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Pull out the EU, EU holds britain back
Agree pull out of the EU and become masters of our destiny in a Sovereign nation as WaheGuru intended.
Also pull out of NATO, Turkey a so called ally has done next to nothing in tackling ISIS.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-marc-ginsberg/kobani-cabal----when-it-c_b_5942298.html
Time for Britain to go it alone again with strategic economic and miltary alliances with a new set of partners around the globe i.e. the BRICs. Britain has already signed up with the Chinese bank.
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Poodna Ji, not voting is in fact a vote for the continuation of the status quo.
It is vital all Sikhs vote for whichever "lesser devil" they feel can somewhat support Sikh interests best.
Don't forget the historical lessons we the Sikh Panth painfully endured when in 1980 Damdami Taksal campaigned for Congress (Indira) and the disastrous consequences for our Panth thereafter.
And also remember what happened when Beanta became CM of Punjab due to being elected unopposed.
Sikhs MUST use our votes for those representatives we feel we can support Sikh interests to a greater degree than their opponents.
Us Sikhs are so lucky to have Badal fortunately Beant Singh has passed on ;-)
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TwitterResults for #RotherhamAbuse
Labour's Sarah Champion MP pictured with two suspended #RotherhamAbuse grooming taxi drivers. Sajid & Majid Bostan
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Revealed: Authorities warned of child sex abuse in Rotherham 12 YEARS AGO but did nothing 'because police priorities were burglary and car crime'
- Documents handed to police and council in 2003 told of widespread abuse
- Warnings over grooming were repeated in 2006, but no action was taken
- The huge scale of the exploitation of children did not emerge until last year
- Author of original reports says she was told police priority was car crime
By Richard Spillett for MailOnline
Published: 07:19, 5 May 2015 | Updated: 16:26, 5 May 2015
Police and council officials in Rotherham were warned that gangs of men were grooming children for sex as long ago as 2003 but failed to act, it emerged today.
South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council were given a list of suspects along with a report that linked drug-dealing and 'significant' child abuse in the Yorkshire town.
The warnings were repeated in another report three years later, but no action was taken against the gangs trafficking children.
The expert who produced both reports - which were released for the first time today - says police told her such crimes were 'awful' but the force's priorities were burglary and car crime.
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+7Police and council officials were told of child sex abuse in Rotherham in 2003 but failed to act, it has emerged
The 2003 report stated: 'It is a commonly held belief, from a number of different agencies, that there are some drug dealers who are sexually exploiting vulnerable young people.'
It went on: 'It is very evident in Sheffield and Rotherham, where information is received from projects that have been established to tackle the issue, that significant abuse takes place.'
The report noted a number of missed opportunities to catch abusers, including when an 18-year-old woman was charged with theft after she reported being raped by a well-known heroin dealer - but was never questioned about the rape.
Police also took seven months to contact a man who offered his house as an observation post after noticing significant numbers of teenage girls attending his neighbour's home.
Dr Heal said one 13-year-old, from a middle-class family, reported being raped on four separate weekends by a number of men. The perpetrators threatened her and her family into not giving evidence and police were unable to act without statements from the girl.
Another girl said she was kidnapped on a number of successive weekends and repeatedly raped but her father did not feel able to complain because he was too scared.
Share this articleShareDr Heal warned police and partner agencies not to be complacent and made a number of recommendations.
The second report, in 2006, warned that abusers were able to carry on with 'impunity' across South Yorkshire, with particular problems in Sheffield and Rotherham.
It stated: 'Sheffield has both an established on-street prostitution scene and a very entrenched sexual exploitation problem.
'There have been reports of sexual and physical violence perpetrated against teenage schoolgirls and adult women in Sheffield.'
The report said some of the main perpetrators appeared to be pimps and drug dealers, including an Asian family in Rotherham and members of the Afro-Caribbean community in Sheffield.
The reports, made public for the first time today after a freedom of information request by the Sheffield Star revealed, were written by ex-South Yorkshire Police drugs analyst Angie Heal, who has said she 'cannot fathom' why the abuse was not stopped.
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+7Former council leader Roger Stone (left) and Shaun Wright (right), who became Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire after working for the council, both resigned over the scandal
She said: 'It definitely wasn't a priority. There was a whole mix of issues. It was around blaming the victims and not understanding the issue.
'I can't understand why anyone told about the multiple rape of children wouldn't respond effectively to that. There was a lack of common sense in applying basic policing practices and following the law in these cases. It was in the 'too hard to deal with' tray.'
Dr Heal added: 'A senior officer said to me at one point, it was awful but burglary and car crime were policing priorities set by the government.
CHILD SEX GANG PROBLEMS EXTENDED TO SHEFFIELDThe newly released reports show the issue of child grooming extended beyond Rotherham into neighbouring Sheffield.
A 2006 report found Sheffield had an 'established on-street prostitution scene and a very entrenched sexual exploitation problem'.
It also recorded reports of 'sexual and physical violence perpetrated against teenage schoolgirls' in the city.
The report said some of the main perpetrators appeared to be pimps and drug dealers, including an Asian family in Rotherham and members of the Afro-Caribbean community in Sheffield.
The report's author Dr Angie Heal said there were differences between what was going on in Sheffield and Rotherham, such as the ethnic background of offenders.
But the lack of police response was similar in both places, she said.
'I am frustrated that nothing was done with the information provided. I just feel so upset and very, very angry.
'The abuse could have been stopped. I feel for the victims and families and frontline staff that tried their best in such horrendous circumstances.'
South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner, the Rev Dr Alan Billings, has promised the findings of Dr Heal will be looked at as part of a planned inquiry into South Yorkshire Police.
He said today that nothing was done about the problems because the girls involved were wrongly seen as prostitutes.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: 'I don't think any of us at that time understood what grooming was and that this was grooming.
'I think we saw these girls not as victims but as troublesome young people out of control and willing participants.
'We saw it as child prostitution rather than child abuse, and I think that was broadly accepted and that's why it all went wrong.'
Dr Billings confirmed police were prioritising burglary and car theft because of public demands at the time.
South Yorkshire Police said it is holding an ongoing investigation by the Independent Police Complaints Commission into misconduct issues.
A force spokesman said: 'There has been a significant increase in the number of police officers and staff dedicated to tackling child sexual exploitation and we are absolutely committed to achieving justice, stopping the harm and preventing future offending.
'We have centralised the team of officers involved in ongoing investigations into non-recent allegations of sexual exploitation, some of these investigations are large scale and involve large numbers of potential victims and potential offenders.'
+7Rev Dr Alan Billings, now South Yorkshire crime commissioner, said police did not know what grooming was
A Rotherham Council spokesman said the council had been unable to find any reference to the reports having been formally considered by the council.
Council leader Roger Stone, who was in charge of the authority from 2003 until 2014, left his post after the abuse scandal was exposed last year.
Shaun Wright was in charge of children's services in Rotherham from 2005 to 2010. He was then Labour's South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner from 2012 to 2014 but was forced to quit because of the widespread child sexual exploitation in the town.
A senior officer said to me at one point, it was awful but burglary and car crime were policing priorities set by the government.Former police analyst Angie HealA spokesman for the council said today: 'Child sexual exploitation is a challenge nationally and locally as we have previously stated.
'It is a dreadful and sad crime. Sheffield has been publishing annual reports for a number of years detailing this and how the Sheffield Safeguarding Children's Board were tackling the issue.
