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Diplomat ‘sorry’ for temple gaffe

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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