11.   Sikhs consider hair as natural a part of the body as arms or legs, and Sikh men are not supposed to ever cut it.

12.   They fear the fate that befell a Sikh man in Arizona, who was killed solely because of his appearance, according to police there.

13.   Two Sikh men found guilty of killing Mrs. Gandhi were hanged.

14.   U.S. officials said they had no independent evidence of who killed the Sikh men.

15.   Many Sikh men use the surname Singh.

16.   Most of the victims were Sikh men, who with their distinctive beards and turbans are easy to pick out, while Sikh women dress like their Hindu counterparts.

17.   One Sikh man was shot dead in Phoenix, Arizona in an apparent racially motivated killing.

18.   Police have arrested a Sikh man suspected of sending e-mail death threats to Sonia Gandhi, the widow of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, a newspaper reported Friday.

19.   Sikh men are not subject to the new ruling because their style of turbans and beards makes them easily distinguishable from Muslims.

20.   Sikh men do not cut their hair and conceal it under turbans.