'Your head is slippery'

Lutheran, The, Oct 2004

Your head is slippery," Giani Swaran Singh (above, left), a Sikh from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, tells Sandi DuBowski of New York as he wraps him in a turban.

DuBowski, who practices Judaism and is director of the documentary Trembling Before G-d, exclaims: "You need hair for this?"

DuBowski and members of nine other religions donned robes and turbans (or head coverings) for a youth panel at the Parliament of the World's Religions in Barcelona, Spain, in July. Participants determined the religion of each panelist by asking "yes" or "no" questions.

"We're going to let the audience judge what level of prejudice they have," said panel organizer Rajinderjit K. Singh, a Sikh from New York. "This is a test for themselves."

Singh created the game after she was misidentified at an airport following Sept. 11.

Singh asked DuBowski to be on the panel while seated next to him on a flight from New York. Other panelists represented Roman Catholic Christianity, Brahma Kumari, Hinduism, Baha'i, Unitarian Universalism, Jainism, Protestant Christianity, Sikhism and Islam.