Some home truths for Ravi Singh Khalsa Aid

[Premi5]

2 hours ago, proactive said:

You need to understand how PR works. Ravi Singh in his 23 years of running KA has become a master manipulator and master PR guy and here it shows. The interview has been arranged so that he can do his usual PR.  Firstly, we all know what the accusation against Ravi Singh are, the main one is that he spends the majority of the donations on non-Sikhs. There is no doubt there are a lot of other accusations being thrown around and what this interview does is to put those accusations to him so that he can say these are false.  He starts off with the usual defence mechanism, he is doing what he does and he could easily have made more money by doing something else, in this interview he claims he could have become a Baba but in previous videos he claims he could have become a millionaire by doing business in the UK. This is the kind of defence that one gets for people like Ravi Singh when they cannot address the issue itself. Honestly, this is the exact defence that many fraudsters use when challenged on their fraud. If someone thinks that fraud is not possible because KA is registered and overseen by the charity commission that they are deluded. Fraud can take place before the money is even accounted for. Charity commission only sees what been banked, money can easily be siphoned off before it gets banked. 

What master PR guys like Ravi Singh do is choose who and when they answer the charges put against them. It is obvious that Ravi Singh has chosen the channel and the interviewer and there is no doubt that he chosen the questions to be asked. We all know how Ravi Singh is very adept at using the blocking function on twitter whenever he get challenged on his work. 

Let's look at his answer about how he is now focussing on Punjab. On the Shaheed families, KA has only acted as a liaison for diaspora Sikhs to donate money for the Shaheed families. It has not actually given money itself. He does not make that distinction and part of the attacks on him are why he is not actually giving money to Shaheed families and only passes money on to them from diaspora Sikhs. He says he wants to set up medical clinics in Malwa and yet he wants medical organisations to contact him so that he can do so. Why is that in Punjab the sewa is always incumbent on others coming forward, does KA ever ask for other organisations to come forward when they go to Bangladesh to help Rohingyas? No, but for Punjab sewa he always lays these conditions, mainly because he can then blame the non-response from them as a get out clause for why he did not do anything for Punjab. 

Yes, KA did sewa at the morcha but so did other Jathebandis and the vast majority of the food and milk was supplied by the villages. I would be surprised if KA even did 1% of the sewa at the borders that the villages of Punjab and Haryana did. Even the village where the Gujjars attacked the Kisans, Inayatpura sent ration to the borders and this was the very village that KA could not even be bothered to go to even when it was clear that Amritdhari Bibis were being threatened by Gujjars. Now think why that was? It is because Ravi Singh is a leftist and like all leftists, Muslims are his favourite community. He only gives pro-Panth statements so that he can keep the money flowing in from the Panthic diaspora. 

PR and positive image is all well and good but it is soon forgotten in the world of realpolitik. Governments don't work on emotion, if Ravi Singh think that by spending the Panth's money on non-Sikhs will somehow earn us goodwill then he will be sadly mistaken. Look at what we did for the Kashmiri women when they were threatened with sexual assault by Hindutvis all over India. Sikhs spent lakhs of rupees to get them safely home and yet when only a few months later the Kashmiri paedophile case came up, how many Kashmiri Muslims stood up for us? To be honest Ravi Singh is an emotional fo.ol and more than most in our community. 

If making Hindus jealous of us was all we wanted to do as a Panth, then we have been doing that for centuries before KA came about and we are winning hands down but is that REALLY what our objective is as a Panth? 

This another classic defence of fraudsters. How can they be fraudsters when they 'officially' worked for nothing for many years when setting up their 'fraud'. As for JK Rowling's donation, none of that money will be spent on Sikhs and that is a fact. So what difference does it make for poor Sikhs that she donated to KA? The only thing it did was to raise his profile so that he could have an even bigger claim to a Nobel prize. 

The easy answer to this, why even have a choice of Patel or Khan, why not choose SINGH and KAUR every time.

