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How did you have time to put all these links?

Am going to read some of these books

BBC Question Time from Barking earlier this year. Watch from 2 minutes.

Disgusting

These books by Ramana Maharishi seem interesting. But does anyone know of anything similar written by a Sikh?

Don't know how anyone can believe in Sharia law

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Rising Muslim population in Indian Urban cities and increasing fundamentalism in Hindu will lead to civil war in India . It all will begin with new Hindu devta called Modi deva .

Why do you call him 'Modi Deva'?

He's spoken the truth

Only two Sikh can have Anabd Karaj

Anyone know when Giani Ji is next coming to UK?

Ridiculous. He's just one player in a team. Cricket is just a game.

I haven't seen the video yet, but seems like they are doing good work.

Good work!

http://www.sikhchic.com/columnists/sikhaussie_awarded_medal_of_the_order_of_australia Sikh-Aussie Awarded Medal of The Order of Australia by MANPREET KAUR SINGH

Being Australia Day, January 26 is always celebrated as a red letter day in the country. But for Sikh-Australians, this day in 2012 made history, as S. Bawa Singh Jagdev’s name appeared proudly in the roll of Australia Day Honours. Awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM), he has become the first ever Sikh-Australian to be bestowed with one of the country’s higher civilian honours.

“I truly feel humbled to be the recipient of this prestigious award,” said Bawa Singh. “I may be the first Sikh or anyone from the subcontinent to receive this honour, but I personally feel that the award belongs to all those who helped me and worked alongside with me over the years to solve our community problems, of which there were many, and achieve what as a community we have accomplished. I thank them all.”

He is the Secretary of the Sikh Council of Australia, and has worked passionately to protect and gain recognition for Sikh rights, alongside working on human rights and humanitarian issues.

Already a recipient of the ‘Life time Achievement in Community Services Award’ from the Community Relations Commission of New South Wales ("NSW"), the Sydney-based Sardar reflected, “Life has been an amazing journey for me thus far, having lived a comfortable life across four continents. I was born in Punjab, educated in the United Kingdom, worked in Africa and finally settled in Australia.”

An academic who has taught in schools and colleges in various countries, Bawa Singh is one of the pioneers of recent Sikh migration into Australia. Born in a small village called Lohara (in district Jalandhar, Punjab), and earning his professional qualifications at Panjab University, he initially migrated to Kenya in 1959.

After further education at University of Exeter (United Kingdom), he returned to Kenya, only to find an inclement political situation there. So in 1975, he, his wife and two children moved to Sydney, adopting Australia as their new homeland.

He recalls: “When we first came here in 1975, there were just a handful of Sikh families in the Sydney metropolitan area.” So along with some friends, he helped establish the very first Sikh gurdwara in Revesby, Sydney, followed soon by the Sikh Mission Centre at Australia. In the early 1990s, he advocated strongly for the recognition of the Kirpan, defending the right of every amritdhari Sikh to wear it in public. He worked actively with the Community Relations Commission and the Premier’s office, which resulted in the Knife Legislation of NSW being amended in 1998, granting exemption to Sikhs, so they could carry their article of faith without breaking the law.

With a vision for the future, Bawa Singh helped establish an umbrella body for Sikhs in Australia, named the Sikh Council of Australia Inc. Under the auspices of this organisation, he was instrumental in organising the first World Sikh Conference in Sydney in 2004, lobbied for Sikh employees of Public Works Department and also Department of Corrective Services, to be allowed to wear the Sikh articles of faith at their workplace. He was a strong advocate for Sikh banana farmers in Woolgoolga (in northern NSW) who were going to be displaced by a new highway project and after numerous meetings with the authorities and submissions to the Senate enquiry, he helped the banana farmers receive an adequate monetary compensation.

Currently, he is involved in lobbying for consumer rights over misleading food labelling - whilst some foods in supermarkets come with a ‘halaal’ certification, others are not certified as ‘non-halaal’, depriving the consumer the right to choose.

