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  1. One of these pathetic methods of justification was the following answer from my mum after i asked her what is wrong in a "Insert Caste Here" marrying a "Insert Other Caste Here". OzzySingh: Mummy ji if Sikhism practices equality in all men and women, why do you and bapu only want me to marry a fellow Jatti? OzzySinghs Mummy: Well son, the thing is that a Jatt is a zameendar and farmer. If a Jatt was to marry a Khatri for example it wouldn't work because one has a farming background and the other a merchant background. OzzySingh: That sucks for an answer, face it you and dad have bought into the whole my caste is bigger than your caste. OzzySinghs Mummy: Saliyah, minu Sikhi sakharayah? Fittu mu tere! As touched upon Singhni, the practical solution is to ensure you encourage your (future) children to not buy into the caste bakwaas, something I definitely intend on doing and hope others do too!
  2. I agree with you that the older generations certainly have their share of the blame when it comes to the "caste" issue, but could you please kindly elaborate on the 'endorsement' that you claim comes from Bhangra songs? Thank you
  3. I just read an update on the matter over at: http://sikhsangat.org/1699/two-state-government-probes-and-creating-lot-of-confusions-in-shaheed-jaspal-singh-case/
  4. For me after I signed up to my local gym; the mere fact I had $28 dollars coming out of my bank account every fortnight was more than enough motivation to get me going 4-5 times a week. Or you could try to make it a habit i guess. I mean once you put yourself in a routine it becomes a habit aye?
  5. My condolences go out to Dalbagh Singh Malhi's family and friends. This man was not just a Sikh but a human being and no one but the Timeless and Immortal One has the authority to take someone from this earth. I hope the individual/s responsible are dealt with accordingly. WJKK WJKF
  6. After reading eye-opening articles such as these Mr Singh559 one cannot help but acknowledge how far Science and Technology have brought mankind. Very interesting read!
  7. Don't worry my friend, I will share with you a desi cure that is only known only amongst the desiest of the desi's. It is one of the hundreds of desi techniques passed down through the generations from desi mums to their desi daughters. Forget all about hair grow products and laser treatment, run down to your local desi shop and grab yourself a bottle of desi (no not whisky) mustard oil. Mustard oil a.k.a 'surho da telhe' is the best and only product your desi hair needs. I recommend rubbing mustard oil into your desi scalp no more than 3 times a week. Even better if you can get your desi mum to do it for you. I myself being a desi also get mustard oil rubbed into my hair whilst listening to my proper desi mum go on about the dangers of western culture such as the miniskirts, pubbah/clubbah and kaleh mugging you at night. Top desi points if you leave it in your hair for 2 hours or so before having a shower P.s Try your best to buy Fijian Mustard Oil if possible! (I have found out over the years that mustard oil from Fiji is simply the desi de la desi when it comes to mustard oil)
  8. It seems WLS that you may be lacking some historical knowledge when it comes to Racism. Firstly how would you argue Australia is the most blatantly racist nation in the world when you have countries with troubled pasts such as America. The only racist Australian government endorsed act/implemented would have to be the White Australia Policy. This was restricting essentially the restriction of entry of non-whites between 1901 and 1943-1973 when it was progressively dismantled. Furthermore maybe you should also be informed that Slkhs for example had begun to visit and call Australia their home from the 1890's onwards. And never from that point onwards up until recently did they face discrimination. So yeah to recap that policy only restricted entry to non-white immigrants. I'm not saying it was perfectly fine. Of courses it was wrong, but it is definitely a far cry from the brutal treatment meted out to Black American slaves in Colonial America. Need some clarification? Well I recommend you and anyone else with time to spare to read a very well written history on Australian Sikhs called 'A Punjabi Sikh Community in Australia - from Indian sojurners to Australian citizens'. The entire piece can be found at http://www.apnaorg.com/books/sikhs-in-australia/ I sincerely recommend it, it is a fascinating read. If anyone knows of any other pieces of documented Sikh history in Uk/USA/Canada please share as I would love to read them. Also you mentioned Australian having 'racist laws and policies right up until recently'. Could you please detail which laws and policies you are referring to? I have already detailed the White Australia which was dismantled over 40-50 years ago but are there any others that I'm strangely unaware of? But anyway yes although Australian can be seen as country attempting to deal with its past but so is virtually every other 'Anglosphere Country. In regards to the UK, thank you and everyone else for clarification on the matter but I would like to gather your opinion on the following letter that was forwarded to me. Would you consider the author of the letter below racist? To be honest I don't think the man is asking for too much, rather he makes a good point of what the Muslim community seem to be doing wrong. Thank you Quote: You must be the change you wish to see in the world - Mahatma Gandhi Of all the emails sent and read over the years, this Qantas Airlines Pilot, Captian John Maniscalco, hits it all on the head with one mind boggling effort. Friends, I think this applies to almost EVERY country now! ! ! The paper stated today that some Muslim doctor is saying we are profiling him because he has been checked three times while getting on an airplane. The following is a letter from a pilot. This well spoken man, who is a pilot with QANTAS Airlines, says what is in his heart, beautifully. . . . Read, absorb and pass this on. 