Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity

Directed by Kevin B. Lee · Starring Gurcharan Singh, Rajinder Singh Khalsa, Amardeep Singh, Amric Singh Rathour · 2004

Contrasting the quiet daily ritual of tying the turban with real attacks on Sikh Americans, this documentary examines the discrimination faced by a community over a core symbol of its faith.

An eye-opening look at the meaning of the Sikh turban and the violence its wearers face in America.

DASTAAR: DEFENDING SIKH IDENTITY presents the struggle of the Sikh American community against discrimination and violence caused by ignorance of an essential symbol of the Sikh faith -- the dastaar , or turban. The docum

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