[nickcarraway]

He can’t cover his head?

[RexBeach]

Well, I wish him much Sikhcess.

[smokingfrog]

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[nickcarraway]

He’s worried he’d be considered a Muslim for visiting a Sikh temple? Isn’t the opposite more likely?

[WayneS]

Interesting...

I think I read somewhere that a muslim’s head will explode if he enters a Hindu temple...

;-)

[Red Badger]

Sikh and ye shall find....

[tet68]

You'd think Obama could just knot the corners of a hankerchief...

A kinda doo rag.

[ColdOne]

I am going to go out on a limb here...but is Sikh religion not Muslim friendly?

[OKSooner]

So, St. John's University had to cover up references to Jesus when Obama spoke there, but he can't cover his head in deference to someone else when he's a guest in their country?

Hmmmm....

[Oztrich Boy]

"Skip Sikh Shrine"

Say that 5 times fast.

[greatplains]

Good grief, he could just put on a hat. I’m sure one of Michelle’s designers could make up one big enough to fit his head. That’s a lame excuse even for him.

[Hunton Peck]

...and the sixth sick sheik’s sixth sheep’s Sikh.

[Starstruck]

This calls for a picture of Obama in his acorn cap.

[Paved Paradise]

This is telling, indeed. Doesn’t want to enter b/c if he wears Christian head covering, he will be dissing his brother Muslims. If he wears a Muslim head covering, he will be be acknowledging what many of us already know.

As far as I’m concerned, this should really clinch it for those who were otherwise still not convinced that Obama is Muslim.

[Political Junkie Too]

“To come to golden temple he needs to cover his head,” said Dalmegh Singh, secretary of the committee that runs the temple. “That is our tradition. It is their problem to cover the head with a Christian hat or a Muslim cap.”

Obama should compromise: wear a yarmulke. ;-)

-PJ

[WKUHilltopper]

Better get in all your free world trips in before you’re fired.

[PGR88]

I visited there. Obama can borrow a communal bandana from a box outside the temple. No problem.

[MortMan]

Hell - a ball cap from the USS George Bush or some such would have worked...

[USMCPOP]

Hat? No problem.

[kenavi]

A Sikh splinter group occupied the Golden Temple in 1984, and Indira Gandhi ordered an attack to remove them on a Sikh holiday when many innocent pilgrims were visiting, many of them were hurt or killed in the cross-fire.

Two Sikh bodyguards later assassinated Mrs. Gandhi.

I wonder whether India's central government, which I believe is led by a Hindu nationalistic party, have objected to President Obama visiting there, in which case the stated problem of head covering is just a smoke screen.