KhalsaSingh

i recently attended a smaagam at coventry. from this i have realised how far the panth is from ekta. everyone talks to each others faces about ekta, but in our own jathas we dont care. people are being made to feel as if their amrit is not valid if they have not got naam drirh! they are being banned from entering amrit vela. they get told by youth that they should go pesh, and even the elders say the same. i think this is totally wrong how a people can make people feel as if their amrit is wrong. and to be apart of amrit vela sangat they should need to go pesh! they are being made to doubt that their amrit is valid due to the youth bombarding them with their views. i saw why raag mala is not bani books being sold. can i ask what is being achieved by selling books such as these? do parchar of your Gurus, of shaheeds, but no, lets try brain washing all the youth into believing the jathas view is the only right way. i think this is totally unfair how we do farak between amrit daris and tell them they are not allowed to enter amrit vela. All people have just the same right to jaap naam with other Gursikhs if they have given their head to the Guru. Pooran ji in amritsar does not ban people from amrit vela. Gurmukhs such as bhai jeevan singh ji, bhai rama singh ji never discriminated between Gursikhs. so why are we?

how is ekta or khalsa raaj ever going to be possible if we keep doing this??

infront of each other we give it the 'we care about ekta' but in reality, we only care of our own jathas.

i apologise to those Gursikhs that do not do farak in the jatha, as there are some very chardi kalla people. this is aimed at those who do do farak.

I can't be bothered reading the entirety of this rant but I read enough of it to get the general gist of it. All I can suggest to you is try and open your mind and consider viewing the situation (with reagards to non naam dhrir not being allowed into A/V) in the following way..

Basically, simple fact is the Jatha has certain asools. Consider the western society we live in, it has certain basic rules and principles that it runs off. If you don't conform with them you get squashed...

Now the fundamental issue I see here is to do with nimrata AND whether or not you believe that the asools the Jatha follows are fundamentally BAD for Sikhi... if you disagree with the asools, well your more then welcome to have attended the POchester smagam the week before and stay clear of the evil Jatha.

But before you consider the evil jatha discriminatory mentality, consider the output, Shaheed Bhai Sukhdev Singh Jee Babbar, Shaheed Bhai Anok Singh Jee Babbar, Master Niranjan Singh Jee, Bhai Jeevan Singh Jee, Giani Amolak Singh Jee, Bhai Rama Singh jee.... Consider a bit of balance within your view, could there be another reason within yourself which might explain why you see a horrible thing when looking at Jatha?

Being told you cant do something (e.g. cant go into AmritVela) is an excellent way of sorting out the babies from the smart people. This is where the nimrata comes into play, you can either act like a baby who stomps his feet "its unfair, i dont like it" Kinda reminds me of how you get monay who say the same if they are prevented from doing keertan or take it to the extreem panj di seva.. OR you can have the Gursikh mentality "damn, an obstacle, this and this and this is what I need to do to overcome it, and looking at the outcome from the above list, gives you something to aspire towards. Essentially, your ranting over asked to EARN the right to be allowed to do something, and I think that mentality is exactly why were are in Kaljug now.

Get over it, move on and do what you need to do to get where you want to go or sit at home and stomp your feet.

Not going to even go into if its wright or wrong, as that isnt the issue, if it were right then you'd have something else to rant about instead so I'd rather tackel whats wrong with you thats making you rant...

PS: Not so long ago I was kicked out of Jatha amritvela for not being amridhari. And was also prevented from doing seva on Jatha stage. I could have either been peed off or change my own manmukh thinkinking. Again fundamental issue here is YOUR BELIEF THAT YOU ARE RIGHT, sooner you let that go the better off you'll be. - put your trust in saadh sangat i.e. the above list.

sorry to double post.

still trying to arrange things from Coventry - will have more details hopefull within the hour. sorry for the last minute-ness, will let all know as soon as

IS there coach from leeds tomorrow, can this be confirmed? what time?

owwwww excellent!

shironmi badmashi thuggs! baemukhitothemax!

Create awareness is the first thing to do. Without the Sikh community feeling that the saroops in British Library are their responsibility nothing will happen. Of course I agree with your points above preservation no denying the fact that the correct environment is required ie room temp.

