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Where’s the representation, what’s the message?

Telling young sikh kids that you can violate the fundamental tenets of the faith as long as you wear insignia on your clothing?

...While others sacrifice and battle for a lifetime to maintain identity and stay true to the faith?

Andrew Kooner may be a good person and he deserves praise and support for competing at a high level in his sport. However, enemies of sikhi could not dream up better weapons against sikhi than such ignorance toward one’s own faith. Represents?; represents distortion, represents ignorance, represents the effect of oppression, represents the result of self-hatred?

A good example of a careful, respectful, and humble representation from someone who does not maintain the identity is that of Ravi Kahlon here http://sikhchic.com/article-detail.php?id=558&cat=5

You want to speak of champs try Pardeep Singh Nagra… amazing! Nuvraj Singh Bassi, Darsh Singh… all amazing championship material that extends far beyond the sometimes pop culture/politically charged arena packaged as 'professional sport'.

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Kooner is nothing special in terms of boxing, very limited fighter. Saw him at the commonwealth games and he was exposed plenty of times.

There are a few boxers claim to be Sikhs. There is Akash Bhatia (plenty of youtube vids of his fights)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUaM_5McC74...feature=related

There is also former Indian heavyweight champ in USA named Guru Singh. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JderIW9vFI

Also Pradeep Singh.

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Whats he representing with Khandas on his shorts?

The Khalsa? :gg:

:rolleyes:

LOL, if he was representing khalsa, he would be sitting with the guys he is boxing with and instead of trying to knock him out, he would sit and have cup of tea with him and make friends

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Why don't we ever hear about people like this and appreciate them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Kooner

AND he represents like crazy..just look at his boxing shorts....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vldgehwnu5Y...feature=related

He's the canadian bantamweight Champ!!!

dudes no role model but a gangster wannabe, invites jazzy b to his fights, and has bin charged with assulting a police officer, plus youth look up to world champions and we need those in the sikh community

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