Lehigh Professor Emerges as Sikh Spokesman
In wake of Wisconsin temple shootings, Lehigh associate English professor Amardeep Singh writes column for New York Times and is interviewed on NPR.
As its community still reels three days after seven worshippers at a Wisconsin temple were shot and killed by a white supremacist, one of the voices that has emerged as a spokesman for Sikhs in America is a Lehigh University professor. Amardeep Singh related his experience as a “Sikh-American” in a column that appeared in The New York Times on Monday. On Tuesday, an interview with the associate English professor was aired on “All Things Considered,” a National Public Radio program. In the column and in the interview, Singh acknowledged the “visceral reaction” some Americans have to seeing a bearded man in a turban, the traditional look of a Sikh man, a look also adopted by some Muslim clerics and, most importantly, Osama bin Laden – the …
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