'We continue to use every tool at our disposal to tackle child sexual exploitation and will never be complacent. '
Today's revelations of how warnings were ignored by police and Rotherham council echo comments earlier this year by a Home Office researcher.
Adele Glasman was working within the local authority in 2002 when she raised fears of widespread child exploitation in the town.
She revealed in February that the council sent her on a 'race awareness course' rather than listen to her concerns.
She told the BBC: 'I had every aspect of my professionalism questioned. I had every aspect of my work questioned. I had data removed over a weekend so that I couldn't substantiate my findings.'
Ms Glasman claimed she became the victim of bullying and veiled threats from council staff and police.
She said the way the issue was handled has 'cost young people their health, their happiness and in some cases their lives'.
In February, a criminal investigation was launched after a damning report found Labour-run Rotherham Council was still 'in denial' about the 1,400 young girls who were abused in the town over 16 years.
Investigators instructed by the government concluded girls as young as 11 were left to be abused by mainly Asian men between 1997 and 2013 because the council's staff and politicians feared being labelled racist.
The council also had a 'deep-rooted' culture of sexism and bullying where it would 'shoot the messenger' and sought to force whistleblowers into silence or pay them off, it was said.
The report said South Yorkshire Police also failed in its role to protect victims, turning a blind eye to their plight and in many cases holding them responsible.
In one case an officer told a victim: 'Don't worry - you aren't the first girl to be raped by XX and you won't be the last'.
ROTHERHAM CHILD ABUSE: HOW SCANDAL UNFOLDED OVER TWO DECADESEarly to mid 1990s
According to a report published last year, community workers come across examples of child sexual exploitation and find children under the care of the local authority are at risk of being targeted.
1997
The 'Risky Business' youth project is set up to work with people between the ages of 11 and 25 in Rotherham, amid concerns young people are being abused through prostitution.
Late 1990s
Youth workers start to identify vulnerable girls and young women on Rotherham's streets and refer them to children's social care.
Early 2000s
A small group of professionals from key agencies meet children at risk of, or involved in, child sexual exploitation but their work is not properly supported, according to the Jay report.
Senior police and social workers think the extent of the issue is being exaggerated.
2002
A Home Office draft report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham criticises agencies and says there is a 'high prevalence of young women being coerced and abused through prostitution'.
Police and senior officers at the council are unhappy with the report, claiming some facts are either exaggerated or made up.
+7Authorities in Rotherham were given repeated warnings about the scale of the issue, but failed to respond
August 2003
A report by strategic drugs analyst Dr Angie Heal, commissioned by South Yorkshire Police, finds there are a 'significant number of girls and some boys who are being sexually exploited' in Rotherham.
April 2007
An investigation into the grooming and sexual abuse of young boys identifies more than 70 alleged victims. A man is convicted of offences against 10 children.
2008
Operation Central is set up to investigate men believed to be involved in child sexual exploitation.
Autumn 2009
Ofsted rates Rotherham's children's services as 'inadequate'.
December 2009
The minister of state for young people and families serves the council with an improvement notice for its children's safeguarding services.
2010
Five men given lengthy jail terms after they are found guilty of grooming teenage girls for sex.
April 2010
The local Safeguarding Children Board sets up a child sexual exploitation sub group.
September 2012
The Times publishes an investigation revealing that a confidential police report had warned thousands of child sexual exploitation crimes were being committed in South Yorkshire by networks of Asian men.
The newspaper also reports that agencies in the town had extensive knowledge of such crimes for decades. South Yorkshire Police denies claims in article.
November 2012
Shaun Wright wins election to become South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner. He states that tackling child sexual exploitation is one of his priorities.
+7The full scale of the abuse was laid bare in a devastating report by Professor Alexis Jay last year
August 2013
Four women sue the council for failing to protect them when they were children.
August 2014
Professor Alexis Jay publishes commissioned report into child abuse in Rotherham, revealing more than 1,400 children had been subjected to rape, violence and trafficking between 1997 and 2013.
Rotherham Borough Council leader Roger Stone steps down with immediate effect. Mr Wright issues a statement saying he will stay in his job as PCC, despite calls for him to stand down.
Home Secretary Theresa May backs calls for Mr Wright to step down and his deputy PCC Tracey Cheetham announces she is resigning because she is 'unable to continue' in her role.
September 2014
Mr Wright resigns.
The Labour Party suspends four of its members pending an investigation: former leader of the council Roger Stone, ex-deputy council leader, Jahangir Akhtar, Gwendoline Russell, and Shaukat Ali.
December 2014
National Crime Agency (NCA) begins investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham
February 2015
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles announces new elections in 2016 to replace Rotherham Council's 'wholly dysfunctional' political leadership.
The town where no one listened: The two reports which exposed how more than a decade of child sex abuse was ignored by those in power
The full scale of what happened in Rotherham was revealed in a council commissioned report by Professor Alexis Jay in August last year.
Professor Jay, an academic and former social worker who chaired an independent inquiry into the abuse, condemned the 'blatant' collective failures by the council's leadership.
She concluded: 'It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered.'
The landmark report, which exposed widespread failures of the council, police and social services revealed:
- Victims were doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, terrorised with guns, made to witness brutally-violent rapes and told they would be the next if they spoke out;
- They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated;
- One victim described gang rape as 'a way of life';
- Police 'regarded many child victims with contempt';
- Some fathers tried to rescue their children from abuse but were arrested themselves;
- The approximate figure of 1,400 abuse victims is likely to be a conservative estimate of the true scale of abuse.
+7Rotherham council, whose headquarters are pictured, has previously been found to have been 'in denial'
Louise Casey, director-general for troubled families at the government's Communities Department, was then asked to investigate the council by Mr Pickles.
Her devastating 160-page report, published in February, revealed that:
- Reports of abuse were ignored by the council because it was 'in denial' about the crimes.
- Staff and politicians failed to tackle abuse by Asian gangs 'for fear of being seen as racist'.
- Senior councillors bullied and suppressed staff who highlighted that the abusers were ‘predominantly’ Pakistani.
- Whistleblowers were silenced with pay-offs or 'bullied out of the organisation' if they refused to stay silent.
- Officers ignored warnings from a youth project in town about habitual abuse of children in the town and then shut it down.
- There was a 'a pervading culture of sexism, bullying and silencing debate' at the council.
- The council failed children and is still failing them and has 'taken more care of its reputation than it has its of its most needy'.
- Victims were denied support and justice as social services and police blamed each other for lack of action.
- Even after the grooming scandal was exposed, a serving councillor told the new inquiry he believed the Asian men accused of grooming girls for sex had in reality been ‘fooled’ by girls aged 14 and 15 whose clothing and make-up made them ‘look more adult’.
- One whistleblower branded the council a ‘machine’ which ‘simply exists to cover up and destroy’.
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Don't vote Lib\Lab\Con vote UKIP, with Uppal make him unemployed on Friday!
Fury at Labour's segregated rally: Sexism row after senior party figures attend Birmingham election meeting where Muslim men and women are seated separately- Picture from Birmingham rally shows men and women sitting apart in hall
- Labour sources say it wasn't enforced but allowed Muslim women to attend
- Critics call decision 'sickening' and say party will 'do anything for votes'
- MP who fought against segregation in schools was centre stage at event
- Khalid Mahmood said: 'Nobody was told to sit anywhere. It just happened'
By Daniel Martin Chief Political Correspondent For The Daily Mail and Martin Robinson for MailOnline
Published: 10:37, 5 May 2015 | Updated: 16:16, 5 May 2015
Labour faces a sexism row today after it defended the decision to segregate Muslim men and women at a party rally at an Islamic centre.
