The refers to the article, “Beef-eating banned under Sikhism: Dalit criticism of Jats must stop“, by Principal Gurdial Singh (DV Oct. 1, 1999 р.7).
It looks Sant G. Singh is so brahminised that he cannot tolerate even a single word against brahminical pollution as well as hegemony of upper caste Sikhs. He is not even ready to consider the questions raised by Sikh scholars like Dr. (Mrs.) K.K. Sidhu and Prof. Gurnam Singh and a respected Punjabi Dalit scholar, L.R. Balley. DV has raised the Debate on the “Slow death of Sikhism” with all good intentions. Both DV and its Editor are great friends of Sikhs. The Editor suffered a jail sentence for the sake of Sikhs. Yet the Sant is not prepared to tolerate the criticisms of a well-wisher.
Some Sikhs are busy misinterpreting the Gurbani by writing Kranti Gita to please the Manuwadis. This Kranti Gita used to be published regularly on every Monday in a Manubadi paper, Daily Punjab Kesari, from Jalandhar. The brahminical forces are reinterpreting the Gurbani to see that Sikhs remain subordinate to brahminism.
All the three scholars – Sardar Gurnam Singh Muktsar, Venerable L.R. Balley and Dr. K.K. Sidhu are well- versed in the principles of Sikhism.
Dalit gurus ridiculed: Though Sikhism was established to found a casteless society, today it is steeped in casteism. The Sikh intelligentsia has failed to establish a parallel Sikh social order as well as a Sikh culture.
In the Sikh holy book there is the collection of verses of 36 sants and gurus of Sikh dharma. A majority of them, out of the 36, belonged to Dalit- Bahujan community. Sikh ragies, pathies and other kirtan-walas when reading the banies of Guru Kabir Sahib and Guru Ravidas, they deliberately call them as bhakatas while the fact is they too are Sikh gurus.
Who is insulting the Guru Granth Sahib by calling the gurus as bhakatas? Will the Sant Gurdial Singh answer this question.
Badal stooging Hindus: Punjab Chief Minister P.S. Badal has become the darling of the Vaidik Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee only because he helped the Manuwadis to play havoc in Punjab.
Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar had studied Sikhism deeply. He observed that Chamars who became Sikhs were called Ramdasia, Chura called Majahbi, Julaha as Kavirpanthi. This gave him a shock and he decided against embracing Sikhism which was discriminating against Dalits as under Hinduism.
Surki-bindi: Gurdial Singh has defended surkhi-bindi by saying that Sikh women applied it only as a makeup. But they do not apply the surkhi-bindi merely for the makeup but to please the Hindus. Karva chauth varta and also worship the Hindu gods are part of their hinduisation (enslavement).
I belong to Himachal Pradesh which is called the land of gods (devbhumi), beside the Punjab. Huge crowds of Punjabi Sikhs come on every Tuesday and every navratra days to the Hindu temples in HP. Are they not insulting the Guru Granth Sahib in which idol worship and having the varta are strictly prohibited? Is Sikhism not dying in the land of the gurus?
President Zail Singh was a great person of this country. Why he was ridiculed as guli-garh, a Backward (Tarkhan) caste in Punjab.
Gurdial Singh says that the “Sikh loves all and all love Sikhs. But I don’t agree with this. If so how could such mass murders of over 3,000 Sikhs took place in the 1984 “Blue Star Operation and again after the assassination of Mrs. Indira Gandhi? If the Sikhs are loved by all why thousands of Sikhs were killed?
