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41 minutes ago, puzzled said:

Yh I read how the early punjabis who moved to that part of the world married Mexican women but they never taught their kids punjabi or kept their kesh. 

There is alot of opportunity there to convert sikhi to latin america. The abrahamic missionaries are very good at bringing non-believers into their fold.

What is needed is a revolution of Sikhi in latin america. Do away with pushing the 1950s SGPC rehit maryada narrative they need to be khalsa to be a sikh and instead rather push the narrative that focus the mind on gurbani and practise sikhi that way. Pull back the stops that hold people from connecting to Sikhi on mass.

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Just now, genie said:

There is alot of opportunity there to convert sikhi to latin america. The abrahamic missionaries are very good at bringing non-believers into their fold.

What is needed is a revolution of Sikhi in latin america. Do away with pushing the 1950s SGPC rehit maryada narrative they need to be khalsa to be a sikh and instead rather push the narrative that focus the mind on gurbani and practise sikhi that way. Pull back the stops that hold people from connecting to Sikhi on mass.

If that's the mentality you are going to move forward in your life, then don't complain when a member of your sikh kaum gets converted. Convert your own to sikhism first.

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2 minutes ago, muscleman said:

If that's the mentality you are going to move forward in your life, then don't complain when a member of your sikh kaum gets converted. Convert your own to sikhism first.

what you mean by that?

Sikhi is not limited to one group of people it is meant to be spread all over the world.

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15 minutes ago, genie said:

what you mean by that?

Sikhi is not limited to one group of people it is meant to be spread all over the world.

Nor is Christianity or Islam,  or Hinduism etc don't you know?  Why do you complain,when they convert one of ours' then? They are also doing what we want to do, spread. Live and let live then. Accept the consequences for our actions. Stop complaining.

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Yes, I am a sikh.  I do want sikhi to spread but I am not god. The missionaries are targetting the marginalized and the vulnerable people of Punjab, not the educated and the wealthy.  Why are they not taking responsibility of stopping them from becoming their targets? We are not allowed to convert. We may speak about it but we are not allowed to convert anyone, that I know. If sikhi were meant to be given freely to every Tom and whoever walked past you, there would be no requirement for charan pahul or khande di pahul  rehat to start with. This requirement is also Gurmat. It's a pre-requisite for any admission into the sikhi or the sikh religion. As far as I am concerned, bring our lost sikhs back into sikhi first then think of spreading it to the outsiders.  And forget about the four doors policy,  we all know who they remain open for. Why do these  four doors suddenly shut for those that are one of us and belong to our panth? Are they not being very selective by shutting them?  Why have they kicked out so many kirtaniyehs from singing praises of waheguru from Darbar sahib? They were kirtaniyehs singing gurbani kirtan, which formed part of the Gurmat, weren't they? An example would be Bhai Harcharan Singh Khalsa and many others. Why do these four doors suddenly shut without any explanation? Everyday we observe sikhs attacking and abusing other sikhs making a spectacle of themselves the world over. Is this also gurmat? Gurmat is Baptism, why don't we do Amrit da parchaar and plead with every single lost sikh to come back into the sikhi fold, instead of concentrating on those missionaries and the tactics they use to convert people? Why don't we learn and  use the same tactics to convert our lost sikhs back into sikhi? You know they use money and lots of it?  Well. someone is paying for it.

96 Crore is the target to start with.

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