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  1. I was just thinking the other day... Why is that I have never heard of any Muslims tied their beard? I guess sikhs must be more smarter and advanced than them.. even tho we are nothing compare to their population. But I have heard not one tie their dhaRee up out of millions of them who keep dhaRee
  2. I don't think you know the real reason someone gets the title gyani infront of their name. There's degree you get from university in punjab its called "gyani". you have to get that in order to have gyani put infront of your name. Just like 'Gyani Sant Singh Jee Maskeen"
  3. I suspected it was a hoax so I did googled it. This is what I found. oh btw this thing came out in Oct 2001 so you are bit late even if it was the real thing http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data...vivor.hoax.html
  4. do you even know why he was called a "Gyani"????
  5. I plegde $1! come on people WE need to build a DERA for SANT JEE!
  6. Read the article.Its sad. you know wat sad thing is that Indian Government Makes Sikhs Look like either fools in India or they call them terrorists. But wat do you call the Indian government who's doing all this to its minorities?
  7. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?...MNGFV6530M1.DTL http://www.akj.org/phorum/read.ppa?f=3&i=16236&t=16236 Gonasika, India -- The students singing a timeless Hindu hymn in this remote tribal village have no idea that they are pawns in a political experiment driven by ancient Indian hatreds and funded by donated U.S. dollars. To pupils and parents, most of whom are "tribals," or aboriginal peoples, the school is a ray of hope in a life of desperate poverty. "My family sent me here because they couldn't afford me," said Dyneswar Juang, a seventh-grader. "Here I get everything for free. I have a future." But human rights organizations in the eastern state of Orissa say the school and others like it are political tools in the hands of India's foremost Hindu nationalist organization, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). In the past several years, the RSS and its allies, collectively called the Sangh Parivar, have built a network of more than 30,000 Hindu religious schools, called shishu mandirs or "temples of learning." Most are located in remote tribal regions where government schools are few. Using the promise of free education and housing, the shishu mandirs have enrolled more than 5 million impoverished youths, including many orphans. In class, students are "subtly indoctrinated into the RSS Hindutva ideology," said Sudarshan Das, president of Agami Orissa, an umbrella organization of nongovernmental organizations w orking with tribal peoples. Hindutva, or "Hinduness" is a nationalist ideology that asserts history, science, politics, economics and other subjects should be viewed from a Hindu perspective. Hindutva proponents say Islam and Christianity have divided India and caused its decline from its glorious past. With India facing Islamic separatists in Kashmir and aggressive proselytizing by evangelical Christians, the RSS believes their sovereignty and identity are under a renewed threat and Hindus should turn secular India into a Hindu state. Subash Chauhan, the Orissa state secretary of a group that runs hundreds of shishu mandirs, concedes the schools' goal is to "make sure the Hindutva mood is created in Orissa." In a recent report, Teesta Setalvad, a civil rights activist, chronicled how the shishu mandirs promote anti-Islamic and anti-Christian sentiment while lionizing the RSS. Students spend hours studying Hindu religion and culture and their history textbooks recount how "Muslim invaders killed our (Hindu) forefathers like flies." Willy D'Costa, national secretary of the Indian Social Action Forum, an organization associated with Christian groups, says the Sangh Parivar also is leveraging the devotional fervor of the students and using them as shock troops in violent anti-Muslim and anti-Christian pogroms. They point to the Hindu-Muslim riots that rocked the western state of Gujarat in March 2002. Witnesses and human rights groups reported that tribal areas where the RSS was most active experienced the worst violence. Paramdara Pillay, a teacher at Juang's school, says his colleagues in Gujarat were "forced to send their students to fight or else they would have lost their jobs and funding for their schools." Significantly, a sizable chunk of funding comes from Indians living in the United States, says Vijay Prashad, director of International Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and a founder of FOIL, an umbrella organization of Indian leftists. "At least $6 million has been officially raised in the U.S and sent to these schools (by) U.S. branches of Sangh Parivar organizations," said Prashad, who along with several scholars and activists co-authored a report on such funding for South Asia Citizen's Watch, a human rights group based in France. "Often the funds are raised through charitable fronts, (and) donors have no idea where their money is going." In India, fundamentalist religious organizations have long used foreign- funded schools to groom adherents. Saudi-funded Muslim madrassas are fertile recruiting grounds for extremists in Kashmir and elsewhere. And the Sangh Parivar accuses Western-funded Christian evangelists of using