Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Vaheguru Ji Ki Fateh
I have the misforture to be on the emailing list of Rami Ranger (wannabe UK "Sikh" figure, businessman and conservative party supporter)
His most recent email I have received is a letter he has written to SGPC condemning them for stopping Bollywood filming in Gurdwaras, here's the letter:
To,
The President of SGPC
Amritsar
Dear Sardar Ji,
Guru Fateh,
I learnt with dismay that the filming of our Gurudawaras in motion pictures will no longer be allowed. Hidden talent is no talent. Please tell me as to how you will now show the beauty and splendor of our places of worship where everyone is welcome regardless of their religion or cast to the world at large? How will you tell the rest of the mankind where we worship?
Please do not try to take us back in time with backward and outdated thinking. We are not a Nation of inward looking people. If our Guru wanted us to be backward and intolerant then they need not have made supreme sacrifices for us. We must copy what we want to be. If we want to be a progressive religion then we must follow the teachings of our Gurus and if we want be backward then we must follow the practices of backward religions. We all know how backward religions are being perceived in the world by people of different faiths.
Please make it easier for people to learn about the teachings of our Gurus, those of love and tolerance for the entire mankind. Please also make it easier for everyone to visit our places of worship. Please do realise that who so ever comes through the doors, come to pay respect and offerings to our Gurus. People can always pay respect to our Gurus from anywhere they like but if they stop coming to Gurudawars then only the Gurudawars will lose out on the donations people make for the up keep. Common sense is just not so common. We must never score own goals.
We must always endeavour to tell the world as to how progressive our Gurus were. They were also tolerant and visionary unlike most of today’s Sikh leaders. Unfortunately majority of them are uneducated, backward and opportunist. They just serve their own interest unlike our Gurus who always put the welfare and future of their people above their own personal comforts and safety.
A nation is as great as its leader and I hope you will try to become a great leader inline with our Gurus teaching.
We should not allow anyone to guide us who wishes to make us backward looking and hostile to progress. Progress should be embraced and not shunned. We are no longer fighting the Moguls. Our fight now is with science and technology. If we do not conquer these then we will end up only as scholars of Sikh history and monuments of the past. The world is now a global village and moving fast. Those who do not move with the times unfortunately become obsolete and demand separate countries for protection where like minded people can live hidden away from the rest of the modern world.
I await your comments.
Regards
Dr. Raminder Singh MBE, FRSA
London
Rami can be contacted at <mod edited: Email Removed>
According to this letter Amitabh Bachchan and Ashwariya Rai are doing great parchar via their Hindufied Sikh characters in Bollywood movies!!
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