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In Order To Attract More Non-sikhs To Sikhism, Sikhs Will Have To Modernize


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On 1/16/2009 at 12:00 PM, catsagdn said:

If Sikhism is ever to spread beyond the 20 million Punjabis who are Sikhs then Sikhism will have to change dramatically. For example, the discarding of the archaic beard and turban will be a major step in marketing the Sikh faith. Since the vast majority of people around the world (including Sikhs) do not wear beards and turbans Sikhism will be in a great spot to get rid of them permanently. Besides, why would anyone interested in becoming a Sikh want to wear them anyway??????? :rolleyes:

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On 12/22/2022 at 11:02 AM, jkvlondon said:

Even socalled white sikhs who waved the sikhi flag for their own pockets have abandoned their sikhi saroop and denounced their loyalty to sikhi values. Just look at 3HO/ Sikhnet baba  Gurmustak Singh  he now has announced that he doesn't believe in the aims of sikhi .

Do you have a link where Gurmustak Singh said this?

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On 12/31/2022 at 10:22 PM, BhForce said:

Do you have a link where Gurmustak Singh said this?

it was up on reddit for  a short while then was deleted , it would not surprise me since others of the old guard have discarded the sikhi bhes but not the money pouring into the companies set up using daswand ripped off unaware goray sikhs and brown sikhs

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On 1/16/2009 at 7:00 AM, catsagdn said:

If Sikhism is ever to spread beyond the 20 million Punjabis who are Sikhs then Sikhism will have to change dramatically. For example, the discarding of the archaic beard and turban will be a major step in marketing the Sikh faith. Since the vast majority of people around the world (including Sikhs) do not wear beards and turbans Sikhism will be in a great spot to get rid of them permanently. Besides, why would anyone interested in becoming a Sikh want to wear them anyway??????? :rolleyes:

I would say numbers are important for political power in democratic systems, but numbers alone is pretty much useless, as we can see with the average Christian barely following the words of their founder and at many times Christians themselves have no idea of Jesus maryada. If we give up the importance of Kesh and Rehat, we would be going more backwards, even with the people who cut their hair today; everyone knows the importance of the true Rehat and they try to respect it even if they themselves don't necessarily practice it. Giving up Sikhi to increase numbers will do us no good.

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