Arson Attack On Williams Lake Gurdwara

[Lionchild]

here's another one: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../603270308/1001

anyway, Sikhs have got to make their own Identity as SIKHS clear, and that they are neither Middle Eastern, Muslim, Pakistani, or Indian (Hindustani), we are Punjabi's...this stuff will only increase if nothings done about it soon...

Bul Chuk maaf kareo ji...

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Thanks for clerifying that BulldozerWarga$ingh, i think if we had made our presence know as well as get more involved in other community's, we would not have this problem of beign labeled as muslims, or at least very little.

I hope they find out who did this stuff.

[BCSikhYouth]

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_temple-fire20060327.html

Arson suspected in Sikh temple fire

Last updated Mar 27 2006 04:45 PM PST

CBC News

Police are investigating after a fire completely gutted the interior of a Sikh temple in Williams Lake on Sunday.

RCMP and the Williams Lake Fire Department were attending a fire in a mobile home on Sunday afternoon, when they got the call to the temple.

Firefighters had just managed to confine that trailer fire, when they got the alarm on the fire at the Gurdwara Western Singh Sabha Temple

They were able to save the structure, but the interior was destroyed. Damage is estimated at $500,000.

RCMP believe the fires are connected, and suspect that both were deliberately set.

An 18-year-old male has been arrested. Sean Alan Downey faces a charge of arson and damage to property.

RCMP say they don't believe racism was a factor. The Crown counsel's office is seeking a psychiatric evaluation for the teen.

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[BCSikhYouth]

Thanks to the cooperation of online Khalsa sangat, this story has been published on various sites so far:

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showtopic=17806&hl=

http://forums.waheguroo.com/index.php?showtopic=13895&hl=

http://www.tapoban.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=76356&t=76356

http://www.techvibes.com/idealbb/view9027.html

http://www.cbc.ca/bc/story/bc_temple-fire20060327.html

http://khalsaforce.blogspot.com/2006/03/ar...e-gurdwara.html

http://spaces.msn.com/mandeepj/Blog/cns..2!857.entry

http://akj.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1157&...457c88a85cb277c

http://www.sikhnet.com/sikhnet/discussion....33;OpenDocument

http://www.bcsikhyouth.com/2006/03/27/arso...-lake-gurdwara/

http://www.sikhsangat.org/publish/article_936.shtml

[Jaspaul Singh]

guru jiii .. burnt ....

[BCSikhYouth]

[Harjit_S_Banga]

May Waheguru ji forgive us all..........waheguroo....wahegurooooo

[gupt_paapi]

here's another one: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../603270308/1001

anyway, Sikhs have got to make their own Identity as SIKHS clear, and that they are neither Middle Eastern, Muslim, Pakistani, or Indian (Hindustani), we are Punjabi's...this stuff will only increase if nothings done about it soon...

The Police wont do much unless there's an Organisation of Sikhs who warn the Police that they might have to take things in their own hand if the Police dont do anything about these situations soon, even if that means Killing or Smashing the person to Death to protect our Gur Karh...

Some self fashioned "Natzi" Gorehs who believe in "White Power" only target Sikhs because they know we wont do very much about it because of the lack of unity, as Sikhs are to busy building new Gurdwara's and ripping Sikhs apart by deviding them into caste's etc... instead of bringing them together and uniting the Almighty Khalsa...

Plus some new younger White Generation is so dumb they will become a Nazi even when they know there Great Grandfather or Grandfather died fighting against Hitler's army in the WWII...

Every single White knows that Muslims worship in a Mosque and most of them dont wear Turbans, they wear Hats...but a Gorah wouldn't dare set fire to a Mosque or bomb it because they know some BIG MUSLIMS FROM COLLEGE OR UNI will smash up into bits, chop their head of and get a knife and circumsize them...So they decide to mess with a Sikh instead and manage to show the rest of the world how "hard" they are, although they wouldn't dare do anything in place's like Southall where they know some hardcore Sikh Unity still exists...I may sound a bit crude but thats the way I think it is...

