Bbc Radio 4's Smear Campaign On Sikhs

[Harmeet1]

hahaha....al queda

[Matheen]

What bloody punjab militancy?! they're having a laugh....

Can we call in?

Who is this Amardeep <banned word filter activated>?

[Singhstah]

seems like a recorded programe singh, porbably because the coward traitor would not be able to answer anything

omg wat betrayal, sending reporters into gurdvara to SPY

wat a kuttaa for making this programe

[_anon_]

babbar khalsa and al-quaeda? what the

it may be time for british sikh journalists to take advantage of their position.

[Techno_singh]

oh my days lol

[Matheen]

I have a strong feeling a rival political party in Southall has come up with this to get attention in the press - certainly seemed like it from the content of the show.

Airing our laundry in public is a new low.

[swordsedge]

1) listen/download the show at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml#f

2) ring OFCOM on 020 7981 3040. You can also complain to the BBC by ringing 08700 100 222.

3) Also for those of you with Internet access use the following link to make a written complaint to OFCOM www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/progs/specific/ . A written complaint can also be made to the BBC using the same link or www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/make_complaint_step1.shtml

Given what we know about the programme you may be able to make the following key points to OFCOM and the BBC. Use some of these words..

The BBC Radio 4: File On 4 programme on Tuesday 26 February 2008 at 8pm was:

Discriminatory

Inaccurate/Biased

Misleading

Misrepresented views and facts

Unfair

[bhai sahib ji]

Before you complain make sure you listen to the show first so that you have all the facts.

You can hear it at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/progs/listenagain.shtml#f select File on 4. You can also download it.

[SaRpAnCh]

Dal Khalsa UK Press Release

Dal Khalsa UK Condemns the programme aired on BBC Radio 4 as a smear campaign agianst the UK Sikh Coummiunity,this was uncalled for and further alienates the Sikhs in Britain.

Sikhs were compared to Al Qaeda and it was also said Sikhs have made alliances with Al Qaeda,this is a very very dangerous thing to say ,in terms of what the Sikh Community here in the UK and in the world might face,your average American or European will not know the difference between a Sikh and Al qaeda member,but with a Panjab Police officer saying on BBC Radio 4 that Sikhs are with Al Qaeda further increases the risk of Sikhs being attacked and smeared by uneducated people in the Western World.

This programe is in direct response to the UK Sikhs,launching a campaign to Ban the RSS Hindu Terror group and to freeze it funds.This has all been co ordinated by the Indian Govt,Anti Sikh groups in the UK,Biased reporters Sunny Hundal (UK Equivalent of Kim Bolan Canada),and members of the Sikh community such as Himmat Singh Sohi Sri Guru Singh Sabha Southall/Commitee members (Who atteneded RSS Function in Wembley last year,note the programme claimed he attended a Mandir,it was not a Mandir,but a community hall in which Hitler Worshipping members of the RSS were honoured)

The BBC on a number of occasions has been emailed and contacted to cover the RSS campaign but has refused to do so.

While Sikhs talk of banning Hindu terror groups in the UK and freezing their funds & assets ,all of a sudden this programme appears accusing Sikhs of funding terrorism.The programme did not show what the Indian govt is doing nor what the Sikhs believe,instead it was biased and tragedy's such as Air India bombing ,Ludhiana Cinema Bombings were blamed on Sikhs,who have nothing to do with these atrocities.

Words,quotes and videos were taken out of context to make it seem that Sikhs are terrorists ,and are building terror cells in the UK,Sikhs are not a threat to the UK we live here in peace and are law abiding people.The most worrying part of the programme was comparing Sikhs to Al Qaeda and claiming UK born Sikh get training in Pakistan ,this is 110% untrue and are utter lies by the producers and Panjab Police.Everyone knows how heavily fortified the India Pakistan border is a cat can't even cross it let alone Sikhs wearing turbans and beards who stand out.

We ask all Sikhs to remain calm and to unite at this time,

there is no doubt that this programme was in direct response to the Ban The RSS campaign,to divert attention from it ,and to blame Sikhs for bombings,terror attacks,and to make Sikhs public enemy number 1 in the British public.While Sikhs in the UK are exposing the RSS for their terrorist activities across the UK,the internet,and at local Gurdwaras mysteriously the Panjab Police and Govt dream up stories of Sikhs funding terror,bombing cinemas ,bombing planes,UK Born Sikhs training in Pakistan,and claim Sikhs who ask for Self Determination /Khalistan are terrorists attacking UK Gurdwara commitees.

Sikh Freedom groups have never killed innocents and have falsely been accused and blamed without any proof,there is no Militant activity in the Panjab,it does not exist /Sikh Freedom rallys in London were made to look like terror meetings in which 'banned groups', were involved in,it was made to look like Sikhs are a growing threat to the UK,this is pathetic.

This has all come at such a time when Sikhs in the UK are waking up to reality and the need for Freedom from Indian oppresion,the national/International media have covered this pathetic news story and spread it everywhere,it is up to is now to react in a swift calm manner .

I appeal to all Sikhs in the UK to take a stand against this smear campaign and ask all Sikh groups across the country,to speak out against it,make press releases,and complain to the BBC.

complaint BBC hotline

Phone:

08700 100 222*

email

fileon4@bbc.co.uk

Online feedback form

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/file...95924.stm#email

DAL KHALSA UK

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For those who did not listen to the show here is the link ,is it possible for SikhRoots or another Sikh site to record it as I don't have the software

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod....?radio4/fileon4

[IWannaBeAGurSikh]

One thing is evident. We have got some useless spokespeople. Who is the Avtar Singh Sanghera from Coventry and who let him talk?! The Bittu guy said some descent stuff and I hate to say it, but Sunny hundals closing comments made sense.

Sooner or later all these years of Gurdwara fights, intimidation of sangat, turban knocking and kirpan slaying was gonna catch up with us one day. BBC have picked up on it, added some spice and made a radio documentary.

Sadly, some of the stuff was not far from the truth!