Harmeet Dhillon Defends Prayer at RNC Against Mockery

Faith Facts

• Harmeet Dhillon prayed to a Sikh deity at the 2024 Republican National Convention.
• Critics publicly mocked her for incorporating her faith into the event.
• Dhillon strongly defended her right to pray according to her own beliefs.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon recently resigned from the U.S. Department of Justice.

Earlier this week, she responded to critics who mocked her prayer to a Sikh deity during the Republican National Convention.

Dhillon called those who attacked her faith “trash,” rejecting what she described as an assault on religious liberty.

“I prayed to my God at the RNC, and some people thought that was worth attacking,” Dhillon stated.

“Those who would denigrate another person’s sincere prayer are trash,” she added.

My husband watched me pray in our Sikh faith at the RNC — and one of our last text messages before he died a couple of weeks later was telling me he was so proud of me. He was supposed to be there, but he was also dying from two serious illnesses, and he could not make it at the last minute. Our medical staff at home took care of him while he watched me pray in our faith tradition -/ just as we did at home daily over each meal. All you trash who have denigrated my prayer to the ONE GOD many faiths believe in, deeply hurt me for the last two years, but I could not comment back because I was part of a campaign and then confirmation -/ administration. It’s over. I won’t be silent any longer. Go read the First Amendment and my extensive record on behalf of ALL people of faith in America. For 34 years. And then let’s measure our respective records on religious liberty. I welcome all comers who think they can prove they did more than I did for ALL people of faith in this country. There are none. I intend to keep fighting for ALL people of faith in America for the rest of my life. But I won’t hide my own faith for one second. It’s protected by our Constitution.

— Harmeet K. Dhillon (@HarmeetKDhillon) November 8, 2026

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