Fighting in peace

In faith: Not all the congregants at the Stockton temple take a deep interest in politics. Some simply come to pray. — LAT/TNS

THIS farming city in the Central Valley, California, has made headlines for its financial struggles and its annual asparagus festival. But thousands of miles away in India, it is a symbol of alleged terrorism.

To hear the Hindu-dominated media and government tell it, militants funded by the Sikh diaspora will stop at nothing to take over Punjab – the only Indian state where Sikhs are a majority – and turn it into a country of their own called Khalistan.