schools to lure vulnerable groups into Christianity. But what makes the Sangh Parivar's schools different is the fact that nearly all of the enrolled students are not Hindus, according to Maj. A. Somnath, of the Dalit Solidarity People's Party. "Because they need our votes, they are trying to make us Hindus," Somnath said, referring to tribals and Dalits (untouchables) at the bottom of India's caste system. "It's a kind of social engineering that has very dangerous effects." The debate reflects an age-old social schism that has long haunted Indian politics. About 2,000 years ago, Indian society organized people into a hierarchy of castes based on "ritual purity.'' Brahmins (priests) were followed by Kshatriyas (warriors), Vaisyas (traders), and Sudras (peasants). Tribals and some non-tribal groups, who now call themselves Dalits, were considered too impure to belong to any caste and became untouchables. Excluded from mainstream Hindu life, the untouchables developed their own system of worship. Tribals typically follow animist beliefs, praying to trees and stones while Dalits pray to supernatural forces and Earth goddesses. Since tribal religions have no religious texts or grand places of worship, they are often ignored by other faiths. The Sangh Parivar insists that tribals and Dalits - as well as Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains -- are simply waylaid Hindus. "This is not conversion but assimilation," said Ajay Sahni, executive director of the Institute for Conflict Management in New Delhi." And despite the theological arguments, he says the goal is completely political. Tribals and Dalits make up about 35 percent of India's 1 billion inhabitants. Traditionally, they have joined India's Muslims, who represent just 12 percent of the population, in voting against the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, a Hindu nationalist party. With new elections on Tuesday, pollsters say the BJP needs tribal and Dalit votes. Das says the shishu mandirs convert tribal students to Hinduism by teaching them to worship Hindu deities, and break tribal affinities with Muslims and Christians by demonizing both communities. Chauhan says the assimilation of tribals into Hinduism is less socially disruptive than their conversion into a foreign religion like Christianity. He says Christian groups have made India a prime target for their proselytizing and that about 2,000 tribals have been converted in recent months. "If Hindus do not unite, we will soon become a minority in our own country," said Chauhan. Though census figures do not support his argument -- India's Hindu population has held steady for decades at about 82 percent -- the Sangh Parivar has been effective at using it to rally tribals. "Yes, we are Hindus," said Lahuri Juang, Gonasika's tribal priest, who minutes later performed an animist sacrifice that involved beheading a chicken and anointing his forehead with its blood. All around Juang, the cracked mud huts and bloated bellies indicated that his village is not on anyone's development map. There is almost no sign of modern life anywhere -- except for an official notice advising residents how to update their voting records on a wall in the community warehouse filled with grain. < br>With elections looming, Das worries that the kind of violence that rocked Gujarat could break out here. In the past year, according to local police, several churches have been torched in the state and at least 30 Hindu- Christian clashes have occurred. Local police, human rights groups and opposition parties have accused Sangh Parivar of complicity in the violence. "The Hindu right does not want any rival religion in India," said Maj. Somnath, the Dalit activist. "They tried to destroy Buddhism all those years ago, now they are doing it to us."
  8. Its perfectly fine to read Guroo Granth Sahib by anyone as long they follow all the rules like respecting Guroo Granth Sahib Jee as Guroo.
  9. go buy DvdX copy or go to filesearching.com and search for "dvdxcopy" and download dvd X copy platinum ( the second link its like 13mb file). email me I'll send u the crack for it.
  10. Wasn't this "R Dorothy Wayneright" Deleted from Sikhsangat before like sometime last year? I found these posts of this <banned word filter activated>. do you remember him/her ? I do http://forums.waheguroo.com/index.ppa?act=...hl=entry10098 http://forums.waheguroo.com/index.ppa?act=...4&hl=wayneright Do you notice something strange in these posts? R Dorothy Wayneright is no where to be found because his/her posts were all deleted by the admin. So Singho Apna Time Waste Na Karo with this person!
  11. To my knowledge this video has been stopped with efforts of Bhai Simanjeet Singh Maan. I read it in a punjabi newspaper.
  12. My Guroo told me not to eat it. Thats only one best logic I can think of. All the meat eaten by all the people is just for taste. NO such thing as a "NEED OF MEAT" its all "WANT OF MEAT". OUR Guroo Jee drank water, used to breath air, and ate plants and seeds. I try to do the same. I don't consider it a sin because My Guroo Sahib didn't. Yup if you eat meat on purpose one would be a sinner for sure. I can bet you if most of you Non- vegs had to kill your own meat, chop its head off, peel the skin off and see all that blood coming out and then wash your blood bathed clothes. you'll never eat meat again in your life.