I think this should be done first otherwise we have no basis to campaign for it outside of the Sikh community, we should raise awareness of the issue but specifically looking at creating a proper curation environment i.e. resources such as people to start off with eg. Singhs who have studied practicing curation. Do you know of any?? Then once we have an infastructure in place our efforts will get recognised from the outside and thus make it more difficult to deny us this. Right now its "we want our saroops back" goray says "why, so you can look after them how???" they do not recognise their own beadbi so we should chalenge them on their own playing field.

Lets not forget that the Library with all its controls and preservation still is not the correct place for Guruji's saroops.

Of course never denied that, just accept that those Saroops are being better preserved for the future than anything we can do for them right?

Singh thats what you need to do aswell. Do you feel responsible for the saroops at BL?

I cant honestly say yes to that because if I did i'd be studying curation, then getting a job at the BL to see how they do it, working with people like that beadbi boy jeevan deol to try and change things from the inside out. Once i've learnt enough then go to the community and say "right we need this this and this before we have a chance at getting the Saroops out of their beadbi environment" and thats something your only just recognising but we are only upto the point of making people aware that there is a problem not what we need to do to solve it.

Your posts feel as if you want to chuck a spanner in the works before awareness has been created. With Maharaj Kirpa we can do anything!

Thats all you needed to have said.... good luck with the campaign if you beat around the bush with personal comments. Would it have not made more sense to been a bit more direct in the first place by just have said the above. However I thought the post was just adding a touch of realism as your post didnt really have any sort of proposal as to how to achieve the ultimate goal of getting the Saroops back. "We want them back now, dont care how, dont care what happens to them as a result, we just want them back" Thats the attitude I got from this, could be wrong. Might just like you said have the beaten down mentality to have thought that.

I got an idea. Lets not do anything because the task is too big...we are not capbable of investing in this infrastructure as we are a backward community. Thank God for the progressive Brits, without whom the Sikh religion would have been wiped out!!! The Brits can look after Guru Granth Sahib Ji better than us because they have air conditioning.

NB. KhalsaSingh, I am being a sarcy git!

and SSM, in all your bitching and sarcasm you havn't actually put forward any sort of proposal. You really are simply bitching. You have no goals nor any method of achieving them. Your attitude stinks of the 12yr old child who is insisting his mum takes him to KFC this second even though she has no car and your just sat in the corner screaming.

Never said anything like we are not capable, just recognise you have only mentioned the need for having an infastructure after somone else pointed it out to you, you who's campaigning to get the saroops back yet hasnt put any sort of comment on how to do it, other than your clever sarcasm.

Come out with something useful otherwise go do some simran, might make your grow up. But i forget, your only like 16

God save the Queen!!! Because Sikhs are totally useless.

You reflect the standard Punjabi attitude of put people down before anything even happens. Where's your chardi kala!

Dont forgrt the British Library has 17 saroops. Only a few of them are puratan. We should see all saroops the same. Sikhs must take responsiblity of all saroops. Not all saroops are under climate control.

So a white man can look after Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji alot better than a Sikh. If that means looking after a book then I am sure your right, but looking after Jaagdi Jot Sri Guru Granth Sahib Ji is a Sikh's Duty.

In no way did I deny that it was Sikhs duty to look after Maharaj's saroop, this goes without saying, I agree with all the above. It would have just been nice if either yourself or KharkooSingh actually addressed the 2 points I made.

KharkooSingh tried, despite your both making the typical internet warrior personal comments which I guess was just a cheap way of avoiding the point.

So would it not make sense to invest in that infastructure and have that in place before we campaign to get back the Saroops the brits have??? Wouldn't that ultimately make a case, a challange, point on contention the least bit valid to the every day person outside of the Sikh community?

Maybe either of you will try answer the first post and this 3rd point this time.

And as for my chardikaala, I know its fustrating dealing with an attitude that you percieve to be counter productive but its been my observation that such personal unnecessary comments are from the least chardikaala people who talk about panthic issues yet know little gurbani nor hardly ever get up at A/V let alone know about the persons sharda who they are calling. Challo, guess I did something to diserve it.

R4G Singhs... Can I ask?

1) Do you accept that special provisions need to be made for these saroops that have been stolen by the brits such as correct temperature, avoidance of light (i.e. to maintain colour), restoration of colours where and when required/necessary? Security i.e would be worth quite alot on the open black market to a private collector i.e. how all Guroo Sahibs small arms are being smuggeled out of Hazoor Sahib for the right price.

2) Assuming you accept that given the Saroops condition that they require special provisions such as the above what provisions or attempt at making provisions has the Sikh community or indivudals in the UK put in place to meet these?

