Posted on 08/20/2010 11:29:44 AM PDT by James C. Bennett
SRINAGAR: Sikhs in the Kashmir Valley have received anonymous letters from Islamic militants asking them to either embrace Islam and join the protests against civilian killings or pack up and leave the Valley. The 60,000-strong Sikh community is the single largest minority group in the Valley.
An organisation of Kashmiri Sikhs said that several community members have received these letters. "Community members have received unsigned letters at various places," said All Party Sikh Coordination Committee (ASCC) coordinator Jagmohan Singh Raina. He said the community has decided to stay put and fight these "evil designs" at a meeting in Srinagar on Thursday.
Raina quoted a letter as saying: "When you are enjoying the joys here, why can't you share the grief and sorrow of Kashmiris as well? We know you are afraid of bullets... Hold protests inside gurdwaras or leave Kashmir." He added, "Some letters have asked Sikhs to embrace Islam."
Raina urged both factions of the Hurriyat, JKLF and PoK-based United Jihad Council to take serious note of the threats to maintain amity and brotherhood in the Valley.
Hardline separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has reassured the Sikhs saying they shouldn't feel threatened and should ignore the "fake letters". He assured the community that nobody would force them to join the protests.
Earlier, Geelani has made an emotional appeal against forcing minorities to join the protests and said harming them would be like "inflicting a wound on his (Geelani's) body".
The state unit of Akali Dal (Badal) president Ajeet Singh Mastana described the threats as acts by anti-social elements. "The threats can't break us and reduce our love for our motherland," he said.
For other reasons why, try this:
21 Indian Sikhs vs. 10,000 Afghans on 12 September, 1897.
Sikhs are not somebody you want to threaten or mess with. They are a warrior class.
We have nearly 300,000 in Canada. Something for Islamic extremists to consider.
300,000 Sikhs, that is.
Note to muzzies:
Don’t screw with the Sikhs.............
You have been warned............
Sikh and ye shall find....................
Awesome...
The battle of Saragarhi: It is a tale of 21 heroes who thought nothing of their lives when it came to their devotion to duty. Each one of them preferred death to surrender.
Saragarhi was a small communication post on Samana ridge in the North Western Frontier Province (NWEP). The post commander was havaldar Ishar Singh, who had 20 men under his command. To attack the post, the tribals started gathering on September 10, 1897. On the morning of September 12, when their number rose to a few thousands, they launched an attack on the post. The Sikhs fought valiantly by repulsing charge after charge by the tribals.
Finally, the number of the defenders dropped to a single man i.e. Sepoy Gurmukh Singh. Shouting Wahe Guruji ka Khalsa, wahe Guruji ki fateh, he fought like a ferocious tiger till he fell to join his comrades in death.
SRINAGAR: SikhsNon-muslims in the Kashmir Valley lower Manhattan have received anonymous letters from Islamic militants community center leaders asking them to either embrace Islam and join the protests against civilian killings infidels or pack up and leave the Valley city. The 60,000-strong Sikh conservative Jewish community is the single largest minority group in the Valley lower Manhattan.
Thanks for the post. I hadn’t heard of that battle.
At one time, the Sikhs had their own country in the Himalayas. I believe it was forcibly absorbed into India in the 1960's and this is what led to Indira Gandhi's assassination some year later.
Close, the last Sikh Kingdom, centered in Peshawar Pakistan was finally conquered by the British in the 1840’s IIRC, defeating Raja Ranjit Singh.
The British, impressed by their warfighting prowess immediately began using them all across the Raj subsequently.
No independent Sikh nation has existed since that time.
I do hope the Skihs stand up to this Islamic Terrorism.
Of course, if the Sikhs do stand up....the Liberal Media will cover it up in favor of the Islamic Terrorists...and call the Sikhs “bigot”, “intolerant”
This is just more evil from the world of Islam
I have read that the Sikh's, although less than 2% of India's population, furnish nearly 20% of its armies. They are tough hombres and good to have on your side.
“In 1975, the Kazi (Prime Minister) appealed to the Indian Parliament for a change in Sikkim’s status so that it could become a state of India. In April, the Indian Army took over the city of Gangtok and disarmed the Palace Guards. A referendum was held in which 97.5% of the voting people (59% of the people entitled to vote) voted to join the Indian Union. A few weeks later, on 16 May 1975, Sikkim officially became the 22nd state of the Indian Union and the monarchy was abolished.”
http://sikkim.gov.in/ASP/Miscc/aboutsikkim.htm
Not the same as Sikhs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh_Regiment
“It is currently one of the highest decorated regiments in the Indian Army and was at one stage the highest decorated regiment in the British Empire.” (To include 14 Victoria Crosses).
“Over its life of more than 100 years in the British Empire, the regiment distinguished itself with loyalty to the crown in various actions and operations both in India and abroad, including frontier operations, internal mutinies, the First and the Second World War.”
Just recently, a 1981 ruling that effectively barred Sikhs from service in the US military was lifted.
Which is why an idiot "patriot" murdered a Sikh clerk in Michigan? days after 9-11.
Luckily,I have always been a reader of history and geography,so that the first time I met a Sikh ,I already knew we had the Muslim fanatics as common enemies.I found the Sikhs to be "good people";and was told at least one family head expressed his approval in return.
That description of the tenets of Sikhism resembles a mixture of Old Testament and Hinduism/Buddhism.
Wild supposition: maybe the Sikhs represent one of the Lost Tribes of Israel???
DG
AFAIK, Sikhism arose as a sort of hybrid of various local Indian traditions and Islam. It isn’t accepted by most other Moslems in the same way that Sufism and Bahai is mostly rejected. Of course, Shia and Sunni, Alawite, Wahhab, and a few other strains also partly reject each other...
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