Sikhs, not Sheiks
Korean
aid workers: An article in Saturday’s California section about leaders
from different faiths coming together to urge the release of 19 South
Korean Christian aid workers being held in Afghanistan by Taliban
insurgents misquoted Father Alexei Smith of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Los Angeles as using the word "Sheiks" instead of
"Sikhs." Smith’s quote should have read: "Perhaps what we do best –
we, defined as Christians, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs, Bahais, Buddhists and
Hindus collectively — is to live harmoniously together, each accepting
and enriching the other, each working for the common good. . . ." Link
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