Perhaps his most significant contribution came by way of gaining recognition of the Sikh religion as a separate religion in Australia. For instance, an Anand Karaj performed at a gurdwara was not formally recognised since Sikh celebrants didn’t have any formal authority. Realising this, Sardar Bawa Singh (through the Sikh Council of Australia) wrote to the Attorney General, who corrected the anomaly. The Sikh Council of Australia has since been authorized by the Australian government as the nominating authority for the appointment of the marriage celebrants for the Sikhs.

It also goes to the credit of Bawa Singh that, alongside addressing the issues of significance to Sikh-Australians, he has lobbied actively for other communities too. He has made submissions for a ban of smoking, defended the right of Muslim girls to wear the hijab to school, supported the Hindu community when their temple at Auburn was attacked, and raised funds for victims of disasters like the tsunami in 2004 and the floods in Pakistan. It is only befitting, then, that he has now become the first ever Sikh Australian to be awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia.

I suppose, at least he has done lots of good things as well. But, makes it more surprising what he said about dastaar.

He should join Punjab Police. :biggrin2: :biggrin2: :biggrin2: :biggrin2:

No, he shouldn't be in any police force!

Sangat Ji,

Please could anybody provide an Update on this Issue.

Are there are Locals here that have heard any further developments?

I have searched online for any more info...nothing new has been documented.

Thank you.

11 April 2014

http://www.bbc.co.uk...-leeds-26990190

Bradford Sikhs' victory in meat plant battle

A Sikh community in Bradford has won a legal battle to stop a meat processing plant being built next to a temple.

Council planners approved proposals for the plant by food firm Pakeezah on Leeds Road in August.

Worshippers at the nearby Guru Gobind Singh Gurdwara temple applied to the High Court to halt the plans as many of them are strict vegetarians.

Bradford Council has now revoked planning permission after taking legal advice.

Council leader David Green said: "We don't want to spent council tax payers money on legal action when we have been advised that we are unlikely to be successful.

"I believe the planning committee made a valid decision under planning legislation, but I think it's a fact that not enough weight was given to other legal duties."

'Undermining worship'

Lawyers acting for the Sikhs lodged an application for a judicial review in December.

They said the proximity of the temple's kitchen to the proposed meat plant "undermined the sanctity of worship".

Ranbir Singh, assistant president of the temple, said: "We don't eat meat. If the plant was near the Gurdwara, our [people] wouldn't like it.

"We put pressure on the council and they changed their minds. David Green has helped us a lot."

Supermarket chain Pakeezah was contacted but declined to comment.

Previously, its operations manager Amjad Majid said the firm had not intended to "offend anyone".

http://timesofindia....w/33552759.cms? UK open to Sikh as head of armed forces, judiciary: David Cameron

Kounteya Sinha,TNN | Apr 10, 2014, 02.21 PM IST

LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron has for the first time said that UK is open to having a Sikh as the head of its armed forces or as a chief justice in its judiciary.

Hosting a Baisakhi celebration at 10 Downing Street, Cameron heaped high praise on "the hard working" Sikh community in UK and invited more from the community to enter British parliament.

Referring to the "hard work so many Sikhs now do in our parliament," Cameron said "Not enough - I'm proud that we have in Paul Uppal a British Sikh on Conservative benches, Paul is here working hard, but we shouldn't rest until we see more British Sikhs on green benches and red benches, until we see more British Sikhs at the top of every one of our organisations - whether that is our army, or our judiciary - not because we should believe in tokenism, but because we believe, I believe, that we won't access the talent of our country unless we demonstrate that everyone from every background and faith can get to the top of any organization that they choose and that is so important for our country".

According to Cameron, British Sikhs "have been an absolute model in terms of integrating into our communities and playing a role in our communities; whether it is in our armed forces, whether it is serving in government, whether it is working in business, whether it is representing us brilliantly on the cricket field, there's hardly an area of natural life where British Sikhs haven't made a huge impact".

Cameron hosting the fourth Baisakhi party in 10 Downing Street also recalled the recent floods that devastated parts of UK.
He said "We had people from across the country who had shown extraordinary public service in the floods earlier this year, and we had then Sikhs who had gone out of their way to travel across our country and help people, whether they were in Somerset, whether they were in the Thames Valley, whether they were in East Anglia, who needed help. "Serving the community, putting back into the community is something deep in the heart of all British Sikhs," he said.

