Hi,
after travelling up and down universitys around england its obvious conversions to other religions especially islam is a massive problem. with most girls knowing very little about their own religion. many indian families concentrate on making money teaching them the basics of sikhi when they are young and then from the age of 16 years of years onwards allow them to do mostly as they please aslong as they do well in education.
Anyone who has been to university in recent years knows how girls act in clubs these days especially sikh girls, most of them get into proper relationships for the first time when they are in university, i.e. with no parents around to set a curfew or anyone that knows you,so you can constantly being around each other and sleeping around each others places etc. all it seems to take is for them to start going out with a boy for the first time in their life and for him to say a few lies about the SGGSJ "guru nanak was a muslim", "guru nanak visited mecca therefore he must be a muslim" ETC ETC and within a few months the girl becomes muslim and turns her back on her family for the rest of her life.
In recent years an amritdhari from west bromwich also left home after being brainwashed to be with a muslim boy, although returned safely home in the end.
sikhi camps and sikh societies have been created but even these dont seem to stop the problem with many consisting of amritdharis anyway.
many parents these days dont know much about sikhi, so it isnt asif these kids can ask there parents for in depth knowledge about sikhi.
most of these girls probably go to the gudwara twice a year on guru gobind singh ji and guru nanak dev jis birthday, sit there for 2 hours listening to katha and kirtan they dont understand and just come back home, not learning anything about sikhi they can relate to.
Obviously some relationships do work out, but most that I have come accross dont. With many now single mothers bringing up children by themselves after divorcing there husbands in council flats, and in one case 1 girl who left for pakistan with her boyfirend and there parents to get married with the borfiend returning by himself, and telling the girls family she had runaway
So how can you combat the problem?
After asking one person they recommended putting together some sort of package with a leaflet about sikhi indepth but kept as brief as possible and maybe some sort of DVD explaining in brief the dangers for young sikh girls leaving for university for the first time, by girls who have had a bad experience before with boys, and some of the tactics used for converting young sikh and also hindu girls. e.g. a boy called mohammed shortneing his name to mohan and wearing a kara just so that he can be with a sikh girl etc etc.
and perhaps leaving them at sikh fairs at universitys or at gudwaras, or somehow sending them to every sikh household in the UK.
at the end of the day many of these girls have little/no understanding of sikhi and a few years down the line are left in bad/abusive relationships that they cant get out of, or if they do get out of it are left with no one to turn to.
I am not an amritdhari but a mona and have only recently started educating myself on sikh philosophy just thought I would share what I have experienced after visiting around universities in the UK.
Sorry If my english is poor, english is not my first language.