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Sikh woman sues America’s IRS for right to wear kirpan

Houstan: An Indian-American Sikh woman has sued the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for allegedly violating her religious freedom by prohibiting her from wearing kirpan to her job as a revenue agent. Kawaljeet Kaur Tagore, who worked as a revenue agent at the Mickey Leland Federal Building in downtown ....Read more

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KirpanBy: Mac | Tuesday , 13 Jan '09 1:05:30 AM Reply | Forward Did she wear the kirpan to her initial job interview?

Religious DiscriminationBy: Jas | Saturday , 10 Jan '09 11:43:34 AM Reply | Forward I was born into Sikhism but because of people like tihis woman I no longer feel to belong to my religion anymore. People like her have reduced a very beautiful and enlightened philosopy of Guru Nanak to mere long hair and other symbols. Unfortunately these ignorant and simplistic people are deemed as true representive of Sikhism when they start court cases for useless and meaningless reasons. These dimwit religious people don't realize that thier actions results in more discrimination against them and contempt against their religion even if they win the legal chellenge. Sikhs as well as other Indians need to learn that religion should be very private matter and should not be brought into public domain. I personally have grown to think that all religions teach intolerance and hate and need to be weakened and eventually eliminated from human mind. Religion brought orders to older societies but it is causing only divisions and wars in modern times..

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