'YOU WORRY ME! ' By Qantas Airlines Pilot - Captain John Maniscalco I've been trying to say this since 911 in New York, but you worry me. I wish you didn't. I wish when I walked down the streets of this country that I love, that your color and culture still blended with the beautiful human landscape we enjoy in this country. But you don't blend in anymore. I notice you, and it worries me. I notice you because I can't help it anymore. People from your homelands, professing to be Muslims, have been attacking and killing my fellow citizens and our friends for more than 20 years now. I don't fully understand their grievances and hate, but I know that nothing can justify the inhumanity of their attacks. On September 11 & again early April 2010 in NYC, ARAB-MUSLIMS hijacked four jetliners in the U. S. And tried to explode a carbomb. They cut the throats of women in front of children and brutally stabbed to death others. They took control of those planes and crashed them into buildings killing thousands of proud fathers, loving sons, wise grandparents, elegant daughters, best friends, favorite coaches, fearless public servants, and children's mothers. The Palestinians celebrated, the Iraqis were overjoyed as was most of the Muslim world. So, I notice you now. I don't want to be worried. I don't want to be consumed by the same rage and hate and prejudice that has destroyed the souls of these terrorists. But I need your help. As a rational Australian, trying to protect my country and family in an irrational and unsafe world, I must know how to tell the difference between you, and the Arab/Muslim terrorist. How do I differentiate between the true Arab/Muslim Australians and the Arab/Muslim terrorists in our communities who are attending our schools, enjoying our parks, and living in OUR communities under the protection of OUR democratic government, while they plot the next attack that will slaughter these same good neighbors and children? The events of September 11, 2001 and April 17th 2010, in the U. S. changed the answer. It is not my responsibility to determine which of you embraces our great country, with ALL of its religions, with ALL of its different citizens, with all of its faults. It is time for every Muslim in this country to determine it for me. I want to know, I demand to know, and I have a right to know, whether or not you love Australia. Do you pledge allegiance to our flag? Do you proudly display it in front of your house, or on your car? Do you pray in your many daily prayers that Allah will bless this nation, that He will protect and prosper it? Or do you pray that Allah with destroy it in one of your Jihad's? Are you thankful for the freedom that only this nation affords? A freedom that was paid for by the blood of hundreds of thousands of diggers who gave their lives for this country? Are you willing to preserve this freedom by also paying the ultimate sacrifice? Do you love Australia? If this is your commitment, then I need YOU to start letting ME know about it. Your Muslim leaders in this nation should be flooding the media at this time with hard facts on your faith, and what hard actions you are taking as a community and as a religion to protect Australia. Please, no more benign overtures of regret for the death of the innocent because I worry about who you regard as innocent. No more benign overtures of condemnation for the unprovoked attacks because I worry about what is unprovoked to you. I am not interested in any more sympathy. I am ONLY interested in action. What will you do for Australia - our great country - at this time of crisis, at this time of war? I want to see Muslims waving the AUSTRALIAN flag in the streets. I want to hear you chanting 'Allah Bless Australia' I want to see young Muslim men enlisting in the military. I want to see a commitment of money, time, and emotion to the victims of this butchering and to this nation as a whole. The AFP has a list of over 100 people they want to talk to regarding potential terrorism. Many of these people live and socialise right now in Muslim communities. You know them. . You know where they are. Hand them over to the police, now! But I have seen little even approaching this sort of action. Instead I have seen an already closed and secretive community close even tighter. You have disappeared from the streets. You have posted armed security guards at your facilities. You have threatened lawsuits. You have screamed for protection from reprisals. The very few Muslim representatives that HAVE appeared in the media were defensive and equivocating. They seemed more concerned with making sure that the Australia proves who was responsible before taking action. They seemed more concerned with protecting their fellow Muslims from violence directed towards them in Australia and abroad than they did with supporting our country and denouncing 'leaders' like Khadafi, Hussein, Farrakhan, and Arafat. If the true teachings of Islam proclaim tolerance and peace and love for all