This post is for Manjit Panghalia and Amanpreet Kaur Bahia, brave martyrs of traditionalism and its misogyny of South Asian women.
Let not a day go by that their murderers feel guilt and shame for their horrible deeds.
Let not a day go by that the oppressors of wives and daughters are reminded that their actions bring guilt and shame to the South Asian community.
Even Baba Nanak hangs his head in shame.
When the whole mankind takes birth
from the woman and there is need
for woman to perpetuate
the life cycle asked,
then why is woman villified?
-- Guru Nanak Dev Ji
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Jo bole so nihaal:
Sat Sri Apni!
Misogyny including the oppression of daughters and wives of Sikh families goes against what Baba Nanak preached.
This includes the favoring of sons and the denigration of daughters practised with relish by misguided parents who no longer know the truth.
To then proclaim that one is a true Sikh when the blood of daughters and mothers are secretly washed off one's hands is to practise an blood sacrifice unworthy of a Sikh.
Any Sikh who tend uses violence to cover their tracks is Sikh in name only.
Not even Baba Nanak will acknowledge what little good deeds you do, unless the truth causes you to admit your deceit.
meanwhile, some of those spoiled momma's boys grow up to become gangsters like Bindy Johal, the Dosanj crime families, and their associates in 30 or 40 tiny gangs in BC.
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And what do the parents say of their errant sons?
Either they say "My son is a good man!" or they had no idea at all.
Then there are the few parents who quietly enable their sons' evil ways.
Such superstitious practices include the tradition of spoiling the boys while treating the girls with disrespect not worthy of Sikh ideals.
In a sense, the offending party is better off being Hindu, because this kind of misogyny was imposed on Punjab people by thir Hindu overlords.
Thus, in a sense, traditional values actually appear to be borrowed from Hindu and Muslim culture prior to the emancipation of both men and women by the Guru Granth Sahib.
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I doubt we will ever see this Shaheed's picture at the gurudwara.
Yes, Charnjit Singh Bal laments about this too:
"Exposed to the prolonged influence of prevalent socio-religious prejudices, customs, traditions' dogmas and taboos of tge predominant ritualistic Hindu society of India, many Sikhs have misconceived the novel concept and objectives of the Guru's langar..."
Here Bal refers to the langar, but it applies too to the way a few husbands' parents treat their daughter-in-law as though Hindu tradition is also Sikh.
If any of the Gurus treated their daughters this way, then it would have been recorded and sung about kirtans.
Since it is not, any husbands' parents who mistreat their daughter-in-law are interfering in the marriage of their sons.
And to act in such a manner is not Sikh.
Steve, next time I'm up in your part of the world, we should get some coffee or tea.
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