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Wisconsin gurdwara attack: Sikh motorcyclists start ride against hate crimes
To mark the eleventh anniversary of the 2012 assault on a gurdwara in Wisconsin, a Gurdeep Singh Saggu, 37, together with Motorbike Membership USA, have began 2,700 miles (4,400 km) journey throughout the USA to boost consciousness in regards to the tradition and religion.
The capturing had left seven folks from the Sikh group useless.
Saggu deliberate the week-long journey to Oak Creek Gurdwara, the Los Angeles Occasions reported. The report mentioned that the journey would finish on August 5 in Oak Creek and can go by way of states like Arizona the place a Sikh man was shot useless within the spate of hate crime incidents that occurred within the aftermath of the 9/11 assault.
Saggu works as a supervisor in a transport firm and confronted racial discrimination when a co-worker accused him of being a terrorist as a result of his turban and beard, as per The Los Angeles Occasions report.
His son Akaaldeep, 10, additionally confronted bullying at college due to his turban. Akaaldeep heard an FBI agent recount how the gurdwara capturing led to the loss of life of harmless folks on the Stockton Gurdwara prayer corridor and wished to go away.
It was then that Saggu determined to start out the “journey”, The Los Angeles Occasions studies.
On August 5, 2012, in a mass capturing at a gurdwara in Oak Creek in Wisconsin, Wade Michael Web page, 40, a military veteran, shot a number of folks, killing six. A seventh individual, who was left partially paralysed, died in 2020. After being shot by the police, Web page killed himself on the spot. The incident sparked outrage each within the US and India, with the then First Girl Michelle Obama visiting the gurdwara every week later to precise the administration’s assist to the group. The seventh individual, who was injured within the capturing, died in 2020.