{"id":66064,"date":"2026-06-05T10:53:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/?p=66064"},"modified":"2026-06-05T10:53:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T05:23:36","slug":"mp-tan-dhesi-slams-uk-far-right-parties-for-scapegoating-sikhs-after-brutal-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/punjabenews.com\/English\/international\/mp-tan-dhesi-slams-uk-far-right-parties-for-scapegoating-sikhs-after-brutal-murder-case\/","title":{"rendered":"MP Tan Dhesi slams UK far-right parties for scapegoating Sikhs after brutal murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">UK Home Secretary rules out collective punishment as Parliament debates calls to restrict Sikh religious freedom<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Punjab E News:\u00a0<\/span> Britain\u2019s Sikh lawmakers took to the floor of the House of Commons to defend the Sikh community\u2019s religious freedoms after a horrific murder case prompted calls from far-right groups to restrict Sikhs from carrying a sacred religious article of faith \u2018Kirpan\u2019, following recent calls for restrictions. This was despite the Kirpan not actually being used to commit the crime &#8211; the lethal pesh-kabz Indo-Persian knife that is designed to penetrate body armour was the murder weapon.<br \/>\nThe debate followed the sentencing of Vickrum Digwa, 23, to life imprisonment after he was found guilty of stabbing to death 18-year-old student Henry Nowak.<br \/>\nLabour MP Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi was among the Sikh Parliamentarians who intervened during the session, directly criticising Reform UK and Restore Britain parties for what he described as \u201cscapegoating and throwing under the bus an entire community based on the actions of one violent murderer\u201d. Dhesi reminded the House about the hundreds of thousands of Sikh soldiers who fought bravely alongside British forces in both World Wars \u201cwearing their turban and their kirpan\u201d, and called on Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to reassure the Sikh community of its right to freely and peacefully practise its faith.<br \/>\n\u201cThere is simply no religious justification for these actions, a sentiment that is shared universally across the Sikh community,\u201d Dhesi said.<br \/>\nMahmood, addressing the Commons, acknowledged that some far-right voices had called for a ban on Sikhs carrying the kirpan, which she described as \u201cone of the five holy items in their faith\u201d. She referenced the Offensive Weapons Act of 2019, which she said had \u201cclarified and strengthened existing legal protections in relation to long kirpans\u201d, and made clear that the government had no intention of punishing the wider Sikh community for the crime of one individual.<br \/>\n\u201cWe do not believe in collective punishment in this country. Instead, we stand together against an act of pure evil. We condemn those who committed this heinous crime, not all those who share their faith or their ethnicity,\u201d the Home Secretary said.<br \/>\nMahmood also stressed that the murder must not be weaponised to set communities against one another, adding that the wider Sikh community \u201cmust not be condemned for an individual\u2019s heinous crime\u201d.<br \/>\nThe debate has drawn widespread attention across Sikhs in Britain and beyond, with religious and community leaders uniformly condemning both the killing and the subsequent attempts by certain political groups to frame the incident as grounds for restricting a centuries-old religious practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Home Secretary rules out collective punishment as Parliament debates calls to restrict Sikh religious freedom Punjab E News:\u00a0 Britain\u2019s Sikh lawmakers took to the floor of the House of Commons to defend the Sikh community\u2019s religious freedoms after a horrific murder case prompted calls from far-right groups to restrict Sikhs from carrying a sacred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-latest","category-punjab"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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