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  1. Thanks Canada. Now the US can finally answer those gun control supporters everytime a mass shooting happens in the US. Canada has strict gun control laws i bet... Like the NRA says banning guns is only going to stop the good guys from having any not the gangsters.
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  2. The Lower Mainland gang violence disproportionately involves (Canadian-born) Punjabis. Most of the gangland killings involve Punjabis killing other Punjabis. The police considers them mostly low-level guys who can’t control themselves, unlike the sophisticated Asian and Biker gangs that work silently but control most of the networks. It’s saddening to see another dead young brown kid every second week. It has nothing to do with bullying or racism, or other any economic reasons. They come from our typical well-off Punjabi households with immigrant parents who have worked hard to realize the western dream, but not worked hard on giving some authentic life values to the kids. Only value is money, not even education. Compared to other diaspora commounitues in the US and UK, Lower Mainland/BC kids are under-achievers academically. If you’ve been through the post-secondary education system here, it’s clear that our community’s kids lag far behind. The community simply doesn’t value or push their kids enough. Instead, the kids are spoiled growing up with an all-expense-paid upbringing with no clear motivation to accomplish anything in life, except for “making money”. In a nuthshell, we are so well off on the West Coast here in BC that we simply don’t know what to do with it. The downfall of the Sikh Raj analogy shows some parallels.
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  3. Afghan Hindus, Sikhs in Limbo While Stuck in India By Roshan Noorzai June 10, 2021 07:11 PM https://www.voanews.com/extremism-watch/afghan-hindus-sikhs-limbo-while-stuck-india WASHINGTON - Afghan Hindus and Sikhs who moved to India because of deteriorating security in their country are struggling with poor living conditions, and some families have even returned to Afghanistan. “We are in a situation that we have no option,” said Singh, a 24-year-old Sikh who lost his father, nephew and sister-in-law in a March 2020 attack on a Sikh temple in Kabul’s Shor Bazaar area that killed 25 people. “We cannot go to Afghanistan, and we are stuck in India. We have not been relocated to the U.S. or Canada as we were promised.” In the aftermath of the attack, which was claimed by the Islamic State, about 200 Hindu and Sikh families left for India — some on special visas — in hopes of being relocated to a third country. As reported by The Associated Press, members of the Afghan Sikh and Hindu diaspora — most of them based in Canada and Europe — agreed in August to sponsor the exodus to India, which is home to large Hindu and Sikh communities. Afghan security personnel stand guard near the site of an attack to a Sikh temple in Kabul on March 25, 2020. Several Canadian legislators also called for a program to grant Afghan Sikhs and Hindus special refugee status, but VOA could not verify whether any were successfully transferred to North America as a result. Last month about 40 Hindu and Sikh families returned to Afghanistan after staying in India for some nine months. Singh, who asked that his full name not be used, said that living in India was hard because “one cannot find a job, and we have no financial support.” Sarmeet Singh, 25, an Afghan Sikh who has been living in India since his father was assassinated in Herat, Afghanistan, two years ago, said the COVID-19 lockdown has made finding work “even more difficult.” Sarmeet, who has a 4-year-old daughter, said if circumstances don’t change, he’ll be forced to return despite the risk of violence. “If there are no suicide attacks and targeted killings, I and other Sikhs would return to our home country,” Sarmeet told VOA. An Afghan Sikh boy mourns the victims who were killed during an attack at Sikh religious complex during a funeral in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2020. ‘Sign of hope’ Once home to thriving Sikh and Hindu minorities, Afghanistan has seen these communities shrink from an estimated 250,000 in the 1980s to less than 1,000 as a result of ongoing warfare and targeted discrimination in the Muslim-majority nation. The ongoing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops, which is already more than 50% complete, has triggered a recent surge of violence. Dawa Khan Menapal, director of the Kabul-based Government Media and Information Center, said that the Afghan government is committed to providing security to the Hindu and Sikh communities. “We have addressed their concerns. We have taken measures for their safety,” Menapal said, adding that some Hindu and Sikh families have recently returned to Afghanistan. Asadullah Yusufi, a commissioner at Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, said that the return of dozens of Hindu and Sikh families to Afghanistan is a “sign of hope” for a return to normalcy, but concerns exist about insecurity in the country and a “surge in civilian casualties, particularly of the religious minorities.” Human Rights Watch said in March that insurgent groups in Afghanistan have increased attacks against minorities. A woman with a girl walks past the site of a car bomb blast that targeted schoolgirls in Kabul, Afghanistan May 10, 2021. Last month, a bombing outside a high school west of Kabul, where mainly Hazara Shiite Muslim minority live, killed at least 80 people, mostly schoolgirls, and injured scores. No group has taken responsibility for the attack. Afghan officials blamed the Taliban, who have rejected any involvement in that particular bombing despite increasing attacks in areas controlled by the Afghan government. Peace talks Meanwhile, the Taliban said Wednesday that its negotiators met with their Afghan government counterparts on Tuesday in Doha. Mohammad Naeem, the spokesperson for the Taliban’s political office in Doha, Qatar, tweeted that the teams discussed “accelerating the Afghan negotiations and the topics of the [intra-Afghan talks] agenda.” No progress has been reported in the intra-Afghan talks that started in September 12 in Doha. Basant Singh, 55, who has been living for the past 27 years in India, said that he is “still hopeful for a peaceful resolution of the war in Afghanistan.” Basant Singh, who fled his home in the eastern city of Khost in 1991 and left Afghanistan in 1992 because of the civil war, said that he hopes “peace would come to Afghanistan so that all [Hindus and Sikhs] would return to their country and live in peace and happiness.” “I want to spend the rest of my life there,” he said. VOA’s Afghanistan Service reporter Ibrahim Rahimi contributed to this story from Khost.
