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Sikhs say attacks on community are ‘collateral damage’ of 9/11

Harjit Jeji Shergill would not go so far as to say there was an inevitability to the murder of six Sikh worshipers at his local temple, but after years of people venomously calling him “Bin Laden” he feared it might come to this somewhere in America. As Oak Creek’s Sikh…

Sikh temple president died trying to ward off gunman

OAK CREEK, Wisconsin — When a gunman burst into the Sikh temple he’d devoted his life to building in this small Wisconsin town, Sadwant Singh Kaleka grabbed the only weapon at hand, a blunt ceremonial knife. The confrontation didn’t last long. The gunman — identified by police as 40-year-old army…

WATCH LIVE: Details on Wisconsin Sikh temple shooting

Authorities held a press conference on Monday to discuss the Sikh temple shooting in Oak Creek, Wisconsin. The shooter, reportedly 40-year-old Army veteran Wade Michael Page, was shot dead by police after he shot six and held many others hostage in a temple on Sunday. Page reportedly served from April…