PS: Im not saying all Whites or Muslims are bad...there are some especially well educated and inspiring Whites out there who can tell what Sikhs have dont for Britain...especially the older generations...

Bul Chuk maaf kareo ji...

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TRUE!!!! WE NEED 2 WAKE UP!

we are NOT sheeps!!!! we are lions.. lets at least ACT like them

[simmal tree]

Same news from Globe and Mail today

It is good they are doing coverage, but not very much coverage at all

only new info they gave in the article compared to other articles : RCMP Corporal Mark Menard said police are confident the temple fire was not racially motivated.

so the man who did this is not racist, just ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. :wub:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...PStory/National

[kurtas]

Same news from Globe and Mail today

It is good they are doing coverage, but not very much coverage at all

only new info they gave in the article compared to other articles : RCMP Corporal Mark Menard said police are confident the temple fire was not racially motivated.

so the man who did this is not racist, just ABSOLUTELY CRAZY.  :wub:  

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/sto...PStory/National

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Its not crazy for there to be no link to racism. We had a fire at a Gurdwara in the UK where the giani from India left his kachara on a electric heater (caused about 50K of damage). In another case a young child set fire to a Gurdwara building.

There was a survey done on church fires in the USA between 1995 and 1996 and only 20 (out of 73) black church fires had an element of racism (nine of the church fires had black suspects named). So although it may appear that it is down to racism, it is not always the case.

During an 18 month period there were fires at 75 white churches and 73 black churches. During a six year period there were 248 arson attacks on white churches and 161 at black churches.

Some cases involved firefighters setting fire to churches which they then helped put out. Other culprits include drunk teenagers, burglars etc.

[singh_comradz]

here's another one: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art.../603270308/1001

anyway, Sikhs have got to make their own Identity as SIKHS clear, and that they are neither Middle Eastern, Muslim, Pakistani, or Indian (Hindustani), we are Punjabi's...this stuff will only increase if nothings done about it soon...

The Police wont do much unless there's an Organisation of Sikhs who warn the Police that they might have to take things in their own hand if the Police dont do anything about these situations soon, even if that means Killing or Smashing the person to Death to protect our Gur Karh...

Some self fashioned "Natzi" Gorehs who believe in "White Power" only target Sikhs because they know we wont do very much about it because of the lack of unity, as Sikhs are to busy building new Gurdwara's and ripping Sikhs apart by deviding them into caste's etc... instead of bringing them together and uniting the Almighty Khalsa...

Plus some new younger White Generation is so dumb they will become a Nazi even when they know there Great Grandfather or Grandfather died fighting against Hitler's army in the WWII...

Every single White knows that Muslims worship in a Mosque and most of them dont wear Turbans, they wear Hats...but a Gorah wouldn't dare set fire to a Mosque or bomb it because they know some BIG MUSLIMS FROM COLLEGE OR UNI will smash up into bits, chop their head of and get a knife and circumsize them...So they decide to mess with a Sikh instead and manage to show the rest of the world how "hard" they are, although they wouldn't dare do anything in place's like Southall where they know some hardcore Sikh Unity still exists...I may sound a bit crude but thats the way I think it is...

PS: Im not saying all Whites or Muslims are bad...there are some especially well educated and inspiring Whites out there who can tell what Sikhs have dont for Britain...especially the older generations...

Bul Chuk maaf kareo ji...

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veer ji i agree but not the part about the muslims. after 7/7 there were round about 400 attacks on mosques in britain. i dont think anyone saw such a reaction from their youth. the problem is its an invisible enemy.

its really bad news to hear about whats happened. i fear that attacks on Sikhs are becoming an ever increasing occurance. we can't rely on the media and politicians because frankly they don't do jack for us. their slow reaction and lack of coverage for Sikhs post 9/11 and 7/7 in britain has shown us just that. when we complain about lack of awareness our complaint are just brushed to the side or labelled as encouraging attacks on muslims instead

we need to MAKE A STAND and form national youth networks in affected countries to protect our community and places of worship BECAUSE NO ONE ELSE WILL.

the coming times will prove even worser for us unless we act now.

with Guru ji's guidance each of us should be sawa lakh

fateh