Source: The Arizona Republic

On September 8, 2002, The Arizona Republic reported that "the pain of losing a patriarch hasn't really left the Sodhi family. It's been a year since Sukhwinder Singh Sodhi's father, Balbir, was shot to death while planting flowers outside the family's convenience store near 80th Street and University Drive in Mesa. Sukhwinder, 29, wears a Diamondbacks baseball cap now instead of a turban. His dark beard is close-cropped. He says family life was starting to get better until Balbir's brother, a San Francisco cab driver, was shot...

Source: The Boston Globe

On September 8, 2002 The Boston Globe reported that "for the roughly 150 Sikhs... living at or near the ashram in Millis, [Massachusetts] life has changed since Sept. 11... Never before has a long beard and turban evoked the response it now does. Still, Sikhs in Millis, the largest community of its kind in New England, say that although they remain more vigilant, they have found the vast majority of people to be caring and curious about their religious practices... The turban represents several beliefs in Sikhism, according to...

Source: The Daytona Beach News-Journal

http://www.news-journalonline.com/2002/Sep/8/AREA2D.htm

On September 8, 2002 The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that "local [FL] Muslims and Sikhs said the last 12 months have been more unifying than destructive, a learning experience for customers at their stores, church members who invite them to speak, police officers who help keep them safe."

Source: Iowa City Press-Citizen

http://www.press-citizen.com/news/090802arabs.htm

On September 8, 2002 Iowa City Press-Citizen reported that "some members of the Muslim and Arab communities in Iowa City say the local response has been overwhelmingly positive. Despite the mostly positive reaction in Iowa City, the local community was not immune from some negative backlash. A Press-Citizen survey of Big Ten schools the week after Sept. 11 found threats or incidents of...

Source: The Boston Globe

On September 8, 2002 The Boston Globe reported that "a year after the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, [Muslim, Arab, and Sikh people]... who initially aroused suspicion among some residents and law enforcement officials now find themselves - some reluctantly - in the role of educators, all the while enduring long stares and even longer searches at airport security checkpoints. Islamic leaders said their role has become more crucial as a result of the terrorist attacks, especially in the predominantly white Boston [...

Source: Times-Herald Online

Source: The Associated Press

http://www.katu.com/news/story.asp?ID=49897

On September 3, 2002 The Associated Press reported that "a year later [in Portland, Oregon], people who once felt harassed are now more relaxed - in part because neighbors, colleagues, and often total strangers reached out to assure them. But they say the initial fear of bodily harm has turned into a dull uneasiness, causing them to worry about their future in the United States, and in some cases strive to...

Source: Copley News Service

On August 30, 2002 Copley News Service reported that Sheriff Lee Baca of Los Angeles "announced Thursday he will mark the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks with an interfaith prayer vigil designed to promote harmony between religious faiths...

���Representatives of Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Islam, Jewish, Hindu and other faiths will convene that day ... The 'Towers of Faith Prayer Vigil' event, which is open to the public, is seen as a way of celebrating the region's religious, ethnic and...

Source: The Hartford Courant

http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-sikhdmv0829.artaug29.story?coll=hc%2Dheadlines%2Dlocal

On August 29, 2002, The Hartford Courant reported that Connecticut "Department of Motor Vehicle workers will no longer ask for written documentation when motorists want to keep their turbans and other religious headgear on while their driver's license photos are taken... The department previously required a letter...

Source: The Associated Press

On August 28, 2002, The Associated Press reported that "a small wooden cross, an American flag and pink and yellow flowers stand in front of a suburban Phoenix gas station as testimony to a family and community's grief...    Americans were still reeling from the Sept. 11 attacks when shots rang out on this Mesa street corner four days later, killing station owner Balbir Singh Sodhi. As in the attacks, the sorrow over Sodhi's death remains strong nearly a year later... Authorities say Sodhi, an Indian immigrant, was shot...

Source: MSNBC

http://www.msnbc.com/news/799864.asp

On August 28, 2002 MSNBC reported on the "interrogations, body searches and suspicious stares... [and other] indignities endured by air travelers of Arab, Middle Eastern, South Asian and even South American backgrounds... �The airlines deny they have engaged in racial profiling since the Sept. 11 hijack attacks, in which Islamic extremists struck at the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington... �Still,...

Source: The Associated Press

On August 24, 2002 The Associated Press reported that Amarjit Singh Buttar, of Vernon, Connecticut and the chairman of the World Sikh Council-America Region, is protesting the "state motor vehicles' policy requiring motorists to remove turbans and other head coverings for driver's license photographs... [He said] Sikhs consider removing their turbans in public to be sacrilegious, and the requirement to do so for a driver's license is harassment... Buttar said he complained recently about the Department of Motor Vehicle policy...

Source: India Abroad

On August 23, 2002 India Abroad reported that "over 120 young Sikh professionals from the US and a few from Canada came together last month at Georgetown University in Washington DC, to discuss ways and means to confront the challenges the community faces in the aftermath of 9/11. Sikhs have, by virtue of their beards and turbans, become particular targets of hate crimes and racial profiling, particularly by airport security personnel, in the aftermath of last September's terrorist strikes."

Source: India Abroad

On August 9, 2002 India Abroad featured an article on a new book by Mahalingum Kolapen documenting Hindu temples across the United States. The book, co-published by the Hindu University of America and the Hindu Temple Council of North America, "contains 320 full color pages of photographs and line drawings of 28 temples in the U.S. and two in Canada, and includes not only temples from the Hindu tradition, but also representative samples of Jain, Sikh and Buddhist temples.... 'In publishing this book, we are celebrating the need for...

Source: The Arizona Republic

http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/0806sodhi0806.html

On August 6, 2002, The Arizona Republic featured an interview with Harjit Singh Sodhi, the cousin of the two Sikh brothers both murdered within the last year. Balbir Singh Sodhi, an Arizona gas station owner, "was gunned down in hate four days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks." Now his younger brother, Sukhpal, has been "hit by a stray bullet, possibly...