Senior party figures, including Liam Byrne, Tom Watson and Harriet Harman's husband Jack Dromey, spoke at the event in Birmingham on Saturday even though men sat on one side of the room and women on the other.
Labour has denied that people were forced to sit separately based on gender - even though photographs from the event show that the groups were clearly segregated.
Critics called the decision 'sickening' and claimed that the party was 'selling values for votes' in order to get Ed Miliband into Downing Street.
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+7Row: Men and women sat apart at a Labour-run event in Birmingham on Saturday, which critics said had no 'place in modern Britain'
+7Among those on the panel were Tom Watson, fer left, Liam Byrne, centre left, and Jack Dromey, centre right, – the husband of Labour's deputy leader and ardent feminist Harriet Harman
Among the Labour grandees at the event was Khalid Mahmood, who is standing to be MP for Perry Bar on Thursday.
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WGJK WGJKF,
I have now donated to Barusahib, if anyone can endorse Pinglewara institution I will make a donation ASAP.
The Khalsa Reigns Supreme!
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DTF well stated.
I have been thinking in donating to Barusahib for a short while. You have made up my mind in my need to donate.I ask WaheGuru where else can I donate to make a real difference my question has been answered.
I don't tend to donate to Gurdwaras as such monies just ends up in bigger buildings for smaller & smaller congregations.
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Whilst it is none of our business what consenting adults get up to behind bedroom doors, this Senior police office who is a public servant is carrying on as if his work of place is his Baba's family business? It is no wonder the authorities have ignored grooming that has occured on a industrial scale when their minds are elsewhere?
Senior police officer investigated after ordering pants from a fetish website and having them delivered to his station- Detective Sergeant Mark Burns accused of ordering thong to his station
- He had the used pants sent to his Preston HQ so his wife wouldn't find out
- Officer investigated after claims he ordered panties to station in the past
By Callum Paton For Mailonline
Published: 08:55, 3 May 2015 | Updated: 09:06, 3 May 2015
A senior police officer is being investigated after he ordered a used thong from a fetish website and had the dirty knickers delivered to his police station.
Detective Sergeant Mark Burns allegedly made contact with a girl online and bought her used size six thong for £20.
The woman told the Mirror that Burns asked for the pants to be sent to Preston Police Operational HQ where he worked so that his wife would not find out.
+3Detective Sergeant Burns asked for some used hot pink thongs 'pollypanties' had worn for two days and paid £20 for them
+3The senior police officer is now being investigated after it emerged he had ordered the underwear to Preston Police Operational HQ (pictured) to avoid being caught by his wife
He is now reported to have admitted that he had panties posted to the HQ in the past.
The woman, who is 20 years old, and operates using the handle ‘polliepanties’ on a fetish website spoke of her shock when she was messaged by a policeman.
‘It was even worse when he asked to send it to the station,’ she said, adding she felt it was not the kind of thing the police should be doing.
Share this articleShareOnline, Detective Sergeant Burns asked her to send him pants she had worn for two days and requested a video, the young woman clams.
She said she agreed to the transaction to make a bit of extra cash and took a couple of pictures of herself wearing the underwear, posting them on the website.
Alongside the images ‘polliepanties’ wrote ‘selling all my used panties to all you dirty boys,’ adding that they could have them however they wanted them.
She claims she received a message from the police officer this week complimenting her bottom.
After she sent him some pictures he asked for some hot-pink thongs she had worn.
+3The young woman claimed Burns explained to her that he had ordered underwear to his police HQ in Preston (pictured) in the past
Explaining that he wanted the pants sent to the police station so that they would avoid the attention of his wife, Detective Sergeant Burns then said he had ordered underwear to the station before and provided the address.
He is understood to have worked on senstivie cases in the Lancashire area in the past including an historic sex abuse investigation and a sexual assault at a hotel.
Lancashire Police has said the matter was referred to its Professional Standards Department which has undertaken an investigation.
It added that the officer has been placed on alternative duties while the investigation is carried out.
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"This is what a feminist looks like unless we need to be hyprocrites and chase any vote going and disregard any principles we allegedly have ;-)"
http://order-order.com/2015/05/02/everydaysexualsegregation/#_@/WrfvPKJ1YTdhhQ
The above would have made Alabama Governor George Wallace’s so proud with his famous speech ‘Segregation Now, Segregation Tomorrow, Segregation Forever’ as remembered as one of the most vehement rallying cries against racial equality in American history.
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UKIP because of the reputation of Labour with young children!
Police probe Labour parliamentary hopeful who 'went on Snapchat and asked public schoolgirl, 17: Ready for bed yet?'- Richard Garvie was investigated by police over 'inappropriate' messages
- Labour candidate allegedly asked 17-year-old girl if she was 'ready for bed'
- Police found no offences were committed but he was given 'strong advice'
- Separately Garvie was suspended by Labour after being convicted of fraud
By Neil Sears and Andy Dolan for the Daily Mail
Published: 22:00, 1 May 2015 | Updated: 22:17, 1 May 2015
+3Richard Garvie has been investigated by police over ‘inappropriate’ social media contact with a 17-year-old public schoolgirl
A Labour Party candidate has been investigated by police over ‘inappropriate’ social media contact with a 17-year-old public schoolgirl.
Richard Garvie, 30, is said to have sent messages to the sixth former after addressing students at Wellingborough School, Northamptonshire, last week.
It is believed the girl’s mother alerted the school after discovering Garvie had been contacting her daughter.
Allegedly the would-be MP asked the girl whether she was doing anything that night and if she was ‘ready for bed?’.
Both the £14,500-a-year co-ed school and the police immediately launched investigations into the matter.
A spokesman for the school said: ‘The situation was investigated immediately, in keeping with the school’s safeguarding policy, and was reported then to the Northamptonshire Police, who followed their own investigative lines.’
Last night a spokesman for Northamptonshire Police said: ‘An investigation took place and our officers determined that no specific offences had taken place, however, he was given strong words of advice regarding his conduct.’
Garvie had been at the school for a hustings with rival candidates for the constituency of Wellingborough and Rushden. It was the last of three similar events at local schools.
Tory candidate Peter Bone, who is hoping to hold on to the seat, has a child at the school and described the allegations surrounding Mr Garvie as ‘quite disturbing’.
He added: ‘Whatever was said was obviously serious enough for the school to bring in the police.’
Share this articleShareIn a further twist, Garvie has been suspended by Labour over a separate matter, meaning the party now has no candidate in the constituency because it is past the deadline for replacing him. As he is already down on the official list of candidates, he remains up for election but as an independent.
Garvie was suspended after failing to tell his party that he was facing a fraud case. On Thursday, magistrates found him guilty of buying almost £1,000 of rail tickets from a bank account he knew had insufficient funds. He is yet to be sentenced. But Labour Party officials had by then also been told about the humiliating inquiries into their candidate’s online contact with schoolchildren.