The Sikh vote bank will be a major factor in the next general election in UK in 2015.

Britain's 2011 census says UK is home to nearly 4.3 lakh Sikhs of which 4.2 lakh live in England alone. The community is also very politically active.

Around 3 in 4 Sikhs have voted in different elections in the last 4 years. Around 2 in 3 voted in the 2010 general elections.

ttp://www.thetelegr...rl__10_/?ref=mr Girl is victim of assault on Allerton footpath by masked attacker

By Rob Lowson, T&A Reporter Friday 11th April 2014

A man in his 40s suspected of sexually assaulting a ten-year-old girl on a footpath in Bradford was being hunted last night.

Detectives yesterday released details of the attack which happened as the girl was walking along a path by St Matthew’s Field in Allerton.

The suspect, whose face was covered by a scarf, then walked off towards St Matthew’s Primary School in Saffron Drive, while the victim ran home.Police have described the attacker as Asian, in his 40s, about 5ft 9in tall and of large build.

He was wearing light blue trousers with a number on, a black hooded waterproof jacket, also featuring a number on it, and a black woolly hat.Specially-trained police officers have been liaising with the victim since the offence was reported to have taken place at about 3.30pm on Tuesday, March 25. Inquiries are continuing to try to establish the circumstances of what happened.

Detective Chief Inspector Adrian Taylor, who is leading the investigation, said: “The victim has described seeing people in the area just before she was attacked, and we would be keen to hear from anyone in the area at that time, or anyone who might have seen a man acting suspiciously in the immediate area.

“We would also like to hear from anyone who saw a man of similar description acting suspiciously in the Allerton area at about 7pm on April 1.

“The victim is receiving support from specially-trained officers, and local neighbourhood officers are carrying out reassurance patrols.”

Anyone with any information should contact Detective Sergeant Simon Leek at Protective Services, Crime, on 101, or Crimestoppers, anonymously, on 0800 555111.

OTA meets with Sikh truckers to address shared issues

2014-04-09

TORONTO, Ont. -- The Ontario Trucking Association (OTA) and members of the Sikh trucking community have come together to address common concerns.

The two groups met over the weekend at the OTAs offices. More than 40 representatives from the OTA and the Canadian Sikh Association (CSA) participated. The Sikh drivers expressed concerns about their rights to wear their turbans, however much of the discussion focused on issues that are universal across the industry, the OTA reports.

Trucking is trucking, in the end. Most of the issues raised are the same everywhere, regardless of carrier size or the ethnic origin of carriers and owner-operators, said OTA president David Bradley. While this was the first meeting of its kind, everyone who attended agreed it was very constructive.

Going into the meeting we were not sure what to expect, but we were received very well by OTA and its board members who were in attendance, said Simran Kaur Chattha, chair of the Canadian Sikh Association. Through dialogue we hope to promote a better understanding between Sikh truckers and the membership of OTA which is a very effective voice for the industry.

Source - http://www.trucknews.com/news/ota-meets-with-sikh-truckers-to-address-shared-issues/1003003649/?&er=NA

Seems like Sikhs are integrating well within the trucking world, and I'm guessing trucking is quite a popular job for recent migrants from Punjab. Although, I cannot understand why there are issues with wear dastaar?

We forgot about human happiness, instead we are willing to work half our day so that we can make payments to our houses and cars and when you finish paying you realize you're a disease-ridden old man and that your life is already over.

Don't think people in Punjab would agree with what you have said, unfortunately.

This man is a disgrace if he said that. Does anyone know much about him?

no cause.

when you bath with cold water, you get frozen/become icicle , breakup into pieces and then die

Did you mean all of that? I'm sure it would be fine to bath with cold water as long as the room temperature is not freezing.

How someone who eats fish can be classed as 'vegetarian' I don't understand. 'Lacto-vegetarian ' would be the best description.

I'm no expert, but something like:

-US army

-Soviet army

-Chinese army

-Taliban

- Cuba/Castro (when took over the country)

My concern would be that the body cannot be cleansed of dirt and germs properly without warm water. However, I have not heard that taking a cold shower increases your chance of catching a cold.