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Sikh leaders and religious groups from Punjab have asked the French government to review a proposed law banning the wearing of turbans and other types of headgear in public institutions and workplaces.
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The largest gurdwara in Britain outside London is to be built in Glasgow, Scotland, at a cost of 10 million pounds.
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Sikh women seem to be no closer to performing religious rituals in gurdwaras, to go by depositions made before the body that controls the shrines across the country.
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Sharp differences seem to have cropped up between priests who head the five temporal seats of Sikhs over a new calendar for the community.
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A gurdwara said to be the biggest outside India has opened in Southall, near London. The gurdwara is politically significant. The elections to its management committee usually point to the dominant mood among Sikhs in Britain.
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Afghanistan’s Hindus and Sikhs, the country’s only significant non-Muslim minorities, say they continue to face prejudice and problems educating their children over a year after the collapse of the Islamic fundamentalist Taleban regime.
Shahabuddin Tarakhel is a radio and television journalist in Kabul.
This article was originally published by the IWPR (Institute for War Peace Reporting), London, in the Afghan Recovery Report (ARR No. 45, 24 January 2003). The Institute for War & Peace Reporting strengthens local journalism in areas of conflict. Religioscope has been allowed by the IWPR to repost its articles.
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