![]() Balbir Singh Sodhi was killed by a man who saw him as a terrorist and someone who did not belong in the U.S. Her Sikh uncle was murdered in a hate crime on September 15, 2001. Valarie’s greatest test came when she was twenty years old. She starts to practice love in the face of hate. She returns to school and tries to see her classmates who had been cruel to her with eyes of wonder. She decides she will work hard to be a warrior one day too. Valarie looks up at her grandfather and his tall turban. “Do not abandon your post,” Papa Ji says. She put on a turban, mounted a horse, and led the men back into battle. A young woman named Mai Bhago told them not to be afraid. In 1705, the story goes, forty soldiers ran away from the battlefield where they were supposed to fight to defend people from an invading army. Papa Ji tells her the story of Mai Bhago, the first Sikh woman warrior. She is just a little girl with two long braids. ![]() “You must choose to love them anyway, and fight for them when they are in harm’s way. ![]() “You must wonder about others, even when they refuse to wonder about you,” says Papa Ji. Valarie’s family is Sikh, but her classmates did not know anything about her faith. Their long hair and turbans are meant to stand out in a crowd, so that you can come to them for help. ![]() ![]() Sikhs keep their hair long- many wrap their long hair in turbans-to show their commitment to love and justice. The Sikh faith is now the fifth-largest organized religion in the world. Guru Nanak’s followers were called “ Sikhs,” students of truth. ![]()
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