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AMRITSAR: Satwant Singh and Kehar the assasins of former Prime Minister Indra Gandhi were declared martyrs at Akal Takht (highest Sikh Temporal Seat here Sunday. Today morning a special religious function was organised at Akal Takht which was attended and headed by the Jatehdar Akal Takht Gyani Joginder Singh Vedanti. Vedanti during the function declared Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh as martyrs of Sikh Panth as they had assassinated Indra Gandhi. Vedanti also justified the assassination of Indra Gandhi by Satwant Singh and Kehar Singh during the religious function here today. Satwant Singh and Kehar were hanged to death on January 6 for killing the former Prime Minister Indra Gandhi at New Delhi. Both had killed the Gandhi for sending the Indian Army to Golden Temple to carry out operation Blue Star in 1984. http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/7674/38/

Official in Jalandhar jail shaved a Sikh, Inmates resorted to violence inside Jalandhar, India: January 7, 2008 – IR Summary - The high-handedness of the authorities in Jalandhar jail in Punjab forced the inmates to resort to violence. The officials over there forcibly shaved a Sikh prisoner on Sunday, and that is against the Sikh religion, and when other inmates objected to such an action, they were beaten. Ultimately the inmates grew into rage and smashed windows, doors and furniture and set fire to a barrack inside the central jail in Jalandhar here today to lodge their protest against the authorities. Three of them are seriously injured. However, none of the prisoners tried to escape. Jail security staff lobbed tear-gas shells and fired in the air to disperse the prisoners. The situation in the prison, located in a congested residential area and one of the oldest in Punjab, remained tense as the police and jail management tried to wrest control of the prison complex from the agitated prisoners. Punjab Police Deputy Inspector General Narinder Pal Singh, who rushed to the jail complex upon hearing of the chaos, said the first priority of the police was to restore order inside the prison. "We are speaking to the representatives of the prisoners. They seem agitated over some issue," Singh said. He did not disclose that their officials had forcibly shaved sikh prisoners. Armed Punjab Police reinforcements were rushed to the prison to secure it from outside and ensure that no prisoner could escape. The agitated prisoners set a portion of the prison complex on fire and damaged other buildings inside. They also threw out things from various rooms of the prison. The prisoners went on a hunger strike against the jail officials Monday morning after which they were caned by the jail staff. This led to the clash, and the prisoners began to run riot. Most of the ire was against a jail official who joined his post a week ago. The official is known for using strong-arm tactics against prisoners. He was earlier accused of branding a prisoner with an objectionable word on his body while he was in another prison in Punjab, as IANS.

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Spiritual Leaders Alexy II, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Orthodox Church Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi), a Hindu spiritual leader Pope Benedict XVI, head of the Roman Catholic Church The Dalai Lama (Tenzin Gyatso), spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists Grand Ayatollah Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, a prominent Shi'ite Muslim leader Bishop Mark Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America High Priest Michihisa Kitashirakawa, Daiguji (Shinto Priest) of the Grand Shrine of Ise Rabbi Yona Metzger, Chief Rabbi of Israel, Ashkenazi Dr. Frank Page, President of the Southern Baptist Convention Imam Muhammad Sayyed Tantawi, Sheikh of Al-Azhar and a prominent Sunni Muslim leader Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the Sikhs' highest authority Dr. Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Church of England

This documentary will air on the 23rd of December on CBS. To watch a preview please follow this link http://alpha.cbs.com/specials/in_gods_name/ Joginder Singh Vedanti, Jathedar of the Akal Takht, the Sikhs' highest authority, in private prayer in his home

No Veer Ji, in India. Also does the Tribune print its articles?

That plan can still work today.

How many people will read this article?

