ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how Amandeep Sidhu converted his concern into action, and more generally, how the efforts of some individual motivated Sikhs coalesced and developed into a Sikh civil rights organization that continues to tackle Sikh civil rights concerns to date. In the wake of 9/11, Sikhs who were arrested for wearing their kirpans, targeted by slurs of 'Osama bin Laden', 'raghead', 'towelhead', 'diaperhead', and worse, or even firebombed, shot and killed, solely because of their religious appearance. A rare few Sikh Americans may even have had lawyers in their families who inspired them to seek a career steeped in words and laws rather than medicine, or mathematics, or engineering or business all more common vocations than the law for Sikh immigrants. Communities in which Sikhs have segregated themselves, and refused to participate in daily civic activities, tend to be those communities in which nameless, faceless cowards have felt free to attack families.
