Attitude & Comments - Muslims/pakistani Guys

[SantSapai]

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh!

Sangat Ji,

Many of you may have noticed or experienced this on a daily basis too - the attitude and comments from Muslim/Pakistani guys walking past you in the street - day or night.

I'm pretty much sick of it (along with the majority no doubt).

It seems to happen everyday.

When walking somewhere I always get a Muslim guys deliberately barge into me or say "Kidha Paaji" or something stupid related to bhangra because I'm a Singh.

I know there's no getting away from these people as they breed like rats no matter where in the UK you go.

Earlier today I was happily walking home from the Gurdvara reciting Bani and again a Muslim guy shouts from ahead walking towards me "Oh Singh" in a daft voice and then changed direction on the footpath to come in front of me with his elbow sticking out to barge into me. I countered it by slightly moving as I seen it coming.

I didn't say anything or look back as I was reciting Bani and didn't want krodh to get the better of me plus there were two of them and I'm not exactly a large person.

These people burn at the site of us Singh's.

They really need to be dealt with like we did in the praatan samah as the government seem to be afraid of them - if we stick together they can't exactly arrest the whole Sikh community!

Have any of the sangat had similar (worse or not so worse) incidents and how do you deal with them?

I know it may sound childish but there comes a point where enough is enough.

They're talking our Singhniya and we are watching it happen.

Admin ji, bhul chuk maaf karayo ji.

Vaheguru Ji Ka Khalsa! Vaheguru Ji Ke Fateh!

[Shamshere]

I think every Singh needs to learn some sort of self defence. Our look makes us stand out from the crowd.

I was a mona and have only been wearing a pagh for about a month now. I realise this makes me more of a target to such animals.

I will be learning some sort of boxing/martial arts and increase my weight through weightlifting.

Think of Baba Deep Singh and Hari Singh Nalwa, they must have been so strong and fit. That is how every Singh should be. Not a pot bellied lagar lout or someone whose staple diet is greasy aloo paranthas!

Be in optimal condition so that even if you cannot fight them, make sure you are quick enough to get away if worst comes to worst. Practice sprints, especially hill sprints, not only will you get faster, you will also develop big powerful legs.

This is a Singh from my hometown, he's a promising MMA fighter, not the tallest but strongly built. I can guarantee you that he would take out any Pakistani, including Amir Khan.

[luckysingh99]

I know how you feel !

The situation is quite bad in UK and the singhs over here in the Americas don't seem to get it or understand the abuse we put up with in UK.

[Shamshere]

If they do any bhangra comments just counter it with qwaali comments.

Even when I was a mona a pakistani guy asked if I celebrated an Indian cricket victory by doing bhangra (I was a big cricket fan in my youth). I told him, 'no, i listened to a qwaali and clapped my hands instead'.

He soon shut up.

One thing these guys have is unity, they will always back up another muslim. Apne have fights with other apne. I've hardly every seen any pakistani on pakistani fights but seen plenty of apne on apne fights.

Someone even told me dad a joke - a muslim guy sees another muslim, he becomes so happy and gives him a japi. A singh sees another singh and he gets gusa and says why are you looking at me!

[j2o]

All Sikhs, male or female should practice some form of self defence. I have a 17 month old son and as soon as he is old enough I wil make sure hehas the opportunity to get involved with karate or boxing, 2 sports I have been involved in for aprox 20 years.

It gives you the confidence to stand up to these moronic paki's, and morons in general. And 99% of the time it doesnt lead to violence anyway as the other party will generaly back down when they see you have no fear of defending yourself

But as said above, first we need to stop fighting with each other and start backing each other up

[singh135]

there is a saying in asia; not to trust pakistanis

enough said

[VanHelsingh]

Tell them to eff off with a bit of bass in your voice.

[Kalsingh]

How do you know they are Pakistanis though? I've had the same sort of experiences and it just makes you want to knock someone out. When some mona says 'Oh Singhhhe' in some crack addict voice. They single you out because you are a Singh and conceptualise you. But I've had this come from mona Sikhs as well and at times I can't tell if it's a Muslim or Sikh or whoever.

One time I was in the car waiting for someone and some <banned word filter activated> pointed at me and shouted out 'Singh!!' and said alright and was laughing. I just blanked him, lol. And his mates were like ooooh. But they were Sikhs, I'm pretty sure of it. One was a Sikh as he was wearing a patka and it was a heavily Sikh populated area.

[Mehtab Singh]

What do you do when you get insults from "Monne Sikhs" ?

[Kalsingh]

I'd want to knock them out. Doesn't matter if they were Muslims or Sikhs or Hindus. Hasn't happened to me in ages but I've told myself next time it happens, I'm going to confront them about it, whoever they are. Hopefully, it won't come to blows but who knows.

In fact, it's more annoying if they were Monne Sikhs as they are the last people you would expect of taking the mick out of you. The others, it's kind of expected.

It happened another time too on the train. I was with another Singh and his wife and these bozos walked past and shouted 'Oh Singheh!! I actually looked back and was ready to confront them but we were getting on the train and they were getting off. It was too late.