This Above All Memories that haunt Khushwant As soon as Jyoti Grewal’s Betrayed by the State: The Anti-Sikh pogrom of 1984 (Penguin) landed on my table, I put aside other work and got down to reading it. The author has impressive scholarly credentials. She has a doctorate in history from an American University (Stony Brook), was professor at another (Iowa) and is currently teaching Social Behaviourial Sciences in Dubai. The subject is of importance to me. I was involved and have written about it many times. There are questions to which I have not yet found convincing answers. Why did it happen? Who was primarily responsible for its happening? Why was it not prevented from happening? I was hoping to find answers in Jyoti Grewal’s book. Alas! Before I give reasons for being disappointed, let me concede that she writes very well and does not spare anyone concerned—Bhindranwale, Indira Gandhi, Giani Zail Singh, Rajiv Gandhi, Ribeiro, KPS Gill, et al. However, her analysis of the Hindu-Sikh divide, equating Jat Sikhs with the Khalsa Panth and giving a lower status to non-Jat Sikhs (pejoratively known as bhapas), is flawed. She is herself a Jat Sikh. Above all, she has very little new to tell us of the extensive anti-Sikh violence following the assassination of Mrs Gandhi. Her publisher should have advised her to fill in the gaps in her narrative. Jyoti Grewal holds that the Hindu-Sikh divide is the basic point in the evolution of Sikhism. She toes the line of Sikh separatists who never stop shouting from their housetops hum Hindu nahin hain (we are not Hindus). If she read the sacred scripture, the Adi Granth, she would notice that over 90 per cent of the names of God are Hindu—Hari, Ram, Govind, etc. Even the last of the Gurus, Gobind Singh, invoked Shiva to give him strength to fight his oppressors. All the Ten Gurus were Khatris, not one was a Jat. So was Banda Bahadar, the founder of Sikh political power in Punjab. Despite occasional differences, inter-marriages between Hindus and Sikhs of the same caste are common. What the Gurus, particularly Guru Gobind Singh, gave them was a distinct outward appearance and rituals A clean-shaven Sikh became a Hindu believing in Sikhism as are millions of Punjabi and Sindhi Hindus who prefer chanting Sikh prayers, which they can understand, rather than reciting Sanskrit shlokas, they can’t. They go to gurdwaras rather than Hindu temples. The borderline dividing the two communities is, as it always has been, blurred. Relations between the two are, as they have always been, nauh maas da rishta (as nail is to the flesh from which it grows). The relationship changed with the emergence of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale as the leader of the radical Khalsa. There is good reason to believe he was picked up by Giani Zail Singh to undermine the influence of the Akalis in rural Punjab as a counterfoil to the Jat Congress Chief Minister Darbara Singh, against whom the Giani had a life-long feud. There is no truth that Zail Singh (non-Jat) was anti-Jat, as alleged by the author. He was repeatedly elected to the Punjab Assembly and Parliament from predominantly Jat constituencies. Relations between Hindus and Sikhs began to sour when Bhindranwale started using abusive language for the Hindus and his goons went on a spree of indiscriminate killings of Hindus and Sikhs who disagreed with him. No Sikh leader spoke up against him. Lesser people who did were eliminated by his thugs. The government, advised by Zail Singh, mishandled the situation. When he was arrested on charges of murder, Zail Singh as Home Minister had him released on his own terms. Then he went out of hand. Far from being a tool of the Congress, he became a leader in his own rights, moved into the Golden Temple and fortified it. If Zail Singh is to be believed, he knew nothing about the Army being ordered to storm the Golden Temple, and was deeply hurt by the operation. Later, he decorated the officers who had carried out Operation Bluestar. He lost all credibility. However, as President, without consulting MPs or chief ministers, he swore in Rajiv Gandhi as successor to Indira Gandhi after she was assassinated on October 31, 1984. What followed remains a mystery. To start with there was a spontaneous outburst of anger against Sikhs. Zail Singh’s cavalcade on its way from AIIMS to Rashtrapati Bhawan was stoned. Some Sikh-owned property was set on fire. The eruption could have been quelled by a show of force. It was not. It is evident that the coterie surrounding the new Prime Minister met and decided that the Sikhs had to be taught a lesson. So the Delhi Administration and the police remained spectators to the excesses committed on innocent Sikhs. Over 3,000 of them were murdered in two days. Twentythree years and nine commissions later we still don’t know who were the men who allowed this dastardly crime against the nation to take place.

Punjab bandh call fails to evoke any response Chandigarh (PTI): The day-long bandh call given by Shiv Sena (Hindustan) on Friday to protest installation of portrait of Jarnail Singh Bhinderanwale in the Golden temple premises evoked partial response today as it passed off peacefully. While the Shiv Sena (Hindustan) had given bandh call to protest the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbhandhak Committee's (SGPC) decision to install Bhinderanwale's portrait, radical organisation Shiromani Akali Dal (Amritsar) had called for "fateh marches" (victory processions) to hail the move. The Punjab government had imposed prohibitory orders in the wake of the bandh call and fateh marches. Several activists owning allegiance to both the organisations were taken into custody as a precautionary measure, officials said. SAD(A) chief Simranjit Singh Mann along with his supporters was arrested in Sangrur, official sources said. However, the bandh call did not get the support of Shiv Sena (Bal Thackery) in the state. "Our marches were successful and very peaceful. Still police took us into custody for allegedly violating prohibitory orders," Mann said after his arrest. Police said that there was no response to the bandh call. The government institutions and other offices, colleges, schools, business establishments and shops across the state functioned normally, officials said here. At Patiala, police registered a case against Shiv Sena (Hindustan) General Secretary Harish Singla and others for "burning" the photographs of Bhinderanwale

Only Sarpanch can get this done.

