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Vaheguroo Jee Ka Khalsa, Vaheguroo Jee Kee Fateh!

Sadhsangat jee i came across this website www.desirags.co.uk,

They have a design of a ikonkar on there on a t-shirt, can sangat email to say its wrong and shouldn’t be sold. We should try and do as much as we can to do satkaar of bani. Please Help by telling them its wrong, email them, it may persuade them to take it off the clothes line.

Email Address is business@desirags.co.uk

Thank You

Dass

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i found the fatith united one quite offensive.... in some ways its sending a mixed signal to non sikhs and sikhs ... the oom and th ecross look no diffent but by placing the khanda where the star should be... thats sending a mixed signal .... what are they trying to say....

my pennys worth

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Vaheguroo jee Ka Khalsa, Vaheguroo jee kee fateh!

JUST A QUICK UPDATE, With vaheguroos Kirpa the website www.desirags.co.uk has taken down the tshirt. They sent this email:-

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

Thank you for your e-mail in respect of our Super Onkar design.

You will be pleased to know that we have now withdrawn the design from our website.

We received a barrage of e-mails after having had appeared at the Handsworth Mela, Birmingham, on Sunday 26th April 2009. Whilst we were at the Mela we were approached by a group of pacifist individuals who explained that although they particularly liked some of our other designs they felt that tees relating to this specific design were open to abuse in that they could be washed with other unclean laundry or that the person wearing the tee could find themselves exposed to an environment where alcoholic drinks or cigarette smoke was prevalent and therefore this could lead to the degradation of the first word of the sacred Mool Mantar.

We want to make clear that you were not alone in expressing your concern as to the use of the first phrase of Guru Granth Sahib Ji - Ek Onkar – on one of our tees.

It is also important to clarify why we initially sought to release the design. We ourselves are Sikhs and as two brothers who have independent careers (a Solicitor and a Doctor), we saw Desirags.co.uk as an important medium not only to promote our vibrant culture but also to showcase the cornerstone symbol of our religion and the important message that it carries.

Upon launching the design, the concerns that have since been expressed did indeed cross our minds and were discussed at some length, but at the time we felt that the positive message that the design carried far outweighed any negative feedback that it may well attract. We did not envisage that anybody purchasing the tee would openly abuse the same – how could they? Surely they wouldn’t purchase the tee to wear to a public house or to go to a nightclub?

With hindsight, we firmly believe that nobody would purchase the tee in order to deliberately abuse it. However, we do accept that anybody wearing the tee could find themselves in a situation or an environment whereby, although it may not be intentional on their part, acts which degrade or undermine a hugely important aspect of our faith and religion are taking place – would Desirags.co.uk be contributing to the degradation? We feel that we would and therefore have immediately pulled the design and removed it from our website.

We would also like to mention that it was not our intention to release the design in order to profiteer from it or to gain mass recognition from the same, rather it was an idea that we thought would ultimately help our current generation in understanding an important tenet of our religion.

We would like to direct a big thank you to the kind youths that approached us at the event, in a pacifist manner, in order to relay their viewpoints and concerns. We all make mistakes and you can only learn from a mistake after you’ve admitted it – desirags.co.uk is a newly established business and it’s evident we are still finding our feet. We have learnt an important lesson during our ‘teething’ stages and hope that with Baba ji’s mehr we will grow bigger and stronger as a result.

We apologise if we have caused offence or distress to anyone and trust that you will support our venture with your fullest vigour.

Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh.

Kindest regards

Gurvinder & Amardeep

Desirags.co.uk

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what bout all the people with ik onkar tattoed on there hand?? there hands touch booze and and other things, what u suggest

they do ??

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