Assuming that such provisions are accepted (I dont see how anyone can deny it) and assuming that there is no special provisions (never heard of any Singhs with a properly cooled dark room) its my opinion that given the very fragile nature of the Saroops; given how good Sikhs are at preserving anything historic down to the whitewashing of all the puratan Gurdwara Sahibs because they are too thick and corrupt to preserve origional artwork. That the Saroops should stay in the wrongful hands of the brits simply because they can look after them a hell of alot better than we can... at the expense of the correct Maryada being followed. Shame we cant do both.

I'd rather the Saroops be around forever in 1 piece with decent public access with no Maryada rather than with Singhs who have no knowledge or plan for preservation on this scale, no plan for access, no plan for restoration, and the Saroops eventually end up in tatters in a relativley short amount of time in comparison

>How is that promoting anti-sikh terror groups?

Because this is advertising and promoting the beliefs of this group which has been responsible for acts of murder and terrorism against the Sikh community in india.

Just because it has some messages which conflict with Sikhi does not mean you can file a protest.

Please dont send BBC a message about those links you posted, you will make us all look like fools.

Well if its from me how will that make you or anyone else look like a fool, it will just be me lol Second how is complaining against the advertisment/promotion of a terrorist group foolish?

Thats like saying Jews should get BB

C to ban Christianity because Christianity is the destruction of Judaism.

Maybe, I dont know the history behind that, but you seem to be forgetting that it does not have any impact on the situation being disucssed on this thread. If judists want to bann christanity from the bbc then that is their perogative, I dont know anything about the situation to establish if it is just or not.

The clear difference being highlighted here is that the (dirty) nirankari is an anti sikh organisation on a fundamental level of its 'faith'.

But they have their own philosophy, and BBC is simply stating them.

I would also like to point out the bbcs historic anti sikh coverage over the years that is also quite evident of the bbc itself being anti sikh.

I would also like to point out that the belifs you have pointed out are often taken and are an amalgamation of Sikh and hindoo beliefs for again the wider purpose of groups such as rss/radaswami etc. to dilute sikhi into mainstream hinduism. For example the classic pathetic arguments "its not whats on the outside, its whats on the inside that counts, i dont need to keep my hair im still a sikh, its alright to eat dead bodies of animals im still a Sikh" Groups such as these feed off the beliefs of such individuals who would like to change Sikhi to suite them rather than changing ourselves to what Guroo Sahib asks of his Sikh to be.

According to you guys, all the Christians should get BBC to ban ISLAM NEWS or any information on ISLAM. Since MUSLIMS did so much BEZTI to CHRISTIANS, and Muslims regar

d Jesus as a NORMAL HUMAN AND NOT THE LORD HIMSELF, WHICH IS EXTREMELY AGAINST CHRISTIAN BELIEF AND DOCTRINES.

Huuuuh? Clearly you have some other boggle here? Can I ask that you stick to topic?

God damn it.

Wow your really brave!

Take a look at the following on the bbc bham site.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/ar...g_feature.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/faith/sant...ari/index.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/faith/fait...ity/index.shtml

Given the obvious logic the bbc is using here is that I supose if there was a large nazi community living in bham would they put up a website advertising/promoting their beliefs. "Aryan nation, pure blood, supreme race etc" Im sure they could tart it up in the way they clearly have done for the dirty nirankaris to make it sound all happy happy joy joy.

Does anyone have any reference for a bbc complaints page?

Any ideas on a template letter than can be written?

I was thinking as a way to make the beeb stop this anti sikh business is to have so many complaints going into them, each and every one has to be addressed and replied too, this takes time and money. With such a large volume of complains going in the administration costs could force them to reconsider? (Obviously cost of admin for (dirty) nirankari complints vs Sikh complaints) Or how about another protest? Camp outside bbc bham (while its still there).

What other benefits are there to Sri Harmandir Sahib (not golden temple sorry just a minor correction that its not called by its name), other than "Global Media Attn". To what end does this media attn include?

I hope you can understand when in a climate of Sri Harmandir Sahib being attacked 4/5 times over the past 30 years Sikh would have resevations about allowing non sikhs to engage in any so called 'promotion' as it has often been used as a guise for other activities.

