Event/Oak_Creek_Temple_Shooting#ixzz22ihLTPsK

    
    
13. on August 7, 2012 at 12:55 pm | Reply muse1876

    Now the MSM will be all over this. This man was white supremists. Lets seee how the MSM spins this. I still don’t know why this is called a terrorists act. Ft. Hood wasn’t.

    
    
14. on August 8, 2012 at 4:13 pm | Reply spellbound84

    Wisconsin temple shooter killed himself, FBI says

    Wade Michael Page, who police say fatally shot six people in a Sikh temple in Wisconsin on Sunday, died that day from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head after he was shot in the stomach by a responding officer, Teresa Carlson, the special agent in charge for the FBI in Milwaukee, said Wednesday.

    Police previously said that he was shot to death by an officer responding to the attack in Oak Creek.

    Page, a 40-year-old Army veteran who neighbors say played in a so-called hate-rock band, was the lone gunman in the rampage at the temple, police said.

    http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/08/wisconsin-temple-shooter-killed-himself-fbi-says/

    
    

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