Martyr for Religious Freedom

Posted on November 24, 2002 in Courage & Activism Pointers

I just finished writing an article about a most unusual martyr — a man who died not for his faith, but for the right of others to practice one with which he did not wholly concur. This man would have made a great American, but he was a Sikh who championed the rights of Hindus before the idea that the United States should exist even occurred to anyone.

Call it courage. Guru Tegh Baradur belongs in memory with the best that the human race has ever produced.

For my article at City of the Silent about Guru Tegh Baradur, click here.