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The following web site has been set up in support of Sarika, the 14 year old girl who has been excluded from school in South Wales for wearing the Kara, religious bangle.

http://supportsarika.co.uk/

Please support Sarika by visiting the web site and signing the online petition.

Aberdare Girls School in Wales has excluded the pupil for refusing to remove her Kara as it says it has a strict policy on jewellery which only allows pupils to wear a watch or stud earnings.

The Kara is a fundamental part of the Sikh religion. It is not a piece of jewellery, but it is an article of faith and expression of religious belief.

Please circulate this link to friends via egroups, discussion forums etc.

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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is producing a flyer tomorrow for wider circulation

101 signatures, with comments on Day 1 (19 November)

Not bad, but let's see if this can be expanded

So far mainly Sikhs are signing

Email message at post 1 to friends, I'm sure a few will sign

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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is producing a flyer tomorrow for wider circulation

101 signatures, with comments on Day 1 (19 November)

Not bad, but let's see if this can be expanded

So far mainly Sikhs are signing

Email message at post 1 to friends, I'm sure a few will sign

Looks like we'll get another 100 or so on the second day - 20 November

This despite the widening of the campaign via the National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR)

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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is producing a flyer tomorrow for wider circulation

101 signatures, with comments on Day 1 (19 November)

Not bad, but let's see if this can be expanded

So far mainly Sikhs are signing

Email message at post 1 to friends, I'm sure a few will sign

With less than 1 hour to go looks like number of signatures and comments on Day 2 (20 November) will exceed Day 1 (19 November)

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Global support for suspended Sikh girl in Britain

Posted on : 2007-11-21 | Author : IANS

News Category : UK

London, Nov 21 - As the issue involving a Sikh girl's suspension from a Welsh school for wearing a kada, a symbol of Sikhism, appeared headed for the courts, hundreds of people from around the world backed the girl through a website set up to support her.

Sarika Watkins-Singh, 14, of mixed Welsh-Punjabi parentage, has been suspended three times from the Aberdare Girls School for wearing the kada. The school says that wearing it goes against its code, which only allows watches and stud-earrings.

Human rights organisation Liberty, which is directed by Shami Chakrabarti, has taken up Sarika's case. It is arguing that by excluding Sarika, the school's governing body has violated violating the Race Relations Act 1976, the Equality Act 2006 and the Human Rights Act 1998.

Angry, passionate messages against the school authorities have been left by visitors on the website www.supportsarika.co.uk. The website features press and video coverage of the case that has hit the headlines across Britain and elsewhere.

Anna Fairclough, Liberty's legal officer representing the Singhs, said: 'The governing body of the school has ignored established race and equality protections and shamefully turned a young woman into a pariah by isolating her.

'Legal precedents established 25 years ago make clear that she should be allowed to wear the kara without being intimidated by the school.'

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Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh

what about the people who are not alowed to wear the kirpan to school?

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh

Amritdhari Sikh children are and should be allowed to wear their Kirpans to school. If every case that has been referred to us, we have made sure this is the case. Please email deatils to info@sikjhfederation.com

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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is producing a flyer tomorrow for wider circulation

101 signatures, with comments on Day 1 (19 November)

Not bad, but let's see if this can be expanded

So far mainly Sikhs are signing

Email message at post 1 to friends, I'm sure a few will sign

109 signatures, with comments on Day 2 (20 November)

Let's try and get more than 100 each day until the end of the week

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PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION

The National Assembly Against Racism (NAAR) is producing a flyer tomorrow for wider circulation

101 signatures, with comments on Day 1 (19 November)

Not bad, but let's see if this can be expanded

So far mainly Sikhs are signing

Email message at post 1 to friends, I'm sure a few will sign

109 signatures, with comments on Day 2 (20 November)

Let's try and get more than 100 each day until the end of the week

Already over 150 signatures, with comments on Day 3 (21 November)

Almost 5 hours to go

Perhaps we'll reach 200 today and hit the 400 mark in 3 days

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