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Hi, Before I start, I thought I'd say I'm from a Sikh background and basically my family don't have much knowledge of Sikhism, I don't care that they don't know much but one thing that worries me is that they don't worship God alone but sometimes think that other people are gods also and this is a big sin I don't want my family to be punished (for their blind deeds they will be blindly punished I think scripture says) as this is against the basic truth that most religions preach (Ek Onkar- there is only one God)! I'll give you examples my sister use to have Hindu idols in her bedroom (though she does not have them anymore as I said its against Sikhism as I showed her verses from scripture), even though she took them out of her room (this was years ago), I don't think she fully understands as I think she just wanted to get me to shut up as I was young at the time and had the energy to try and explain stuff (though I cant explain this stuff anymore as I am mentally drained every day and I struggle to explain stuff- though it is a lot easier to explain online as I can write stuff and rearrange it after so it makes more sense), some of family members even said "Jai Mata Di" when one of the babies sneezed (though I have only heard them say this recently). My family still go to Mandirs where idols are worshipped when invited, once they were invited to the 'marriage' of the Hindu gods (the couple who paid for this 'wedding' did this ceremony as they did not have any children of their own) but they don't understand we should only worship God. One of my family members who is baptised (done Amrit shak) in India she even went to do arti of an idol of a baba that our family believe in (even though this baba was alive at the time- though he's died now)! His Temple even had an ek onkar symbol on one side and an om symbol to the other side with an idol of Shiva I think on top of the entrance (I have a bad memory- but I can remember this place since going there on holiday when I was still at school- as this confused me like mad!) Some of my family members though the Gurus were 10 gods, when infact Guru Nanak worshipped God alone and referred to himself as a servant of God, if I remember correctly, so if my family claim to follow his religion then why don't they worship God alone! So I decided to send an email to either 2 or 3 Sikh channels a few weeks ago asking them to do a programme on this subject, and I have not received any responses from any of them! As my family tend to watch Sikh programmes on the Sikh religious channels quite often, as this is the only way they will be able to understand as if I said anything I will be dismissed as an <banned word filter activated> who knows nothing and I don't have the energy to debate, plus I don't want to upset anyone! What am I supposed to do! Please help! Life is hard enough without having to worry about punishment from God! Sorry for long post.

Why do we only see brown faces on these channels. On other faith channels like christian and muslim stations we often see white/black/asian people talking about their faiths. If Sikhs care about spreading the message and bringing people to Sikhism why dont we see other race people apart from Punjabi people. Im pretty sure if white people saw other white Sikhs on the show they would be more interested to know more about Sikhism. At the moment we Sikhs just look like a very insular community who are only interested in themselves. All we have is mostly Kirtan. How is this going to attract people to Sikhism. we need more shows about becoming a Sikh and how to practice Sikihsm. Not just music which is not exactly reaching our youth.