people, then I want chapter and verse from the Koran and statements from popular Muslim leaders to back it up. What good is it if the teachings in the Koran are good, and pure, and true, when your 'leaders' are teaching fanatical interpretations, terrorism, and intolerance? It matters little how good Islam SHOULD BE, if huge numbers of the world's Muslims interpret the teachings of Mohammed incorrectly and adhere to a degenerative form of the religion. A form that has been demonstrated to us over and over again. A form whose structure is built upon a foundation of violence, death, and suicide. A form whose members are recruited from the prisons around the world. A form whose members (some as young as five years old) are seen day after day, week in and week out, year after year, marching in the streets around the world, burning effigies of our leaders, burning the Australian/American/British flags, shooting weapons into the air. A form whose members convert from a peaceful religion, only to take up arms against Australia, the USA, United Kingdom, - countries of their birth. A form whose rules are so twisted, that their travelling members refuse to show their faces at airport security checkpoints, in the name of Islam. We will NEVER allow the attacks of Bali, September 11, or any others for that matter, to take away that which is so precious to us: Our democratic rights, freedoms, and fun loving way of life. I want to know where every Muslim in this country stands and I think it is my right and the right of every true citizen of this country to demand it. A right paid for by the blood of thousands of my brothers and sisters who died protecting the very system of government that is protecting you and your family. I am pleading with you to let me know. I want you here as my brother, my neighbor, my friend, as a fellow Australian. But there can be no grey areas or ambivalence regarding your allegiance, and it is up to YOU, to show ME, where YOU stand. Until then. 'YOU WORRY ME! ' I totally agree with this sentiment. I hope you will forget all about the 'political correctness' mandate we've had rammed down our throats, and see if this doesn't ring true in your heart and mind. For Australia, with all the multiculturism we've been told is so important. . .. . Why should we not, as Australians, expect that the thousands of new people immigrating to our country will show their love for our country, their allegiance to our country, their willingness to obey the laws of our country, and acceptance that we are a Christian country? Just because they are able to enjoy exercising their own religion, they should not expect us to be ashamed of ours. They knew Australia was a Christian country when they came here. Why are we erasing Christianity because immigrants who are unwilling to adopt our way of life expect us to? There is just too much insanity in the world, and we have to start taking a stand. I hope you will forward this, so others will feel they are not alone if they are starting to feel the same.
  9. I agree you with you that the problem is indeed arising due to anti social activities by a minority of Pakistani immigrants but as for the solution I reckon the UK needs to see how other countries have dealt with it. Over here take Australia for example, if you do your homework you will realise Australia also is a very diverse country but we have always had a simple yet strong philosophy for the rest of the world "Don't bother coming here if you don't intend to integrate and adapt to our culture. We don't want you! If you do adapt and make the effort, we will accept you as our own" Now some may view that as racist but it actually isn't. What it actually is, is taking a tough stance on people who come to Australia and then suddenly demand special privileges as seen by members of certain minorities in the UK such as the Muslim community. If Britain was seen to be portraying a similar message and would stop giving individuals from minorities leniency in the courts then it wouldn't be an issue. What do you guys think about that?
  10. Hi there Sikh Sangat community, I occasionally like to see what's going on in the UK via the BBC/Guardian/Daily Mail websites and the one thing that never seems to stop cropping up in the news is the vast number of ethnically/racially incidents occurring all over the UK. I believe David Cameron (the Brit PM) last year said in his inaugural speech as PM that multiculturalism had failed. I myself can't help but agree. Infact my family and I moved to Australia quite a few years back. Truth be told one of the main reasons we moved (alongside the awesome weather ) was that the UK had drastically changed for the worse as of recent times. So yeah in a way, I do believe that Multiculralism has failed in the UK. As for the why and how, I will gladly share with the community my personal opinions after having heard some of yours. So my question to everyone reading this is 'Has Multiculralism failed in the UK and if so what could be the main causes for this?' Furthermore is this something that can be improved/turned around? Or maybe I don't know what the hell I'm in about and everything's is cool beans in the UK. Now please dont get me confused or put words in my mouth. I'm not just trying to implicitly imply that this is the work of a certain minority group A or political group B. Also please don't be shy as I would appreciate any and all input as long as it is not blatantly rude and unthoughtful. Thank you for your time!
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