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My local Gurdwara has a meat shop and a fair few Chicken takeaways near it, no ones ever had an issue with it, there's no real smell from the meat shop (punjabi owned by the way, not muslim or halal) because they are governed by some pretty tight health and safety regulations, there's more of a smell from the fried chicken from the takeaways, point is, the Gurdwara committee knew shops like these could open because they are situated in a commercial area. I would suggest talking to landlord instead of making him aware that it may hurt sentiments (no idea if this has happened though), a few streets from there is Mr Singh's, a fully vegetarian restaurant where a lot of Amritdhari families go, and bang smack opposite is a meat shop, every time i go to Mr Singh's i never smell any meat from the shop opposite. This hit's the nail on the head, in my opinion.

It's a difficult one this, to turn people away goes against Sikhi but we have to take into account the time's we live in, most Gurdwara's have CCTV for security but the amount of time I've been to a Gurdwara and it's empty is unbelievable, no one is in the main hall where maharaj is, you can't find a giani for love nor money so who's looking after the place. In this case i get the feeling he was going to do it regardless, if it wasn't at the Gurdwara he would have taken the chance somewhere else.

Ho hum.................

Nothing, i just like posting random nonsense based on fact on the internet.

That's news to me considering they were set up by Everythings 13 (Basic's of Sikhi). They have, however, done their job and put some information up on their site: http://sikhpa.com/statements-on-white-pride-march-and-sikh-religious-festival-clash/

That's irrelevant to what these fools are doing, see the reply below for an explanation.

I think this has very little to do with Christian's and more to do with a far-right group with dwindling supporters trying to piggy-back something just for the sake of publicity, they tend to do this a fair amount, the end result being that they want to cause trouble but, from past experience, they tend to run away at the slightest sign of retaliation.

This is interesting because i know of a few Amritdhari Singhs who married non-amritdhari women and 2 of them have take Amrit a few years after they got married (one of the ladies even ties a dastaar) but their husband's still drop hint's about removing any excess hair and "shaping them eyebrows", double standards a-plenty from the men. It take's a strong man, both in mentality and spirituality to accept his wife if she has taken amrit and her appearance doesn't "comply" with the norms of society but it takes an even stronger woman to take amrit reject the norms of society and follow Guru sahib.

The full video is up on youtube. Irrelevant of whether you agree or disagree it's always worth listening to an "outsiders" experience of Sikhi and what draw's them to it and also, what brings people back into Sikhi.

Singh confessed to killing Bibi with a hammer on Tuesday at their house, bludgeoning her to death, for being “disrespectful” to him. This I've never understood, I've seen countless cases where someone's attacked or killed someone over "Respect", what respect are you left with when your in jail, this is less about pendu women and more about the general pendu attitude of punjabi's.

Maybe I am hoping a lot, but as a father of young daughter's all i can to is try and educate the future generation and hope that they don't mess up the way we have. I am wide awake and more than aware of how the media treat minorities, I used to work for the BBC and am well aware of what there internal politics are like and how they choose what is newsworthy but i could sit here all day and moan about how the white man did us and is still doing us wrong, that ain't gonna fix anything. At the end of it all, if problem's exist in out community i really don't care how they are highlighted we need to fix them, some stuff that goes on is an embarrassment to Sikhi and the wider community yet we complain when someone bring's it out in front of the general masses, if we've got dirt laundry we need to clean it not complain that the media is picking on us. I think we all have our own opinions about stuff like this, some people want to focus on the fact that a negative aspect of out community has been highlighted, other's like me, who know someone who's been through this very thing take a more personal view on the matter and feel we should highlight it and try to fix it.

It may be worth watching the episode of Inside Out this article is written about on the BBC Iplayer, the women in the documentary are not just Sikh but Hindu and Muslim as well. What does come across is the state of the Indian legal system when these women want a divorce from the husbands that have abandoned them, it's a mess, the husbands have to be there for it to happen and the likelihood of that id pretty slim, there need's to be some legal recourse in the country the man is from (or woman dependant on who's pulled the fast one). To me it doesn't come across as "Sikh Bashing", it's a problem in our and other communities and need's to be rectified, i'd say education is the key but sometimes that just doesn't work, no matter how hard you try.

