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Lol. What usually sets them off is something so simple and innocuous. Like an extended family member is in the hospital and somebody pipes up and says, hey, why don't we do Chaupai Sahib for his rakhia? This unbalances the Uncleji for a double whammy: First that he thinks Chapai isn't Sri Mukhvaak. Second, the idea of praying to God for intercession in the world upsets him. Even though Guru Granth Sahib ji talks in innumerable places (even in Rehras) about intercession. Ahem, Prahlad? Namdev ji? So the Uncleji starts lecturing. And people start glancing at each other as in "What is happening??".

It's usually simpler than that. They are plain dumb and just parroting what they've heard from other uninformed sources. And those sources are usually unwittingly doing exactly what Rhinehart is saying: Framing things from a western, orientalist framework rooted in biblical studies. Even heavyweights like Kahn Singh Nabha wasn't immune, so imagine what chances the average mota dimaag apna would have. I never saw anyone do what you described with that 'crazy uncle'. I came across the ideas of 'erotic stories' and 'Hindu stories' etc. from written works. Hell, I might have easily been one of those uncles, without Guru ji's nadar.

Interesting. Thanks. Isn't the author JS Mann a hardcore anti-Dasam? Even if he his, that's fine. I think the anti-Dasam crowd has done good work in the anti-McLeod field. One of the reasons I say I'd rather fight it out with Sikh brothers is because I don't think the Missionary nonsense is permanent. There's something called reversion to norm. A cranky Uncleji might be anti-Dasam, and going on and on about this Charitar or that section of Chandi until his family and relatives get bored, but the pursuing generations will just go right back to matha-teking to Guru Granth Sahib ji, and visiting the "dreaded" Hazur Sahib and reading Chaupai Sahib.

I can actually agree with this paragraph, while also desiring for her to stay the hell out of our business. For her, the "Dasam Granth" is an object of study. It might as well be the Epic of Gilgamesh or the Code of Hammurabi for her. It's just a "text", an item for her to transform into a study, which then transforms into a professorship, which transforms in money, grants, awards, and gratification of her hankar (ego). For us, the Dasam Granth Sahib is not object of study. It is our Guru's bani. It is the vehicle through which our Guru breathes the spirit of martial resistance into our Panth. Sri Dasam Granth Sahib is a living manifestation of our Miri, not a dead "text".

This Is one of the best books out there when it comes to describing the revolutionary achievements of Sikhi in relation to caste during the early days of the Khalsa. It's essential reading in my opinion. Hope some people learn from it: https://ia802508.us.archive.org/17/items/TheSikhRevolutionAPerspectiveView/TheSikhRevolutionAPerspectiveView.pdf (stub link now updated for download)

Bro, when the media says "people-smuggling" it doesn't necessarily mean brining over pubescent girls for sex brothels, like Muslims. It may very well be nothing more than trying to get our people away from unsafe situations. In fact, there was a truck or ship container that was full of Afghan Sikhs a decade or so back. If the media favors someone, they are called "refugees". If not, they are called trafficked. If these Sikhs helped a few people out, what's the big deal? Angela Merkel (former German chancellor) invited a million Muslims to walk into Germany.