![]() ![]() Kaur talks in the book about how she has worked to understand and love a police officer who badly and deliberately injured her arm in a protest, and a cousin who threatened her with a gun. You must wonder about them even when they refuse to wonder about you.” The battle is hardest because it is not just waged against one’s enemies, but for them. ![]() “Love is dangerous business…If you see no stranger, then you must love people, even when they do not love you. Kaur writes that her maternal grandfather, Papa Ji, explained the Sikh tradition of warrior love. But it’s also, Kaur says, about loving one’s enemies. ![]() Revolutionary love is about loving others. She also recounts how the Sikhs included the shooter, who killed himself, in their service for the dead. But Kaur tells the story of the victims and their families, who she knows personally, and of their grief and faith. Most people have not even heard of the Oak Creek shooting “It disappeared from the nation’s conscience almost as soon as it occurred,” Kaur writes. The hope that education might be enough ended for Kaur in 2012, when a shooter killed six people at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin. ![]()
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