I completely agree, like i said, he's an entertainer, where some people may have a moral conscious and say they won't listen to his music because of his beliefs or lifestyle they are twice as many that will overlook it. I don't know too much about who he believes in, to be honest there are plenty of singer's who probably have dubious beliefs, that's their burden to bear, at the end of the day we need to look at what positive change we can make everyday in our lives, he's released a song and will make money from it, we can debate or argue all we want but he's still cashing his pay cheque. No, but unfortunately that's the world we live in.

He's an entertainer, if anyone's looking for anything deeper they're barking up the wrong tree, i like his music (well, sometimes), his new song is reflective of the climate in Punjab, the timing of the release of it (in the middle of the elections) is questionable but sometimes, like already mentioned, we need to focus on the message, and that is on point in my opinion, i'm sure is someone else sang it someone would probably have some issue as well, there aren't many Punjabi entertainers who can stand up and say they've got a "clean sheet". As far as his son's sextape, there's plenty of them going about, most of them being from the mp's that are standing for election in India like Sher Singh Ghubaya.

“Instead of explaining anand karaj and its true purpose, this has become a business opportunity for many,” Deep Singh said. The irony is that he charges a $2000 fee.

I was put on a cocktail of vitamins when i had a vitamin d3 course late last year, one of those was indeed vitamin k, it's not pleasant having to take higher doses of vitamins but in this case the end's justified the means so to speak, my advice would be, if you need to and you can't or are not able to get the right vitamins from your diet for whatever reason, it's sometimes worth taking daily multi-vitamins, it'll save you grief in the long run but speak to your GP first.

They were HuxD3 tablets, they were a pretty high dose (20,000IU, my vitamin d was pretty much non-existent), i'm not sure they do a lower dose but you can get other brands that are vegan at a lower dose, i got mine from the chemist, the doctor wasn't able to prescribe them but told me which ones to get, it's worth having a chat with your GP about it, i'm sure they'll help. These are the ones i took. http://www.huxley-europe.co.uk/huxd3 Holland and Barrett do a pretty good Vegetarian range of vitamins (if you based in the UK).

Vitamin D and B12 deficiency can cause a lot of the symptoms the original poster has mentioned especially if you don'y eat meat (where most B12 and vitamin D come's from), I went through a period of time last year when i felt depleted of energy and had no interest in anything, had a blood test and it showed my B12 was rock bottom, was put on a course of 7 injections and vegan vitamin D tablets, felt better about a month after, I'm not knocking the original posters thought's towards black magic but sometimes not looking after yourself does more damage than anything, we should all go and get checked up on a regular basis.

Apparently the committee has made a public apology about what happened (on Thursday) and they are letting MLSS use their kitchens again from what I've just read on one of the MLSS sevadaar's FB feed, like i said, another day in a UK Gurdwara....

No idea what their rational was but i think hiring security and calling the local police to prevent a few women entering the kitchen to prepare meals for the homeless is a bit heavy handed, were the women strapped with c4 or something, just another day in the Gurdwara in the UK me-thinks.

Like the title say's really, Walsall Caldmore Gurdwara's committee decided they didn't want MLSS preparing food in the Gurdwara kitchen for the homeless, I just came across this today and to say i'm little lost for word's is an understatement, absolute disgrace. http://dailysikhupdates.com/walsall-caldmore-gurdwara-fire-stopping-langar-seva/

You can get them from here, DGN Sounds tend record Samagams, the Kirtan your talking about was done by Qi-Rattan. https://soundcloud.com/dgnsounds/sets/samagam-for-chardikala-of-bhai

Without wanting to sound like some kind of "hardcore fanatical vegetarian", Mr Singh's do a pretty good range of food that doesn't involve "fake meat",

Thoughts and prayers are with him and his family, especially his children at this time,he has done more to spread knowledge about Sikhi than anyone i know and bought me back onto the towards path of Sikhi, if you read his statement it show's nothing but humility and acceptance, something we could all learn from. A friend of mine put this up on facebook yesterday evening after hearing the news, sum's it all up. "When death becomes more than just an intellectual thought, life becomes real. Value each & every breath as they are more valuable than the material riches that make up the world we live in."

This. Oh the irony of going to a boxing match and a fight breaking out.