+3Richard Garvie, 30, is said to have sent messages to the sixth former after addressing students at Wellingborough School (pictured), Northamptonshire
The scandal began ten days ago when all the Wellingborough candidates attended the hustings at the historic school – founded in 1595 – and were questioned by an audience of boys and girls.
A school source said: ‘I was told [Garvie] got into a conversation with a schoolgirl on Snapchat in which you send messages with a photo, which are designed to disappear after a few seconds, although you can take copies of them to keep.
+3Allegedly the would-be MP asked the girl whether she was doing anything that night and if she was ‘ready for bed?’
‘She forwarded to a friend one of the messages Garvie sent her, and the words were “ready for bed?”.’
Another source said the girl involved had shown the messages to her boyfriend, who said they were inappropriate. He then told her mother, who complained to the school.
A group of sixth formers were then called in to a meeting with headmaster Garry Bowe.
Last night Garvie, a former local radio DJ from Corby in Northamptonshire, denied any interactions with an individual girl, saying he only talked politics online with a group from the school.
Mr Garvie said: ‘I don’t accept that I’ve done anything inappropriate. If something inappropriate had taken place there would have been an offence committed.
‘I don’t think I did have a Snapchat conversation with anyone.
‘I engaged with a group of students from the school on Twitter, about the Mansion Tax and Non-Dom tax relief or whatever it is...
‘I got a b******ing from a sergeant. The words of advice were that if I’m being invited into schools for a debate, not to engage with students on social media afterwards or in any form. He had said he wanted to talk to me about Twitter.’
Last night the Labour Party did not respond to questions about its disgraced candidate’s dealings with schoolgirls, but said in a letter to Garvie that he had been suspended over his conviction for the fraudulent purchase of rail tickets. Garvie is appealing his suspension.
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So if a muslim pakistani guy and a sikh girl gets married, its different from a polish Christian women getting married to a sikh man. Cmon, fix up... they are both void marriages, both parties are in the wrong. If they want both guys and girls from our community should get married in a registry office.
A Polish Christian will have no agenda in converting the girl to gain paradise and have access to 72 virgins in the after life.
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Unless he has converted to Sikhism this is in direct contradiction to Shri Guru's Gobind Singh Ji's Hukam.
"Do not given a daughter's hand in marriage to a shaven one. Give her to a household where the Undying divine personification Akal purakh and tenets of Sikhism are respected, to household without debt, of a pleasing nature, which is disciplined and educated".
Then there is the Akal Takhts rules and regulations on who can and can't get married in a Gurdwara in the presence of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib.
The question I would like to ask is what are the girl's parent's, siblings, extended family and friends thinking?
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Not it seems the paedophile supporting Labour Party!
Keith Vaz helped kill a 90s probe into the Greville Janner claims: why is he silent now?The MP was among those whose support for Lord Janner stifled an investigation into child-abuse allegations. Vaz should admit his errorPolitical calculation? Keith Vaz. Photograph: Martin Godwin
Saturday 25 April 2015 20.48 BST Last modified on Saturday 25 April 2015 20.51 BSTKeith Vaz, prospective parliamentary candidate for Leicester East, is a keen user of Twitter. On any given day, the veteran MP, who has held the constituency for the Labour party since 1987, can tweet half a dozen times or more, spraying a mix of feeble self-promotion and blunt political rhetoric. Except at the moment. Last Sunday, he tweeted his thanks to the Bollywood star Abhishek Bachchan, who had visited the city to campaign alongside him. Since then, Vaz has been uncharacteristically silent.
It’s bizarre, because finally there’s something people want to hear him talk about. Last week in the Observer, I described how my 1991 investigations into allegations of child sex abuse by the former Leicester MP Greville, now Lord, Janner, were brought to a halt by supportive statements in the Commons from MPs. Key among them was that by Vaz, who said that his close colleague had been “the victim of a cowardly and wicked attack”.
When news first broke on 16 April that Janner would not stand trial on 22 counts of child abuse because of his dementia, I asked Vaz via Twitter whether he would care to comment about his support for Janner. He first reacted by blocking me. He unblocked me, but didn’t respond.
I assumed that he would speak after my article was published and widely circulated, but no. A week on, and the failure to respond properly to the issues I have raised continues.
The most generous analysis is that Vaz is making a blunt political calculation in the midst of an election: he just has to tough it out. The problem is that the longer he fails to address the issues fully, the more complicit he seems in a passive establishment effort to help Janner to avoid facing charges in court.
It’s not as if there isn’t a form of words he could use. He could reference the recognised cleverness of suspected abusers, and express regret if anything he once said added to the distress of Janner’s alleged victims. It seems he has decided against that. As a result, a matter that could have been consigned to history remains very much alive.
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The committee did everything wrong.
They did not respect the law of the land in regards to minimum wage. Brahmins would be so proud that a so called egalitarian religion paid slave wages to its own kind.
They did not respect the value of the Shri Guru Granth Sahib being orally spoken by the Granthis.
They behaved like dictators in dismissing legitimate grievances.
Bring back the Panj Pyare System, no more building funds.
Simple Gurdwaras to respect the Shri Guru Granth Sahib with hall, decent kitchen areas, Langar hall, clean toilets, classrooms to teach Gurmukhi and run social classes. Facilities to keep the Granthis comfortable.
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NOT LABOUR!
http://www.bbc.co.uk...rshire-32329924
Lord Janner will not face child sex abuse charges, CPS says
- 6 hours ago
- From the section Leicester
Media caption The decision not to prosecute Lord Janner has led to a furious reaction from campaigners for child abuse victims, as Tom Symonds reportsLabour peer Lord Janner will not face child sex abuse charges because the severity of his dementia makes him unfit to stand trial, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
The abuse allegations relate to residents in Leicestershire children's homes between 1970 and the 1980s.
Police condemned the CPS decision as "wrong", and the Labour Party has suspended the 86-year-old peer.
Lord Janner "is entirely innocent of any wrongdoing", his family has said.
A retired High Court judge will now review the CPS's handling of the case.
'Extremely disappointing'More than a dozen individuals made allegations to police relating to Greville Janner, the CPS said.
The "core allegation" was that as MP for Leicester West at the time, Lord Janner befriended the manager of a children's care home to allow him access to children so he could "perpetrate serious sexual offences on children", the CPS said.
Leicestershire Police interviewed more than 2,000 people throughout the course of their investigation, and a "comprehensive file of evidence" was submitted to the CPS.
Lord Janner pictured in 1996 - a year before he retired as Leicester West MP
In a statement, Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said there was enough evidence to charge him with:
- Fourteen indecent assaults on a male under 16 between 1969 and 1988
- Two indecent assaults between 1984 and 1988
- Four counts of buggery of a male under 16 between 1972 and 1987
- Two counts of buggery between 1977 and 1988
She said the CPS were "wrong" not to prosecute the Cardiff-born peer following investigations in 1991 and 2007.
"The police made the decision not to pursue Greville Janner in 2002, which again we have looked at and in our view it was wrong," she told the BBC's World at One.
"There are real lessons to be learnt... if we had the evidence we now have earlier, I think the position would have been very different when Greville Janner's medical condition was not as it is today," Ms Saunders said.
Lord Janner was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009, the CPS said.
Assistant Chief Constable Roger Bannister of Leicestershire Police said the force had invited the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to look into "what happened in the early 2000s" and inquiries are ongoing.
"Why was the decision different? Could it have been? Should it have been? If that's the case then I would be the first to say that's regrettable," ACC Bannister said.