  13. We don't live according to 'Jainies' because we are Sikh and so were our Guroo's. Thats what you are supposed to follow the way our Guroo Sahib lived their lives without meat. Simple as that. Plus all Herbivorous animals have Square teeth. And so do you and me. All the Carnivorous have sharp Teeth so they can eat meat. Again we are not killing any living organism on purpose just to get milk from the cow. Again None of the Guroo Sahib's said we couldn't drink it either. There are tons of examples of milk feeding in gurbani. like this one (Forgive me Guroo Jee for this) Its doesn't say MEAT KHAYO GOBINDAY..... you get the pic. About the cookies and cake thing. My mom makes both at home. As a matter of fact I m gona go have a cookie right no w... And she makes awesome cake Is it really hard to Follow the way Guroo Sahib lived their lives? This is to All the non-vegs.. Next time you are about to eat meat think about your Guroo Sahib (if you actually believe in him) would he be eating the same meat you are about to have?
  14. Singh Jee all Gelatin is made from animals. The 'Gelatin' made from plants has a different name to it. Its called "PECTIN". ps: I used to get my starburst (may be once skittles) from UK LOL . Some candies you get over there don't have any animal products in it.
  15. Where did u hear that Guroo Gobind Singh Jee: " Dharey Kes Pahul Bina Bhaikhee Moorakh Sikh" "One Who Keeps Hair Without Taking Amrit Pahul Is a Fake and Stupid Sikh" Need anymore proof? or is that good enough singh jee? the above tuk is for people who keep their hair their whole life without taking amrit. I don't think it applies to people who are working on keeping their hair and slowly working towards taking amrit. Mere Veer 'Kandola' The Degh is supposed to prepared by an amritdhari sikh as per Sikh Rehit Maryada. So It would be only fair to be served by an amritdhari as well. I am not so sure about the Chaur Sahib Dee seva. I really don't think you are breaking any rules. But like I said I am not so sure.
  16. Waheguroo Jee Kaa Khalsa Waheguroo Jee Kee Fateh! Singho Te Singhnio LA smagam from Nov 2003 is finally up on Keertan.net
  17. singh jee can u resize them and put the thunbnails on there please...
  18. about failing the exam thing. you should start going to the gym regularly. Hit the treadmill and run 2 miles everyday atleast because the army is going to make you do that. you are gona have to take the physical test which requires you to run those 2 miles in about 16 mins or less. If you can practice running at like a local school college track then that'd be even better. you'll be required to do roughly 52 push ups in about 2mins.. practice that you'll be required to do about 58 sits up I think thats also within 2 mins. you should skip a day wen u do all of the above thats wat the personal trainers recommend. If you want to work out everyday then do upper body one day and lower boddy another day. if you start practicing all of above regularly you'll be in a good shape in about a month or 2 and then the Army can't say you are not physically fit .... just my 2 cents..
  19. Vegas video wasn't made by sony it was originally owned by 'Sonic Foundry' which was bought by sony and now sony owns all the sonic foundry softwares. I 'd recommend Vegas video over pinnacle. i use it myself. and for audio recording/editing use now Sony's 'Sound Forge'.
  20. Khalistani Singh I agree with you. Bhagat Singh never really believed in God all his life. Right before they were going to hang him he came in contact with Bhai Sahib Bhai Randheer Singh Singh Jee inside the jail and He expressed his fear of death to Bhai sahib. Read Jail Chithiya(n). OR Bhai Randheer Singh Jee's Auto biography. Bhagat Singh did change his views some what about God at the last minute. I don't agree that he fought for SIKH PANTH. He did fight for the freedom of Hindustan. Making him a religious freedom fight would be wrong. I don't see see much difference between Bhagat Singh, Raaj Guru and Sukhdev. They all fought the British government in India for India's Freedom.
  21. Oh YEH! they have. Bill Clinton always used to send his best wishes on gurpurabs. He actually cared about the way sikhs were treated in india. Harbhajan Singh Yogi was almost like one his advisors. I heard that from one of Harbhajan singh's Body guards. Bush is an <banned word filter activated> compare to Bill Clinton. US had few billion dollars of surplus in the budget when Clinton left office. And When Bush Came into office He spent it all giving TAX CUT to all the rich people or other ways. And now US is in 500 Billion Dollars deficit this year alone.That amount is not including what he wasted on Iraq war which is in billions also. You think people still gona vote for him? yeh right Bush and his administration lied to the US public that US needed to go to war with Iraq for very good reasons. And main reason he said was that Iraq had "WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION" (we knew he was wrong back then too). It should be called Weapons Of Mass Disappearance And even now in his latest speech Bush Calls it "Weapons Of Mass Terror" you see how he has changed it. I can go on and about this <banned word filter activated>. But I'll stop here..
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