Sikhs are Feeling the Lash after Forsaking India

Terror Attack on Sikhs in USA: Some Stray Thoughts

Misguided Sikhs defaming their homeland

Sikhs in the USA will not forget in a hurry the earlier attack on a Sikh gurudwara and now the latest  defacing of a gurudwara in California..  This community who have settled in the USA, hoping for a brighter future has fallen prey to the ills that dog American society. A gunman armed with an AK47 rifle entered the gurudwara  or temple and shot 6 Sikhs dead before he was taken out by a Police shooter, who also recieved multiple gunshot wound. Many more have been shot in hate crimes.

One has sympathy  with the Siks killed, but there should be no special alarm as it is well known that with the lax gun laws, where anybody can own a gun, such crimes are more the rule than the exception. 

 One other thing I observed was the local American Sikhs referring to the Sikh temple as a Church. Somehow this gels badly as the US policemen were referring to the  shrine as a Sikh Temple and yet I wonder why the Sikhs were referring to a temple as a church.

 It is well known that the USA is a violent society and during my visits there  normally keep to myself . Prudence is better than valor. The Sikhs are unfortunately caught  in a cross fire. There is anarchy and guns all around and not forgetting that this could also be a hate crime. The Sikhs have chosen the USA as a homeland and I find they can't crib now. Another jarring  fact coming out  was a statement of one of the US Sikh leaders who emphasised that Sikhs are not Hindus. This is silly, this man needs to be tought Sikh history where Sikhism is one of the distinct off shoots of Hinduism. The Great Guru Gobind was  a worshipper of the Goddess Kali. Read his Chandi di Var in the Dasam Granth.

All said and done its a sad end for some Sikhs who went to America in search of the elusive El Dorado.

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