Last year a former detective sergeant with Leicestershire Police, Mick Creedon - now chief constable of Derbyshire Police - told a national newspaper that in 1989 he was ordered not to arrest Lord Janner and not to search his home.
Mick Creedon said he was told not to arrest Lord Janner or search his home
Responding to the CPS's decision, the force said it was "worried" about its impact.
ACC Bannister said he believed it was "the wrong one" and it would do little to support and encourage victims of sexual abuse to come forward.
He said: "I am extremely worried about the impact the decision not to prosecute him will have on those people [who came forward].
"More widely I am worried about the message this decision sends out to others, both past and present, who have suffered and are suffering sexual abuse.
"We are exploring what possible legal avenues there may be to challenge this decision, and victims themselves have a right to review under a CPS procedure."
Lord Janner, pictured here with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been suspended by the Labour Party
One man, whose claims that he was assaulted by the peer were investigated by Leicestershire Police, said the decision was a disgrace and "if he was an everyday person with a normal life and job, justice would [have] been served".
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said Labour "acted swiftly and decisively" to suspend Lord Janner from the party following the CPS announcement.
He said the allegations were "very serious" but he understood the CPS's decision.
But Sir Clive Loader, Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, said the decision was "not just wrong" but "wholly perverse" and "contrary to any notion of natural justice".
Explaining its decision, the CPS said there is no treatment for Lord Janner's condition and there is no current or future risk of offending.
His condition is "rapidly becoming more severe" and requires continuous care both day and night, the statement said.
"His evidence could not be relied upon in court and he could not have any meaningful engagement with the court process, and the court would find it impossible to proceed."
Ms Saunders said the decision will be "extremely disappointing to complainants" and she has written to all of them.
Last year the CPS announced it was considering evidence against Lord Janner as part of an inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse.
The investigation was linked to Frank Beck, who was found guilty of sexually and physically abusing more than 100 children in the 1970s and 1980s.
Beck, who ran children's homes in Leicestershire, was given five life prison sentences and died in jail.
Clive Coleman, BBC Legal Correspondent
The Code for Crown Prosecutors says that, when assessing if a prosecution is in the public interest, consideration should be given "as to whether the suspect is, or was at the time of the offence, suffering from any significant mental or physical ill health as in some circumstances this may mean that it is less likely that a prosecution is required".
If they cannot understand the difference between guilty and not guilty, cannot give instructions to their lawyers and so cannot test the evidence against them, prosecutors will not generally charge them.
That is small comfort to the alleged victims of Greville Janner, but it is the system operating to ensure that the mentally frail do not face unfair trials that they cannot comprehend.
An NSPCC spokesman said "something went badly wrong" in the way the allegations were handled and "we need to be reassured this will never happen again".
In a statement Lord Janner's family described him as a "man of great integrity and high repute with a long and unblemished record of public service".
"As the Crown Prosecution Service indicated today, this decision does not mean or imply that any of the allegations that have been made are established or that Lord Janner is guilty of any offence," the family said.
In 1991, Lord Janner made statements in Parliament asserting his innocence after a man claimed he had abused him.
He will remain a member of the House of Lords until his death or until he formally retires under reforms passed last year.
Retired High Court Judge Sir Richard Henriques will conduct an independent review into the CPS's decision making and how it handled the case, she said.
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Lord Janner will not face child sex abuse charges, CPS says- 6 hours ago
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Lord Janner pictured in 1996 - a year before he retired as Leicester West MPMedia caption The decision not to prosecute Lord Janner has led to a furious reaction from campaigners for child abuse victims, as Tom Symonds reportsLabour peer Lord Janner will not face child sex abuse charges because the severity of his dementia makes him unfit to stand trial, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has said.
The abuse allegations relate to residents in Leicestershire children's homes between 1970 and the 1980s.
Police condemned the CPS decision as "wrong", and the Labour Party has suspended the 86-year-old peer.
Lord Janner "is entirely innocent of any wrongdoing", his family has said.
A retired High Court judge will now review the CPS's handling of the case.
'Extremely disappointing'More than a dozen individuals made allegations to police relating to Greville Janner, the CPS said.
The "core allegation" was that as MP for Leicester West at the time, Lord Janner befriended the manager of a children's care home to allow him access to children so he could "perpetrate serious sexual offences on children", the CPS said.
Leicestershire Police interviewed more than 2,000 people throughout the course of their investigation, and a "comprehensive file of evidence" was submitted to the CPS.
In a statement, Director of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said there was enough evidence to charge him with:
- Fourteen indecent assaults on a male under 16 between 1969 and 1988
- Two indecent assaults between 1984 and 1988
- Four counts of buggery of a male under 16 between 1972 and 1987
- Two counts of buggery between 1977 and 1988
She said the CPS were "wrong" not to prosecute the Cardiff-born peer following investigations in 1991 and 2007.
"The police made the decision not to pursue Greville Janner in 2002, which again we have looked at and in our view it was wrong," she told the BBC's World at One.
"There are real lessons to be learnt... if we had the evidence we now have earlier, I think the position would have been very different when Greville Janner's medical condition was not as it is today," Ms Saunders said.
Lord Janner was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009, the CPS said.
Assistant Chief Constable Roger Bannister of Leicestershire Police said the force had invited the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to look into "what happened in the early 2000s" and inquiries are ongoing.
"Why was the decision different? Could it have been? Should it have been? If that's the case then I would be the first to say that's regrettable," ACC Bannister said.
Last year a former detective sergeant with Leicestershire Police, Mick Creedon - now chief constable of Derbyshire Police - told a national newspaper that in 1989 he was ordered not to arrest Lord Janner and not to search his home.
Mick Creedon said he was told not to arrest Lord Janner or search his homeResponding to the CPS's decision, the force said it was "worried" about its impact.
ACC Bannister said he believed it was "the wrong one" and it would do little to support and encourage victims of sexual abuse to come forward.
He said: "I am extremely worried about the impact the decision not to prosecute him will have on those people [who came forward].
"More widely I am worried about the message this decision sends out to others, both past and present, who have suffered and are suffering sexual abuse.
"We are exploring what possible legal avenues there may be to challenge this decision, and victims themselves have a right to review under a CPS procedure."
Lord Janner, pictured here with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, has been suspended by the Labour PartyOne man, whose claims that he was assaulted by the peer were investigated by Leicestershire Police, said the decision was a disgrace and "if he was an everyday person with a normal life and job, justice would [have] been served".
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has said Labour "acted swiftly and decisively" to suspend Lord Janner from the party following the CPS announcement.
He said the allegations were "very serious" but he understood the CPS's decision.
But Sir Clive Loader, Leicestershire Police and Crime Commissioner, said the decision was "not just wrong" but "wholly perverse" and "contrary to any notion of natural justice".
Explaining its decision, the CPS said there is no treatment for Lord Janner's condition and there is no current or future risk of offending.
His condition is "rapidly becoming more severe" and requires continuous care both day and night, the statement said.
"His evidence could not be relied upon in court and he could not have any meaningful engagement with the court process, and the court would find it impossible to proceed."
Ms Saunders said the decision will be "extremely disappointing to complainants" and she has written to all of them.
Last year the CPS announced it was considering evidence against Lord Janner as part of an inquiry into allegations of historical child abuse.
The investigation was linked to Frank Beck, who was found guilty of sexually and physically abusing more than 100 children in the 1970s and 1980s.
