Dear all,
Thanks for your support. The most challenging things in Malaysia from my opinion is there are so many sikh that convert to christian or Islam. In the other way, I never see or even heard anyone converting to sikh.
There also a lot of testimonial in internet, email on their live after converting. As for myself, 2 of my cousin has convert as Muslim. They still contact with me and we have a good relationship (first our family not talking to them. But now we have better relationship). And now my gf will convert to Islam as her current bf is muslim boy. 5 of my schoolmate have convert to Christianity and my english teacher is now a respectable Christian Padri in Malaysia. He is the one that keep slamming our religion in his speech that drive me crazy.
I infact always arguing with my cousin and schoolmate about their choices. I told them stories about our gurus, matyr, teaching etc.
They always use the following facts:-
1. Our religion is considered new to their eyes. No as old as Christian, jew, Islam or even Hindu.
2. Our religion not as logic as Christian or Islam
3. My schoolmate told me there are research that show our religion actually is a mix of hindu and Islam. (I fight with him about this and he never bring it up again).
4. If Sikh, Christian, islam, jew and hindu presented to a baby, they will choose Christian, Islam, jew, Sikh after that hindu. The baby will classified us as second last choices.
5. The fact that our religion is blossoming only in india or indian origin (same like hindu). My ex teacher told me that what about chinese, european, arab etc? why sikhsm unable to attract them after 400 years? there must be something wrong. After that he quote a lot of crab from bible to support that his argument is true.
6. And so many more other argument that sometimes I feel a bit logic. Historian also not so fond with us which if we go to history books, there are a lot of victory/stories in India. But we unable to influence the world.
7. When I told them stories about how our matyr and gurus and how mughal done to our matyr, my school mate simply told me that islam is next version of christian. christian is the original. They also quote that sikhs gurus not that good. They said that there are a lot of killing and raping when we rule western india and kashmir. They said that their information is more reliable because its quote from academic and written source. While our source were lack academic based. It is because of our ruthless and our small number in india that english take a lot of sikh as their soldier. If they take muslim, the muslim will attack the english when they strong. If they take hindu, the hindu will attack the english when they strong. They even said that taking sikhs as army is cheaper because they only eat vegetarian food (Muslim eat meat while only brahmin in hindu is vegeterian).
I still young. 23 years old. Hopefully all brother can give me more advice. As for now, our small comunity in Malaysia still strong. I infact get job because my relationship between sikh brother and sister because my education background not that good.
Thank you again brother.