kirpan

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Demanding that Gurmail Singh removes his kirpan is akin to demanding a Christian priest to remove his or her crucifix.

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  • After all, a kirpan was a sidearm, and his religion required him to carry that. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Four-Day Planet, by H. Beam Piper
  • The bill would require law enforcement personnel to receive training about the kirpan, the symbolic sword that members of the Sikh faith carry. —  The Latest on Air America
  • And although the weapon was quickly discovered to be a kirpan,
  • The lawsuit, filed in Houston federal district court on Tuesday, states that the IRS fired Kawaljeet Kaur Tagore in July 2006 because she refused to take off her kirpan, an article of faith that Sikhs are required to wear at all times. —  Clipmarks | Live Clips
  • She is a religious Sikh who wears a knife known as a "kirpan." —  pfblogs.org: The Ad-Free Personal Finance Blogs Aggregator
 

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