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  4. I have read some of the debates about this and I just want to share my opinion in a couple of sentences. It doesn't matter if your gay or straight. Vahguru won't judge you on that. What mainly matters is your actions and did you connect to God. I believe that if your Christian Dharam Rai will judge you as a Christian. So did you read the Bible do you follow Jesus but no matter what faith or sexuality you are all get judged by these two things. Karam and Naam.
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  5. With Maharaaj's Apaar apaar kirpa me and my wife have a house of our own. Before our Anand Karj I told my wife if she wants to move out, we can. If she wants to stay with in laws, we can. Now, being from India, brought up in a loving, caring, joyous family, Indian culture she didn't understand any of this "move out?" Business. After marriage, got in UK ALAS! She understood and was desperate for us to leave only after 3 months lol. I am 32 now. On looking back at 10 years I have a few regrets, why didn't I move out earlier? Why didn't I live on rent? Why didn't I look for jobs out of home town? My current job is full of badh and tutti (along with family life) but I made up for it by having a better personal/ social life. Now, many of you reading I do have advice ONLY IF yer going/ been through a constant rough patch with your parents. It could be TOXIC RELATIONSHIP, Family do not agree with each other causing rifts. It can even be parents are CONTROLLING you at aged 24 plus?? IT'S NOT TOO LATE! The best thing always has an extremely first hard step. If you can see the hardships in your family MOVE OUT. If your wife is constantly unhappy AND you see why, know why, know parents are at fault MOVE OUT! End of the day, the bond between Husband and wife matters. This message is only for Couples who understand each other but in laws are being a problem by giving a constant grief. You cannot change your karma but you can certainly change your decisions. This much is in your hands.
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  6. Canada's gun laws are very strict. They recently banned ARs. We don't even have stand your ground laws either.
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  7. Shaheedi Purb Sri Guru Arjan Dev Sahib Ji - 32 Jeth
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  8. These woke people will also be curtailing gun rights which may lead to restrictions on kirpaans. And woke ppl support beadbi like inter religious and gay marriages. And may enforce them on religions. Like dally said, its best not to choose sides btw right and left. Best if we played both sides. So its good if we have sikhs on both sides as long as they dont bring those political divides btw sikhs
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  9. Although some of the ideas like a library is pointless as she said noone attends. I think a computer lab or cafe would be better with monitored access to internet. The waste managment ideas were good. Although i dont understand the liquid one.
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  10. I think the family is Ahmedias or Qadianis who are classed as non-Muslims and oppressed in Pakistan and not allowed by Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj. The interesting thing is how the Muslim organisations in Canada have now 'accepted' them as Muslims in order to further the Islamophobia agenda. The Ahmedias also have kept quiet as they think that this could lead to some sort of acceptance of them in the larger Muslim community. You can see that they were Ahmedias but the sign left at the site and carried by some who protested against the crime. "love for all and hatred for none" is a Ahmedia religious slogan which you can see on their 'mosques'. The irony is that most of those non-Ahmedi Muslims protesting against the murders wouldn't have batted an eyelid had the family been murdered in Pakistan by Muslims.
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  11. Didy Adansi, aged 52, of Toronto, is charged with trafficking ketamine (two counts), conspiracy to traffick ketamine, possession of methamphetamine and possession of the proceeds of crime. Pritpal Singh, aged 56, of Brampton, is charged with heroin trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking of heroin, cocaine and opium, possession of property obtained by crime (three counts) and possession of counterfeit money. Flippin 'ell. Even the 'sianay' was at it! Only in Canada! lol That being said: I'm not a supporter of the failed western 'war on drugs' strategy. I'd decimalise it and let adult junkies die as they will.
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  12. This video explains the bridge offered to Muslims. Enjoy.
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  13. Very odd for a Sikh to call Guru Gobind Singh as just "Guru Gobind"
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  14. This is Bollywood brainwashing Sikhs into believing that their religion is less important than Hindustan. Note how he is ok with giving up his religion which is 500 years old but cannot say Murdabad to an artificial country which is only a few months old at that time!
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