Sikhs Dept: In British Columbia, there were pictures of long dead “martyrs” to the Punjabi separatist cause on parade, politicians warned away and threats made online. In the country’s other Sikh centre, Brampton, Ont., armed violence broke out at two temples, where peace is meant to prevail. Setbacks and skirmishes have long typified the newcomer’s journey into Canada’s mainstream; Orangemen parades for years pitted Protestants against Catholics in Toronto, with bloody results, and many an immigrant group since has taken homeland grievances to the street. T he troubling signs in Canada’s Sikh community have been hard to miss. Amid the far flung fury, Canada’s 300,000 Sikhs have had little choice but to watch, weigh in and move on with daily life, despite the distinctly uncomfortable feeling of being dragged backward into reductive stereotypes: crazed militant, keeper of the old country grudge. As
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