Threat To Bomb Yuba City Gurudawara And Darbar Sahib Amritsar!

[sahib singh]

Sikh temple a target

By Rob Young/Appeal-Democrat

The FBI is helping investigate a threat to destroy the Sikh temple on Tierra Buena Road, Sutter County Sheriff Jim Denney said Tuesday.

Copies of the written threat were received in the mail by the sheriff, the Yuba City Police Department and the Appeal-Democrat.

The threat came as the Sikh Temple prepares for its 27th annual festival and parade through Yuba City on Sunday, an event attended by thousands of Sikhs from around the state and country.

Karen Ernst, FBI spokeswoman in Sacramento, said law enforcement agencies don't consider the threat credible but are not totally dismissing it.

“We're going to be investigating if there are leads to be followed up on,” said Ernst. “The main thing is that people should feel like they can go about their business and participate without being too terribly worried.”

The letter, which purports to be from the “Muslim Union” and is signed by the “Taliban group,” also contains a threat to destroy the Golden Temple in India because “our leader in India punish by sikh ladi judge.”

The Golden Temple is the holiest Sikh site in India.

“We also know they have Sikh temple in Yuba City and they are going to be celebrate Sikh guru birthday the first day of November. We are going to destroy the sikh temple in Yuba City on that day,” the letter went on.

Didar Singh Bains, chairman of the annual Sikh event, said temple leaders were “kind of surprised” by the threat but aren't varying their plans, except for adding extra security.

Since Sept. 11, it's hard to tell which threats are credible, said Bains.

“We are alert,” he said.

Denney, who met with temple leaders, said the threat is being taken seriously because it deals with international terrorism.

“Oh, great,” said Abdul Kabir Krambo, spokesman for the Yuba City Islamic Center, about the letter. The center's mosque is near the Sikh Temple on Tierra Buena Road.

Krambo called the threat “just awful. As if we didn't have enough problems already.”

Relations between local Sikhs and Muslims are generally good, “depending on who you talk to,” said Krambo.

When an arson fire destroyed the Islamic Center's mosque in 1994, local Sikhs contributed money to help rebuild it, said Krambo.

“We hope this doesn't mean problems between Sikhs and Muslims,” he said.

Threats of violence are inconsistent with the “Sufi-oriented” Muslim religion practiced at the Yuba City mosque, he said.

Krambo said he would warn his Pakistani Muslim friends to be on the lookout for outsiders or “anyone talking crap.”

Bains, Krambo and law enforcement officials said they were unaware of any actual groups called the Muslim Union or Taliban Group or of a Taliban leader being sentenced in India.

Ed Vasquez, spokesman for the San Jose-based Sikh Communication Council, said local Sikhs and Muslims have had a good working relationship. The council was founded after 9-11 in response to violence against Sikhs whose beards and turbans caused them to be mistaken for Muslims.

Appeal-Democrat reporter Rob Young can be reached at 749-4710. You may e-mail him at ryoung@appeal-democrat.com.

[Laadli Fauj]

DAng, and I'm going there for the Nagar Kirtan on Sunday too. The scary part is that Nihung Baba Nihal Singh Harianvelanwale is supposed to be there too. Stupid terrorists--what'd we ever say to them? There so frikin fanatic about things. I bet if the judge was Muslim, they'd threaten to blow Mecca and then some local masjid with hella ppl there. What's the bravery in that?

I know there's tension between Sikhs and Muslims in England, but come on, we're cool over here (California).

[sunny_love_kirtan]

if they really want to do this they wont warn like this.

coz they never warned usa for 9/11

they are not so brave who will warn or inform us before doing things like this.

they are people who attack on back.

[S1ngh]

Probably some stupid 10 yr old local punk did this.. Non-muslim you may say...

[Bored]

who knows.......

[Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA]

Im still going nothing will stop me !!!!!!

[Laadli Fauj]

Yeah, I'm still going too (if I finsh that history project)--we got some gatka to do

[Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA]

I will be in that Sadh Sangat on Sunday even if I heard it ticking as I walk up.

Dhan teri Sikhi

Like us Sikhs are scared of death in California. Funny how the ego of some punk can think they can even try to discourage Sikhs from populating Yuba City. This weekend Yuba City will profit over 9 million dollars because of this festival, and some <banned word filter activated> is trying to lie about a firecracker he has in his dresser drawers at home :D When people say taliban you already know they are biased, because not only do they class you as a muslim but they class you as a class of muslims

What color turban are we wearing on Sunday is there a specific color? (like saffron was on Vaisakhi but a bunch of people didnt wear it anyway, alot did though which was kewl to see)

[Pamma Khalsa]

I don't think they'd wanna start trouble with us sikhs..

they already have enough on their hands...

and if they do..

they won't survive.

[Guest PRITAM SINGH KHALSA]

How many from this forum are also going to Yuba City Nagar Kirtan this Sunday????