Beck, who ran children's homes in Leicestershire, was given five life prison sentences and died in jail.
Clive Coleman, BBC Legal CorrespondentThe Code for Crown Prosecutors says that, when assessing if a prosecution is in the public interest, consideration should be given "as to whether the suspect is, or was at the time of the offence, suffering from any significant mental or physical ill health as in some circumstances this may mean that it is less likely that a prosecution is required".
If they cannot understand the difference between guilty and not guilty, cannot give instructions to their lawyers and so cannot test the evidence against them, prosecutors will not generally charge them.
That is small comfort to the alleged victims of Greville Janner, but it is the system operating to ensure that the mentally frail do not face unfair trials that they cannot comprehend.
Share this story About sharingAn NSPCC spokesman said "something went badly wrong" in the way the allegations were handled and "we need to be reassured this will never happen again".
In a statement Lord Janner's family described him as a "man of great integrity and high repute with a long and unblemished record of public service".
"As the Crown Prosecution Service indicated today, this decision does not mean or imply that any of the allegations that have been made are established or that Lord Janner is guilty of any offence," the family said.
In 1991, Lord Janner made statements in Parliament asserting his innocence after a man claimed he had abused him.
He will remain a member of the House of Lords until his death or until he formally retires under reforms passed last year.
Retired High Court Judge Sir Richard Henriques will conduct an independent review into the CPS's decision making and how it handled the case, she said.
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At least 25 people suffered heavy injuries including 10 of severe acid burns at Jawad town in Madhya Pradesh’s Neemuch district when Muslim Jihadi miscreants pelted rocks and threw acid bombs at a Hindu religious procession being taken out on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti in state in Central India.
Hindu Existence Soon both sides engaged in fighting, forcing police to lob tear gas shells and cane charge to disperse the clashing crowd. The incident happened when the Hanuman Jayanti procession reached Khurra Chowk Mosque where Muslims targeted the Hindu people in procession from different sides. Though a few policemen tried to bring the situation under control, all efforts turned out futile as the situation went out of hand slowly.
Heavy violence flared up, with the Muslim mob setting fire to residential buildings, vehicles and the shops which left many people, including police personnel, injured. When Hindus started retaliation, police appeared to want to save the Jihadis. This attack upon Hindus on Hanuman Jayanti procession happened in a state ruled by a BJP Govt in Madhya Pradesh seems to be incapable for providing the safety security of the Hindus in their religious festivals.
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Rotherham police officer charged with possessing child pornography A POLICE officer in Rotherham has been charged with 16 counts of possessing indecent images of children.Now we know why the Police 'Still Target Other Crimes Above Child Grooming' they don't want to end up arresting their own colleagues\friends!!!
Police sergeant pleads guilty to abusing teenage girlA BRITISH Transport Police sergeant has pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.
Mick Defries, 58, of Barnham, appeared at Lewes Crown Court today (December 12) for a preliminary hearing and pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault of a female child under 13.
He has been remanded in custody and will be sentenced on January 10.
A British Transport Police spokesman said: “BTP can confirm that Sergeant Defries, who has served with the force for ten years, has been suspended from duty following his arrest and charge by Sussex Police.
“BTP’s professional standard’s department is assisting Sussex Police with their investigation.”
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A police officer based at Rotherham will appear in court tomorrow
GETTYPC Lee Lucas, 38, who is based in Rotherham, has been served a summons ordering him to attend court tomorrow in connection with possession of illegal images.
The charge comes after South Yorkshire Police carried out an internal investigation through its Professional Standards Department.
The investigation was supervised by police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Lucas has been suspended from his duties as the investigation continues.
It is not yet known when the allegations took place or how long Mr Lucas has worked with South Yorkshire Police.
A spokesperson for the force said: “This is the result of an internal investigation by the force's Professional Standards Department supervised by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.”
Lucas will appear at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court tomorrow.
Although not related, the charge will come as another blow for South Yorkshire Police who are currently facing a major investigation over how it handled up to 1,400 allegations of child sex abuse.
More than 100 allegations have been made against 42 South Yorkshire Police officers.
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Tuesday 07 April 2015 UKDid MI5 know about child abuse but fail to act?A former army intelligence officer says he alerted MI5 to abuse at Kincora boys' home, but was told to stop digging. It is not the first time MI5 has been accused of covering up child abuse.
Channel 4 News brought Kincora victim Richard Kerr face to face with Brian Gemmell, who worked as an army intelligence officer in Belfast in the 1970s. Mr Gemmell said he put in an official report about Kincora to a senior MI5 officer, but to his astonishment he claims he was ordered to stop digging and forget about it.
Speaking to Mr Kerr, he said: "That's the thing that hits me - that if I really pushed the thing through in 75-76, you could have been rescued. I'm sorry." Channel 4 News has contacted MI5 via the Home Office and is awaiting a response to Mr Gemmell's claims.
Mr Gemmell said he believed what happened at Kincora decades ago should be brought within the scope of the over-arching, judge-led inquiry Home Secretary Theresa May set up "to consider the extent to which state and non-state institutions have failed in their duty of care to protect children from sexual abuse and exploitation".
The inquiry was established following claims that children had been abused by politicians, public officials and celebrities over many decades. In July 2014, Mrs May indicated that it would be able to study files held by MI5.
Former Liberal MP Cyril Smith, who died in 2010, was said to have abused children during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. In 2012, the Crown Prosecution Service said he should have been charged, while Greater Manchester Police said although he could not be convicted posthumously, "from the overwhelming evidence we have, it is right and proper we should publicly recognise that young boys were sexually and physically abused".
His Labour successor alleges MI5 was involved in suppressing the allegations at the time. So what evidence is there that MI5 was involved in a cover-up, as alleged?
October 2012 - 'powerful paedophile network'In the Commons, Labour MP Tom Watson called on the police to examine allegations of a "powerful paedophile network linked to parliament and Number 10". He did not name any individuals, but his comments sparked a wider examination about whether political figures were involved in abuse - and whether they used their connections to cover this up.
September 2013 - MI5 'held on to' Smith evidenceChannel 4 Dispatches reported that the security services had held on to evidence of Smith's abuse in Lancashire in the 1960s. Former Lancashire Special Branch detective Tony Robinson told Dispatches he was contacted by MI5, who requested he send them the file by special courier. Smith's Liberals propped up the Labour government in the late 1970s - the so-called Lib-Lab pact.
April 2014 - MI5 'put pressure on police'Labour's Simon Danczuk, a successor to Smith as MP for Rochdale, published a book, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith, saying MI5 and Special Branch put pressure on the police to drop their investigation into Smith's activities. Mr Danczuk first raised the Smith case in the Commons in 2012 after alleged victims contacted him.
July 2014 - abuse inquiry will see MI5 filesMrs May implied that the judge-led inquiry she set up into historic child abuse would be able to see MI5 files. In response to a question from Tom Watson, she said: "My intention is that the fullest possible access should be made to government papers in relation to these matters. Where there are files where there are certain issues around who can have access to those files we will need to ensure that we have an appropriate means of ensuring that the information is available to the inquiry panel."
November 2014 - MI5 searches filesThe Wanless report into whether there had been a cover-up of the Home Office's handling of abuse allegations in the 1980s concluded that there was no evidence 114 missing official files had been "deliberately or systematically removed or destroyed to cover up organised child abuse".
