--- title: White House Holds Meeting With Muslims And Sikhs description: The meetings were called after a spike in anti-Islamic incidents canonical: https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-15T03:43:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:56:49.581Z article:section: Politics og:title: White House Holds Meeting With Muslims And Sikhs og:description: The meetings were called after a spike in anti-Islamic incidents og:url: https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: White House Holds Meeting With Muslims And Sikhs twitter:description: The meetings were called after a spike in anti-Islamic incidents twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # White House Holds Meeting With Muslims and Sikhs ## Video: TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting [Watch (HLS stream): TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PHu3n3vE.m3u8) (1:29)  _Published 2015-12-02. TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting_ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 15, 2015 3:43 AM UTC by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Dec 15, 2015 3:43 AM UTC President Obama’s top advisers held a series of meetings Monday with Muslim and Sikh religious leaders to discuss the fallout their communities are facing in the wake of the deadly San Bernardino shootings. Senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, Domestic Policy Council director Cecilia Munoz, and Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes took part in the White House sit-downs — a dozen days after a radicalized Muslim couple fatally shot 14 people and wounded 21 more in California. The Chicago-born Syed Farood and his wife Tashfeen Malik, a Pakistani national raised in Saudi Arabia, were killed in a gun battle with the police… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/san-bernardino-shooting/white-house-holds-meeting-muslims-sikhs-n479896?cid=par-time%5F20151215) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/"},"headline":"White House Holds Meeting With Muslims and Sikhs","datePublished":"2015-12-15T03:43:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-08-04T07:56:49.581Z","description":"The meetings were called after a spike in anti-Islamic incidents","url":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/","keywords":["White House"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/white-house/","name":"White House"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/","name":"White House Holds Meeting With Muslims and Sikhs"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting","description":"TIME Raw: Obama on San Bernardino Shooting","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/PHu3n3vE/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-12-02T22:09:33.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/PHu3n3vE.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/","duration":"PT1M29S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4148847/white-house-meeting-muslims-sikhs/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```