Secondly I personally don't quite agree in this whole media promotion wonders of a world milarkieee.. I feel that Sri Harmandir Sahib should not be viewed/used as a tourist attraction or promoted as such. It should only be promoted and used for the manner in which any Gurdwara Sahib should i.e. to be used to enhance everyones spirituality, used to attain waheguroo. Not be promoted as "oooohhh what a beatiful attraction, wow what nice colours, ok trip over seeya later bye bye". However at the same time tourists visiting Sri Harmandir Sahib for whatever reason non Sikhi related could then possibly be exposed to Gurmat and brought closer to Sikhi.

So im not too sure myself. But I don't know if the current climate at Sri Harmandir Sahib would promote this unless somone is specifically going there for Gurmat. i.e. sevadars doing lectures on history, beauty of Gurbani in english and other languages so that the tourists can be exposed to Gurmat beyond what they can see.

What's the use of having Shaheed's pictures all over the Gurdwaras?

Ever heard of the term "Out of sight, out of mind"?

Coming back to the issue......

Has anyone contacted the BBC to report bomb scares and death threats against gurdwaras and Sikh leaders?

Don't let this go unheard!

given the beebs historican bias anti sikh coverage i dont think they would take it serious.

I think somone should get the death threats, scan them and put them online as evidence. we only hear about the threats against the play writer, lets do better than "i heard, he said, bbc said"

Theres about a million and 1 singhs in bham, tell me you have all aranged some sort of protest. get all the sikhs from the university, post it out on the bham news groups. all of you meet there and line up.

This is a public forum, I know I should take my own advice but please think before you speak. Could you imagine when public threats against her life are being made and what were to happen if somone then took her out? This forum would be shut down faster than the time it takes bin laden to tie his topi.

We must maintain utmost respect for guroo sahib, however lets try a dimplomatic approach as to imediately resort to violence before exploring other options would only play into peoples like this hands i.e. see look what they saying, they are fundamentalists and terrorists.

Forget petition, organize a protest outside the event, inciting racial hatred, form a line preventing anyone from goin to view the show. chain each other to each other and form a line.

there seems to be a bit about sikhs, its on now.

somone record and put it online?

It was really good and had lots of momentum but your not hearing about any new developments/progress. Hows things going, 150 UK mp's had signed the motion etc.. but whats the latest? is there a website where we can check for updates.

I find this once again disturbing and disgusting...

when will some progress be made by the GSGHS sevadars. You continue to promote your programs based on who's coming, come to our program, we have sant baba bhai sahib baba bhai bla bla singh coming.

This constant promotion and having programs fundamentally promoted and based on whos coming rather than as an opperunity to progress towards guroo jee, i.e come for the kirtan the gurbani; makes these actions anti gurmat.

I ask Admins, to block posts promoting such programs given the misinformation and clelver tricks by these 'sevadars'

I really am perplexed as to why no progression is being made towards a more gurmat approach to these programs i.e. increasing ones rehat, bani etc... not basing programs on whos cominng but for the keertan. Have these organisers even followed the first thing guroo sahib has asked of his sikhs before they go off organising smagams?

really admin, block their posts, it really stinks.

oh and all this "we have bhai sahib bhai baba harpreet singh coming" well think for a sec how that might make him feel if he reads this. is this not some sort of worhsip to him? does it not occur to one that this is just blowing up ones ego?

please dont come out with the argument "well thats a test", im not disputing that as such comment has no impact on what im talking about which is if the action is right or not, not if its a test.

Admin jee, could you possibly implement some sort of javascript counter that shows how much you need each month and how much has been donated. i.e. automatically goes up and resets after each month.

like a general statistics page would be nice, possibly showing:

How many users of waheguroo network

how many of these users donated (without names of course)

or perhaps showing users who do not donate :-)

it would be good that all users cannot download without logging in before hand so you can identify somone who is perhaps greedy and malicious i.e. potentially downloading alot of data to raise the server bill for the rest of the sangat out of shere spite, or perhaps is just a cheapskate and downloads alot but never donates.

once identified, perhaps have a polite word with this person and if they are not genuine then name and shame.

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

diwali means festival of lights

sikhs have 2 names for this day

bandi chor divas

AND

diwali

so sikhs do celebrate diwali

bhula chuka maf

Waheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa!

Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!!

