By: Eastern Eye Staff
A SENIOR UK diplomat apologised on Tuesday (1) after he incorrectly identified a Sikh temple as a mosque in northern India. Simon McDonald, permanent under-secretary at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, had tweeted on Monday (30) referring to a picture of the “Golden Mosque” in Amritsar, northern India. After the error was made, the UK Sikh Federation gave McDonald 24 hours to apologise to the Sikh community for calling the Sikhs’ holiest shrine a “mosque”. However, McDonald realised his mistake and quickly apologised, writing: “I was wrong: I am sorry. I should of course have said the Golden Temple or,…
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