At the request of the Wanless inquiry, MI5 carried out a search of its own files, but said it had not come across anything relevant to the review. Mrs May told MPs: "I cannot stand here and say the Home Office was not involved in a cover-up in the 1980s and that is why I am determined to get to the truth of this."
The inquiry was prompted by the hunt for a "dossier" handed to Leon Brittain in 1984, when he was home secretary, about alleged paedophile abuse in Westminster in the 1980s. Lord Brittan, who died in January, was himself accused of being involved in the abuse of children in the 1980s. He always strongly denied the allegations.
February 2015 - MI5 'knew about Kincora abuse'Gary Hoy, who was abused at the Kincora children's home in Belfast in the 1970s, was granted permission to launch a legal challenge against the government's decision to exclude Kincora from its judge-led abuse inquiry.
He said MI5 knew about the abuse he and others suffered, but failed to do anything about it. The allegation is that by allowing the abuse to go on, the security services would be able to blackmail powerful paedophiles. In 1981, three members of staff at the home were jailed for sexually abusing 11 boys.
March 2015 - agent 'caught on camera'BBC Newsnight said it had been told that a police operation into alleged abuse by Smith was scrapped shortly after he was arrested in the 1980s. According to an unnamed source, officers gathered evidence, including video footage, from a flat in south London. Smith was allegedly one of those caught on camera, along with a senior member of the intelligence agencies.
March 2015 - victims 'threatened' by MI5Investigative journalist Don Hale told Channel 4 News he had given the police evidence from interviews he had carried out with Smith and Brittan.
March 2015 - 'intimidated' by police
He said some victims and whisteblowers who had approached him had been "threatened" by police officers and MI5, "who've warned them not to talk to me or any other journalist and warned also that they might lose their pensions and about the officials secrets act and this is happening even up to the last few weeks".Speaking from the US, Kincora victim Richard Kerr, who says he was trafficked from Belfast to be abused in London, told Channel 4 News police had "intimidated" him because they did not want him to give evidence at the 1981 trial.
April 2015 - 'MI5 told about abuse'Former army intelligence officer, Brian Gemmell, who worked in Northern Ireland in the 1970s, told Channel 4 News he put in an official report about Kincora to a senior MI5 officer, but to his astonishment he claims he was ordered to stop digging and forget about it. Speaking to Kincora victim Richard Kerr, he said: "That's the thing that hits me - that if I really pushed the thing through in 75-76, you could have been rescued. I'm sorry."
Mr Gemmell told Channel 4 News he believed what happened at Kincora decades ago should be brought within the scope of the major child abuse inquiry announced by Theresa May.
Asked why, he said: "I think two words - Richard Kerr. I think Richard's transporting over to the United Kingdom mainland to be abused, rather than just being abused in Northern Ireland, speaks volumes. It ties the two together." Asked if he believed claims that efforts were still being made to cover up what happened, he said: "I do."
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SGPC was set up to gradually destroy Sikhism by the British establishment in 1920s they slowly infiltrated their members before partition and then when partition happened they saved themselves while Sikhs were left to fend for themselves and form armed groups to fight of the threat from british troops guarding trains into their lands which became pakistan and Muslim guard troops of the Indian army.
SGPC also drew up a controversial rehat maryada in 1940s which promoted only khalsa's being legitimate Sikhs and most people in power will be jatts in the higher levels and thus the other castes and chamars were sidelined. They knew the Dalit/Chamars formed the vast majority of Sikhs and with those numbers they could form a huge country called Sikhistan/Khalistan but they chose to push Dr Ambedkar into the camp of the buddhists and into hindustan /Indian Union and thus Sikhs got jack all.
The SGPC leadership was instrumental in organising operation blue star against sant bhindranwale secretly passing on intelligence to Indian army and co-ordinating where to attack and target while defenceless brave sons, fathers and mothers were left to face bullets and bombs of the Indian troops.Then the anti-sikh riots happened in delhi and SGPC did not threaten any violence in retaliation against what was happening to Sikhs in delhi they just offered to be the middleman in calming down tensions while remaining delhi Sikhs were fleeing to punjab for their lives for safety.
Basically most of the SGPC members are freemasons and are stooges of the elites within the Indian / British establishments. There is no hope for SGPC there is no hope for people who will are willing to bow down to corrupt people in power than bow down to Guru Ji and his light and righteous path. The dark side is always more easier to follow because the good side seems to have little reward in this world but after this life is gone they will soon realise who their creator is and why all this world was a test for their soul.
The above needs some work but the fundamentals are right.
Congress leaders pre and post Independence were Freemasons that is a fact, search Motilal Nehru and see the father of Jawaharlal in all his finest masonic regalia.
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Granthi Singh still in bana of Guru Gobind Singh dastaar and kes, because his heart is not a christian.
I was married to catholic, went to church with Vahiguroo in my heart as others preach Christ.
Ex mother-in-law receive Christian prayers, painkillers in death bed, but Sukhmani Sahib path calm her till last breath.
Guru Granth Sahib is King of all, Dhan Vahiguroo
Nicely put.
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Three paedophile-linked churches in Australia burned down in three days
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Open Gallery 1 St James Catholic church in Brighton, Australia Credit: Nicole GarmstonThree churches in the Australian city of Melbourne – all linked to prominent paedophile priests – have been burnt in the past three days in what is suspected to be a series of revenge attacks.
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Police believe the fires are suspicious but have so far found no links between them.
The latest church to be destroyed was St Mary’s Catholic Church, one of several parishes in which Kevin O’Donnell, a notorious paedophile, preyed on children during a 50-year career in Melbourne.
The fire started about 2:30am, local time on Tuesday.
O’Donnell, then aged 78, was finally charged and pleaded guilty in 1995 to indecently assaulting ten boys and two girls, aged between eight and 15.
He spent 15 months in jail and was freed in 1996 before dying the following year.
Two other churches damaged earlier this week were both linked to Ronald Pickering, who preyed on young boys from 1978 to 1993 before fleeing to Britain.
Pickering was never prosecuted but died about three years ago.
At least five of his victims killed themselves.
Peter Elliott, a regional Catholic bishop in the state of Victoria, said he did not believe the fires were started by a sex abuse victim but by someone with a “very disturbed mind”.
“I don’t see any pattern so far, except a very disturbed person,” he told Fairfax Media.
The fires at St Mary’s church in Dandenong, St James Church in Brighton and St Mary’s in St Kilda East occurred just days before the busy Easter services.
Father Declan O’Brien, the parish priest in Dandenong, said he was woken by smoke alarms and discovered a scene that was “something reminiscent of the Towering Inferno”.
“I’m trying my best to hold onto the Christian principle of forgiveness and at the moment as a human being, it’s very hard to do that,” he told ABC News.“I can understand people being angry. I just don’t get why even if they’re angry it’s justifiable that you’d attack a church building.”
A national royal commission into child sex abuse has uncovered horrific crimes and cover-ups at churches, schools and other religious and communal organisations throughout Australia.
A separate Victorian parliamentary inquiry was completed in 2013 and found that thousands of children were abused in the state by the Catholic church and other organisations.