>diwali

>so sikhs do celebrate diwali

bhula chuka maf

diwali is a hindu festival celebrating hindu deities. can u plz explain the significance of this to sikhi. as sikhs do not recognise hindu dieties as being forms of god or to be celebrated.

sikhs do celebrate guroo sahibs bandi chor in the same way hindus celebrate diwali however diwali is celebrated for the above reason. therefore the contradiction sticks out like a sore thumb. can u plz explain?

i dont think anyone ere has any plans for dival as sikhs dont celebrate divali, however they do celebrate guroo hargobind sahibs bandi choor which is on the same day.

v good, u know its a kurait to not give daswand, i know some ppl disagree but u always hearing 'moderate' weirdos saying guroo nanak dev jees primary three principles. and in this case daswand is really important. having said alot of gurdwaras dont do anything to benefit sikhi so u shudnt give to them. khalsa aid, brit sikh counsil, other charities, sponsoring shaheed families, theres 2 much to do.

and remember, absolute minimum is 10%

nxt sunday final solution may be one to watch, thats it im off. bbc is based wat did u expect!

bbc are full of <admin-profanity filter activated>, 1 of the reasons they glorify her is because they practically helped the govt kill sikhs in their biast reporting which they now cannot 1) admit to 2) apologise for.

and then they wonder why sikhs might not be too happy with bbc, any time we try and approach them to make a show on important issues to sikhs we get the finger. and now they dont like it that we have done it ourselves, i mean look at this network of sites. bbc missed out on screwing us out of more money.

when we do get a show or something, it ususally pretty <admin-profanity filter activated> i mean look at that "sikhs in the city" nothing to do with sikhi, just ppls own personal opinions rather than what sikhi says. that show took the mic, i think that was made just to bad the respect for guru granth sahib campaign given that anti sikh jeeven guy who disrespected bani on tv for us all to see (did u see him wash hands, take shoes off, use rumals, cover head?)

bbc r wack. we should make progression towards exposing bbc's misdeeds towards sikhi

i mean look at their so called visakhi publication last yr, had nothing 2 do with sikhi but everything to do with bs punjabi culture bs

hey all

just wanted to ask a few questions

Is it obligatory as in guru granth sahib to hate muslims and always go against them?

Did Guru nanak devji prayed and paid a vist to the holy kabah in makkah?

Although their is counter attack between parties that Emperor Aurangzeb and Guru Gobind singh ji were either good or bad. Sikh community support that guru gobind singh and his people was a good man, but history shows that their were also some wrong doings from the sikh side that also angered muslims into a much fierce battle. So why is it when you ask a sikh, he always says muslims did wrong at that times, but were'nt both sides the equal and both sides committed the wrong doings

sorry missed 1 point:

Are sikhs to wear their turban and kerpal till the day all muslims dies??

no, sikhs will wear their kirpans till they day they die.

hey all

just wanted to ask a few questions

Are sikhs to wear their turban and kerpal till the day all muslims dies??

Although their is counter attack between parties that Emperor Aurangzeb and Guru Gobind singh ji were either good or bad. Sikh community support that guru gobind singh and his people was a good man, but history shows that their were also some wrong doings from the sikh side that also angered muslims into a much fierce battle. So why is it when you ask a sikh, he always says muslims did wrong at that times, but were'nt both sides the equal and both sides committed the wrong doings

Is it obligatory as in guru granth sahib to hate muslims and always go against them?

Did Guru nanak devji  prayed and paid a vist to the holy kabah in makkah?

Yes, due to the fact which non muslims are discriminated against i.e. not allowed into meccah, guroo sahib disguised himself as a muslim to gain entry. He did not pray to the kabbah but to god. In fact he discouraged the pilgrimage made to mecca, a muslim named jivan kicked him for pointing his feet towards meccah. guroo sahib replied where shall i put my feet where god does not exist? furthermore when guroo sahibs feet were kicked and moved, the kabbahs position moved, spinned to be precise.

Although their is counter attack between parties that Emperor Aurangzeb and Guru Gobind singh ji were either good or bad. Sikh community support that guru gobind singh and his people was a good man, but history shows that their were also some wrong doings from the sikh side that also angered muslims into a much fierce battle.

really, can you give an example. Off the top of my head i can only think of a few things which would have made the muslims angry, such as guroo sahib propogating a non islamic faith, equal rights for all, equality for women. Given the crimes against humanity comited by the muslim regimes at the time, i can see how a force to counter their evil actions would anger them.

So why is it when you ask a sikh, he always says muslims did wrong at that times, but were'nt both sides the equal and both sides committed the wrong doings

no, they did not. sikhs did not kidnap women, force feed brahmins hallal meat, comit several countr

y wide hollocosts, chop heads off of children to be used as currency. however the muslims did