Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI will begin tracking crimes against Sikhs as part of its reporting system, the Associated Press reports. The decision follows recent attacks on followers of the Sikh religion, including the shooting deaths of six worshippers in Wisconsin in August. Followers of the religion have been pressing the FBI to include Sikhs…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Support for tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arab-Americans gained traction Thursday after more than 100 members of Congress sent a letter urging the FBI to take action, the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel reports. The letter urging the FBI to begin tracking hate crimes against those groups comes after the Department of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The son of a woman killed at a Sikh Temple in Wisconsin is urging the federal government to begin tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, the Associated Press reports. At a Senate hearing Wednesday, Harpreet Singh Saini, 18, said his mother deserves “the dignity of being a statistic.” The Department of Justice said…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Sikh Temple gunman who killed six people in a rampage outside Milwaukee died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, the Associated Press reports. Wade Michael Page was wounded by police when he turned the gun on himself, the FBI said Wednesday. Investigators still don’t know what motivated Wade Michael Page…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI would be required to collect information on hate crimes committed against Sikh Americans under an initiative between the agency and the U.S. Justice Department, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The effort was spearheaded in April by U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY), who lives in a sizeable Sikh district. More than…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Concerned about copycat attacks, the Department of Homeland Security is urging suburban mosques to be extra vigilant for suspicious people, the Daily Herald reports. The call comes in response to the weekend shootings at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin that killed six people and the arson of a mosque in Joplin, Mo….
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is trying to determine whether a gunman who killed killed six people at a Wisconsin Sikh temple was committing an act of domestic terrorism, the Associated Press reports. FBI Special Agent in Charge Teresa Carlton said Sunday evening it’s unclear what prompted the attack. This morning, the FBI identified the…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ten years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI efforts to strengthen the bonds with the Islamic American community haven’t always gone smoothly. The latest of example of that came Saturday in Seattle when the the FBI, Seattle Police and U.S. Attorney’s Office participated in an outreach workshop Saturday with Seattle’s…
