My brother lives in Seattle and belongs to the reform temple there. He says the Sikh community in Seattle also helped guard the general area near the Federation after the shooting and during the Sabbath.

I put this comment in your combox under the earlier thread about the shooting, but the comments had already mutated, so I don't know that anyone noticed. Please excuse my saying so again.

[Religio-Cultural note: Three kids in our family, raised in the Presbyterian Church in America; now one is Jewish, one is in the Salvation Army, and the youngest (me) is in the Catholic Church. Yes, family gatherings, rare as they are, are quite ... interesting.]
Naomi | 07.31.06 - 9:13 pm | #

I noticed.

Having been in a few alien places in my life, I have to say that every time I came back to the USA I loved it more.
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 07.31.06 - 9:27 pm | #

Ah Pavel, but have you been to Australia? lol
Sharon | 07.31.06 - 10:39 pm | #

It is a beautiful thing to behold.
JonathanR. | 08.01.06 - 11:46 am | #

Assuming you got the name right, I fail to see your point. Sikhs are not Muslim, they are a sub-sect of Hindus.
Paul | 08.01.06 - 1:53 pm | #

" Ah Pavel, but have you been to Australia? lol"

Yes, and it's lovely, friendly, and I have good friends there. But alas, it's not home.
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 08.01.06 - 2:08 pm | #

P.S. I must say, re Oz, that of all the places I've ever been, and I've been from Tashkent to North Cape, I've felt most at home in Australia, other than the States.
Pavel Chichikov | Homepage | 08.01.06 - 2:10 pm | #

My point was simply that they hadn't been mentioned, though other religions, notabley different Christian group and Muslims, had been mentioned in the story.

I thought that deserved some recognition. I don't get your not getting it.
Naomi | 08.01.06 - 2:34 pm | #

Paul, Sikhs would violently disagree. Sikhs have even less in common with Hinduism than Buddhism, and is nearly always examined as a distinct religion in itself.
Christopher Culver | Homepage | 08.01.06 - 9:16 pm | #