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Sikh Leaders Welcome One of Them in FBI Advertisement

Religion News Service

February 14, 2005

c. 2005 Religion News Service

By Adelle Banks

(RNS) Sikh leaders have applauded a recent advertisement campaign by the

FBI that seeks a more diverse corps of intelligence analysts.

"I have an international relations degree. I speak Panjabi fluently,"

said a Sikh man as he looked into the camera during a TV ad that first ran

during the Super Bowl on Feb. 6. "I analyze and decipher security threats. I

am an intelligence analyst in today's FBI. It's not the same world. It's not

the same FBI."

Tarunjit Singh, secretary-general of the World Sikh Council-American

Region, said in an interview that his Columbus, Ohio-based organization sent

a letter of thanks to the federal agency.

"We're very pleased to know of the FBI having put out this

advertisement, which features a Sikh American, especially since Sikhs have

been preferentially victimized since 9/11," said Singh, whose organization

represents more than two dozen Sikh places of worship across the country.

"This advertisement is an example of how Sikhs are increasingly being

woven into the fabric of America."

Megan Baroska, a public affairs specialist with the FBI, said the

advertising campaign has included television, radio and print outlets in the

Washington, D.C., area and will expand in March to major markets across the

country.

She said the investigatory agency has extended its outreach to Muslim,

Arab and Sikh communities and is working to foster partnerships with them.

"We want to build relationships and we also want to expand our personnel

to include representatives from all communities that the FBI serves,"

Baroska said in an interview.

Within the first week of the airing of the television ad, the agency

received more than 1,900 applications for the position of intelligence

analyst, she said. Baroska said statistics about how many Sikhs are currently employed by the FBI are not available.

"We do not track religious preferences," she said. "Even on the

application, it's not something that we ask."

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