That sounds like a cop out. It doesn't matter whether the money available is pennies, it should be spent on our people especially as it is been sought as DASWANDH which has always been for Sikh causes. Everyone knows the SGPC is corrupt so is that a good reason why Ravi Singh should not be held to account? 

What Ravi Singh has done in this interview is to make sure that the interviewer has chosen to put accusations to him which are outrageous and which he can easily refute. This is a bit like, say if someone is a murderer and he has murdered two people, in a similar way an interviewer could put to him. "you are accused of murdering ten people" and the murderer could quite rightly say " These are shamefaced lies, I have not murdered 10 people" which is actually quite true but it hides the fact that he did murder two people. 

Ravi Singh's defence of his pay is quite disingenuous, he present the gift aid (25%) that the government gives to a charity for every donation that they get from taxpayers as if that is some kind of grant when it is actually a refund on the tax that the taxpayer had paid when he got the money either through work or through his business. This is actually the first time I have ever come across such an excuse that a charity has offered to justify their wages. He probably expects the viewers to not understand what gift aid actually is so it looks like the government is paying his wages. 

[GurjantGnostic]

18 hours ago, MisterrSingh said:

Cutting off heads for Allah and Jehovah to cutting off heads for Waheguru?

Yeah bro.  

[MisterrSingh]

1 minute ago, GurjantGnostic said:

Yeah bro.  

You're sick, man, you're sick!

[Ranjeet01]

Found this tweet. More Singh's are questioning:

Sikhs are a community that, in the midst of their own struggle for survival, cares more about others than its own. I no longer know if it is a good thing or not

[Ranjeet01]

 

 

[proactive]

Here is a report where even the Langar at the Gurdwara is being affected by the cost of living crisis in the UK. The local families have a rotation system where they organise the langar in the Gurdwara and because of the number of non-Sikhs coming for the Langar this is causing them to get into financial difficulties. This just shows how pointless the donations to KA and other such charities are. When our own people even in the west are facing financial difficulties then should this not cause us to rethink what we are doing. There is no doubt that the Langar should always take place but maybe the Gurdwaras should insist on just basic langar of daal and roti and  take off the pressure off Sikh families in the area to make Langar with costly dishes. 

 

 

[MisterrSingh]

1 hour ago, Ranjeet01 said:

Found this tweet. More Singh's are questioning:

Sikhs are a community that, in the midst of their own struggle for survival, cares more about others than its own. I no longer know if it is a good thing or not

When this world continues along its unjust, and illogical trajectory, expect the next generations of Sikhs who aren't sheep to turn on the ones within our own community who led us into this situation. They aren't going to hold back. I may seem like I cross the line at times, but I know I definitely hold back. Future Singhs with anakh especially in the West aren't going to be so "chal ho". Going up against rival religions who outnumber us in the millions is impossible. So they'll turn their attentions to cleaning up in-house to ensure whoever we have left will have a stark reminder of what happens when you act stupidly and hurt your own interests. It won't be pretty.

[MisterrSingh]

9 minutes ago, proactive said:

There is no doubt that the Langar should always take place but maybe the Gurdwaras should insist on just basic langar of daal and roti and  take off the pressure off Sikh families in the area to make Langar with costly dishes. 

With the benefits of increased wealth and general economic prosperity of Western Sikhs, this seems to have had a negative affect on attitudes regarding these particular issues. I've seen it myself where our people's nakhre when it comes to the dishes available for langar are becoming quite obscene. Langar isn't a catering service. It's a reminder to be humble and nourish yourself with basic staples. 

[Premi5]

@shastarSingh how well known is Ravi Singh and Khalsa Aid in Panjab?

Do you seem him in Panjabi newspapers or TV?

[shastarSingh]

21 minutes ago, Premi5 said:

@shastarSingh how well known is Ravi Singh and Khalsa Aid in Panjab?

Do you seem him in Panjabi newspapers or TV?

I don't really watch much tv news or read newspapers.

Ravi Singh is not a bad guy. He is a good sikh. He needs to be panthic and shud not waste panth's money.