Ignat- "problem with Sikhs" ??? Canadians think Sikhs represent India.
In fact they represent a small area called the Punjab.
Sikh's hate Hindus. Sikh bodygaurds killed the woman they were
supposed to protect, Indira Gandi, Prime Minister of India.
Hindus are the majority population in India. A Sikh mother
and her brother had a young Canadian born Sikh killed in
India because she wanted to marry a poor man.
Unfortunelately we had educated this girl to believe in her
right to choose and the equality of social class.
Sikhs living in Canada buy huge parcels of land through huge cartels,
live communally, and retain their ideas of "honor killing".
Our social safety nets were set up to take care of those who had
paid into it over a lifetime. In Vancouver we house 400,000 elderly
from Asia who came here in their 60's never worked here, never paid taxes
and now recieve $1,200 a month in Old Age Security and
live in subsidized housing units for the elderly.
Do you see Sikh's hiring non-Sikh's ?
Or is it a pretty much Sikh only farming operation
owned by Sikhs for Sikhs and by Sikhs ?
I find it hard to support any religion that
involves wearing a costume.
The Sikhs only date from the 16th century,
not as "ancient" as you might suppose.
Sikhs started up their religion in the time period of
the Protestant Reformation,
( but they were in an area that was isolated from the times and they have gone to
great lengths to retain the dress and social customs of that time in the Punjab )
In the same time period, Michelangelo was completing the Statue of David,
and the Mona Lisa was being painted by Leonardo da Vinci. Can you imagine us
dressing the way they did in the time of Leonardo da Vinci ?
This was a time of invention, the first flush toilets were invented,
(which are still not in use in much of Asia) Copernicus published his explanation
of the earth revolving around the sun, the compound microscope was invented,
the lead pencil, the thermometor, maps, the printing press, book production.
The Sikhs remain frozen in time. Socailly, and scientifically, and in their dress.
Socially, I am for universal equality between men and women, for education,
for inclusiveness, for civil rights, these are not aspects of
Sikhism. Canada needs scientists, inventors, people who can
compete internationally in technolgy and social development
for the 21st century and into the next, creating workable solutions
to social issues, housing, recycling of waste and creating liveable
integrated communities that include music and the arts.
Not restricted by religious rules.