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This is another reason I'm going UKIP!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3025812/Muslim-group-links-extremists-boasts-influencing-30-seats-election-acting-kingmaker.html Muslim group with links to extremists boasts of influencing up to 30 seats at the election and acting as 'kingmaker'
- Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) has made the claims
- Says it has been in talks with both the Tory and Labour leadership
- Mend is said to have links to a number of extremists
Published: 19:41, 4 April 2015 | Updated: 19:53, 4 April 2015
Muslim Engagement and Development have reportedly claimed they can influence up to 30 seats at the General election. Pictured Sufyan Ismail
A Muslim group with links to extremists has claimed it can influence up to 30 seats at the election, it has been reported.
Muslim Engagement and Development (Mend) was said to have boasted that they can act as 'kingmakers' when the country goes to the polls.
The group, which wants to let British Muslims fight in Syria without fear of prosecution, has bragged that it is in talks with both the Conservatives and Labour, according to the Daily Telegraph.
At least one election candidate is said to have been approached by a high-profile Muslim and offered campaign money in return for back the group's 'Muslim Manifesto,' the newspaper reported.
Sufyan Ismail, Mend's chief executive, was said to have claimed to be able to influence up to 30 seats during a talk at the Zakariyya Central Mosque in Bolton.
'Right now, we are negotiating with the Labour leadership, we are negotiating with the Tory leadership and insh'allah [God willing] will start with the Lib Dem leadership as well, where we have a list of manifesto pledges,' he reportedly said, according to the Telegraph.
Share this articleShare'The Muslim vote is worth ten ordinary votes because… we are heavily concentrated in a few areas,' he said.
'Anybody who can give any one party 10, 20, 30 seats, like we can, they have to listen to you.'
The group's 48 page manifesto does not make mention of wanting to let British Muslims fight in Syria.
Azad Ali, who has supported the killing of British soldiers, is Mend's director of engagement.
It is also reportedly linked to extremist Abu Eesa Niamatullah and promotes hate preacher Haitham al-Haddad.
The Labour Party reportedly denied the claims that it was negotiating with Mend, according to the Telegraph.
The Conservatives have been contacted by the MailOnline for comment.
+1Mend' chief executive Sufyan Ismail has reportedly claimed that the group is in negotiations with both the Tory and Labour leadership
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Another reason I'm holding my nose and voting UKIP for now, don't forget this Cyril Smith was Labour before he was Liberal:-
EXPOSED: How Liberals offered hush money to hide Cyril Smith's abuse - MP SIMON DANCZUK reveals devastating new evidence that raises deeply troubling questions for David Steel and Nick Clegg- Simon Danczuk, the MP for Rochdale, exposed Smith as a child abuser
- Since those revelations in April 2014, much more dirt has come to light
- Mr Danczuk reveals that after Smith groped a boy at a party, a couple who complained were offered £200 to cover any ‘inconvenience’
- And former police officers revealed they knew about him all along but had looked the other way
By Simon Danczuk For The Daily Mail
Published: 00:52, 4 April 2015 | Updated: 00:53, 4 April 2015
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The touching moment a Sikh man breaks strict religious protocol and removes his turban to help save the life of a five-year-old boy who was seriously injured after being hit by a carBy Liam Quinn For Daily Mail Australia
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A New Zealand student who broke strict religious protocol by taking off his turban to help save the life of a child hit by a car has been heralded as a hero.
Harman Singh, 22, removed his turban to cradle the bleeding head of a five-year-old boy who had been struck on his way to school in Takanini, South Auckland.
Mr Singh heard the accident take place outside his home, before running outside to investigate, according to the NZ Herald.
New Zealand student Harman Singh broke strict religious protocol by taking off his turban to help save the life of a child hit by a car
'I saw a child down on the ground and a lady was holding him. His head was bleeding, so I unveiled my turban and put it under his head,' he said.
'I wasn't thinking about the turban. I was thinking about the accident and I just thought, "He needs something on his head because he's bleeding". That's my job - to help.
'And I think anyone else would have done the same as me.'
Mr Singh and other members of the public stayed with the boy until emergency services arrived. Not long after the accident, the boy's mother arrived.
Another man, Gagan Dhillon, was on his way to work when he saw the accident and stopped to help.
He said: 'There was enough help as there was, but being a Sikh myself, I know what type of respect the turban has. People just don't take it off - people die over it.
'I saw a child down on the ground and a lady was holding him. His head was bleeding, so I unveiled my turban and put it under his head,' Mr Singh said
Sikhism is the only religion in the world which requires its followers to tie a turban.
Sikh men and women do not cut their hair and cover their heads at all times as an expression of respect to their Gurus. The Sikh turban symbolizes discipline, integrity, humility and spirituality.
Turbans become a part of a Sikh’s body and are usually removed only in the privacy of their own house. Normally it is only in the most intimate of circumstances, when bathing the head, or washing the hair.
In 2009, a Sikh police officer in the UK said he had been 'humiliated' by his Greater Manchester Police colleagues after refusing to remove his turban for training and undergoing practices that would breach his faith.
At an employment tribunal, he said the actions of his colleagues left him suffering panic attacks and high blood pressure. He was awarded £12,600 in compensation.
And two years ago a Sikh supermarket worker in Staffordshire said he had been shunned by his own community after having his turban ripped off his head for a joke.
Speaking about the incident, the victim said: 'Taking a turban off a Sikh guy in public is just like hanging him in public.
'After this I was not able to face my colleagues.
'If this happened in India a man would never go to this place again, it is that disgraceful.'
' ... he didn't care that his head was uncovered in public. He just wanted to help this little boy.'
The five-year-old was reportedly walking to school with his older sister when he was hit. He was thought to have suffered life-threatening head injuries, but last night was in a stable condition in the Starship hospital.
A resident nearby said she heard a vehicle skidding, and then a big bang.
Charmaine Tuhaka told how the boy's sister was crying as she and two others held her brother still to prevent him moving and further injuring himself.
Mr Singh said he has been overwhelmed by the praise and support he has received over the past few days
Mr Singh broke strict Sikh religious protocol by removing his turban, but he has been praised by people from around the world for the heroic act.
Since the incident occurred, Mr Singh has received thousands of messages and comments on his Facebook page.
'Great symbol of - we are all human beings. We have our individual beliefs, but at the end of the day to care for one another is key,' Ashleigh Garrett said on Facebook.
'This is why I have high respect for the Sikhism faith. Awesome job mate!,' one person commented.
Mr Singh, 22, is a student living in Auckland and studying to get a business degree
'Humanity before religion. Nice one buddy,' another said.
Mr Singh, from India, is in Auckland studying a business course. He said he was overwhelmed with all the praise.
'Thousands of people have said 'well done'. I was only doing what I had to and trying to be a decent member of the community,' he said.
'Thanks to all who messages, calls... thanks all the worldwide Facebook members who messaged me. I think i just did my job nothing else.'
There are around 20million Sikhs in the world, most of whom live in the Punjab province of India. The 2011 census recorded 432,000 Sikhs in the UK.
Sikhism was founded in the 16th century in the Punjab district of what is now India and Pakistan. It was founded by Guru Nanak and is based on his teachings, and those of the nine Sikh gurus who followed him. It is a monotheistic religion - a belief in one god.
The most important thing in Sikhism is the internal religious state of the individual. It stresses the importance of doing good actions rather than merely carrying out rituals.
Sikhs believe that the way to lead a good life is to:
The Sikh place of worship is called a Gurdwara and the scripture is the Guru Granth Sahib, a book that Sikhs consider a living Guru.
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