It's a chain letter. Don't send it.

This happen to my computer but I had it networked to the another computer. My HP had the problem and the other computer that I used to fix it was a Emachine. But here's what I did. Since I was on a network I just sent a copy of the isass.exe file to shared folder on broken computer (the HP one with the error) from my other (good) Emachine computer. After that message error pops up I pressed Ctrl Alt Delete (all at once). The windows task manager will pop up. In the windows task manage I clicked on "file" and then "new task (run)" Then I simply copied the "isass.exe" from the shared folder (the file from the Emachine) and pasted the file in WINDOWS\system32 folder on my local drive. In your case you might need to try this with a flash drive.

Thanks for sharing

do you have any idea what kind of chain reaction effect his comments caused on larger scale between relationship between sikhs and hindus? Veer Ji, please explain.

There is also a video on youtube.

The speech was made by Ajab Singh Bagri in July 28 of 1984 in New York City at MSG. This was just a month after Operation Blue Star, emotions were running high, Bagri just snapped on stage, if you've ever seen the entire video of his speech then you will realize this. This is what Bagri said early in the speech. Its July 1984, the army is going to the villages rounding up youth, information isn't really coming out of Punjab, Darbar Sahib has been attacked and thousands of Sikhs have been killed, Indra Ghandi is still breathing. So emotion were running really high.

Sarpanch thanks for posting the link to the article :TH:

Sikh extremism resurges, Canada feels the heat Chandigarh: From Canada to Punjab, 2007 has seen a revival of Sikh extremism. While the government is quick to assert that no one will be allowed to mess with peace in the state, lines dividing terrorists and the rich cultural heritage of the Sikhs have been blurred. On Saturday, the Dal Khalsa tied up with the separatist group Hurriyat Conference and the JKLF to pursue common goals, including the right to self-determination. Just weeks ago, Sikh fundamentalist Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale resurfaced at the Golden Temple. In May, Sikh extremist factions made their presence felt during the Dera Sachcha Sauda controversy. All this is happening under the leadership of Chief Minister Prakash Singh Badal. But it appears that others are pandering to extremist Sikh sentiment as well. On April 7 this year, Khalistan made its presence felt, albeit briefly, on the streets of Canada during a parade to celebrate Baisakhi where a terrorist was honoured as a martyr. Talwinder Singh Parmar was the mastermind of the 1985 Kanishka tragedy. Sharing the stage with Khalistan supporters and former militants was the premier of British Columbia Gordon Campbell. He now denies that he willingly glorified terrorism but doesn’t apologise for being there. Neither does he criticise the organizer. “They were all very upset by what the Gurudwara did. What we have to do is be more careful about where we're going and make sure these questions are asked prior to going there,” he says. Politicians like Campbell may have been embarrassed by their voters but radicals in Canada and at home don’t see a problem “There is no threat to the country's integrity and is the integrity so weak that displays of pictures could dent it?” asks Kanwar Pal Dhami of Dal Khalsa. Twenty-three years after Operation Blue Star, Sikh extremism is seeing a revival and this blurring of lines between culture and extremism is worrying the liberals.

Can this be compared to having kesh but wear a cap/hat?

Maybe it has to do with one's intent, like if someone wants to tie their beard to give the impression that it is trimmed. Basically it comes down to 'what's the reason for doing this'. Of course there are professions were a person has to cover/tie their beard (metal work is an example) but thats just for a safety reason. Just my thoughts.

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yaar dont call em sikhs plz who do hawans and all at their place Veer Ji, I put Sikhs in quotations b/c they are pakandis/pretenders.

I don't think that RSS Hindus will do anything but they'll probably send the RSS "Sikhs".

I see your point but this could work the other way around. Maybe by seeing Sant Ji picture the youth and sangat might get inspired to listen to katha and dharam yudh morcha tapes of Sant Ji. Thats how it worked for me.