Why sikhs hate muslims so much

To remember, but without the hatred. Sikh families, apart from Bengalis, were the worst affected by its aftermath and unarguably so. My ancestors picked themselves up only to fall back again in We faced extreme brutality at the hands of our fellow countrymen after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her trusted Sikh bodyguards.

The Khalistani terror movement ended up killing more of our own. Through the course of time, we were harshly taught the futility of hatred. Moreover, it asserts that Sikhs must never be the ones to draw the sword first.

Our collective history has been witness to violence, disruption, Partition, detachment, harassment. At the same time, asking one generation to pay for the faults of another is simply nonsensical at best and unacceptable at worst.

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Whether you live in India or overseas, you can do it here. Support Our Journalism. Enough of the violence from the government. Its time for the Balkanization of India! Carve out a new country from India to create a new homeland for the Muslims, called Urduistan. Along with a homeland for Sikhs as well, called Khalistan. Urduistan Zindabad! Khalistan Zindabad! We have already given muslims two countries one is Pakistan and other us Bangladesh now if they dont want to stay in india can go to Pakistan and Bangladesh and they have 56 countries more to go and what khalistan are you talking about in which you will take only India Punjab what about Pakistan punjab which have so many Sikhs religious sites.

Beautiful response to the idiot above. All they want is khalistan and causing problems and now taking sides with the Muslims. If some sikhs saved their muslim neighbors from attacks, they did what their religion ordains them to do in such a situation. They would do the same to hindus caught in a similar situation. Koi bole ram ram koi khudai……………. I am proud to be Sikh and til there is blood in my veins, will save every victim of majoritarian violence.

We know how to protect our land.. He worked with the Sikh Coalition to sue the transportation authority over a policy against turbans and won. Musician Sonny Singh is a member of the Brooklyn Bhangra band. In his other life, he's a community organizer who leads workshops on race, religion and social justice. Hate crime. Last year, multiple Sikhs told CNN that they felt no safer , 15 years after the terrorist attacks. In a gunman walked into a gurdwara , a Sikh place of worship, in Wisconsin and killed six people.

Sikhs have also been subject to racial profiling outside the US. Last year, designer and actor Waris Ahluwalia spoke out after he was prevented from boarding an airplane in Mexico by local security agents after he refused to remove his turban during a security screening.

Ahluwalia said Aeromexico staff and security screeners told him to buy a ticket for a different carrier after he refused to remove his turban. And then I realized, clearly, they have not been trained properly. I knew yelling will not do anything. It is about education and the policy," Ahluwalia told CNN at the time. For Sikhs, the turban is not about culture, it's an article of faith that is mandatory for men.

Turbans were featured in "The Sikh Project," a exhibition that celebrated the Sikh American experience. British photographers Amit and Naroop partnered with the Sikh Coalition for the show. This photo is of New York actor and designer Waris Singh Ahluwalia, who was kicked off an Aero Mexico flight in February after refusing to remove his turban at security. Harpreet Kaur, a producer at Maryland Public Television, founded Sach Productions, a media organization that creates films focused on minority issues.

She was the first Sikh reporter in Washington. Harmandeep Singh, a high school senior in New York, arrived from India in Ishprit Kaur's mother is a nurse and inspired her daughter to become one, too. Kaur was also drawn to the medical field because her father is battling Parkinson's disease.

Japjee Singh, like many Sikh kids, was bullied for years in suburban Atlanta schools. In , the Department of Justice settled a landmark case with the DeKalb County school system that paved the way for better protection from bullying. He was the only Sikh child in his public school and became the first Sikh American to be granted a religious accommodation to serve in the military since a s ban that prevents Sikhs from serving. Kalsi deployed to Afghanistan and now works to end religious discrimination in the military.

He converted to Sikhism 48 years ago at his college in Michigan and has been living in Fairfax, Virginia, for the last 30 years.

Raghuvinder Singh travels from his home in New Jersey to Oak Creek, Wisconsin, every week to see his father, Punjab Singh, who was shot in the face in the mass shooting there. Punjab Singh remains paralyzed and communicates through blinking his eyes.

He worked with the Sikh Coalition to sue the transportation authority over a policy against turbans and won. Musician Sonny Singh is a member of the Brooklyn Bhangra band. In his other life, he's a community organizer who leads workshops on race, religion and social justice.

Sikhism was founded in the 16th century by Guru Nanak in Punjab, an area that is now divided between India and Pakistan. Nanak rejected the rituals involved with other South Asian religions and stressed the importance of good deeds such as serving others and treating all people equally. The monotheistic religion has more than 25 million followers worldwide and about , in the United States.

Lawyer and activist Valarie Kaur says the threat of violence seems to have become mainstreamed. Her grandfather settled in California a century ago, and she knows firsthand from her family that discrimination against Sikhs existed long before Despite the current climate, both Singh and Kaur expressed optimism for the future. Both are vocal about their Sikh identities and talk about landmark changes they hope will make things better in America.

They point to younger generations of Sikhs who are fiercely proud of their outward identities and to people like Rana Singh Sodhi, who lost two brothers within a matter of months and became a strong voice for his community. The Chevron station had been the pride of his older brother Balbir, who arrived in the United States in and worked hard to achieve the American dream.

That dream shattered in , and now a small marble-and-granite memorial bears these words etched in gold lettering: "He was killed simply because of the way he looked.

Because I sure know if I had that it would have made things clearer to me earlier. I grew up in a very religious sikh family in Canada. Although my parents were not amrit shak they were pretty religious, and so was I. I went to the gudwara regularly did my seva, prayed. But I wasn't a full practicing sikh i ate meat, cut my hair but despite that I was more religious then most young sikhs.

Growing up I absolutly hated muslims. I cannot even begin to emphasize how much i actually did hate them. I hated Islam and everything that it stood for. I use to tell everybody to hate them as well. And it actually worked, my cousins my family friends.

I would tell my younger cousins if they ever made friends with a muslim I would kick their ass. I picked on young muslim girls who wore Hijjab. I would find muslims online swear at them and at Islam may allah forgive me. When ever I would have to write a paper it would be on Oppresion of women in Islam, and or how muslims are devil worshippers.

My hate for them was extreme I was gonna get a tatoo on my back in arabic writing saying all the muslims are gonna die. I think about it now as to why I hated muslims and islam so much and it seems clear to me.

I was a proud Sikh Jatt girl,extremley proud. Whenever I would hear about what the guru's had to go through because of the Mongols or that era I'd wanna kill a muslim. I would sit in the gudwara listen to the baba tell stories of the guru's and just get pissed. I don't know about gudwara's around the world but in Canada in the langar hall they ususally have so many paintings of muslims killing sikhs and the guru's.

One day I met a Muslim guy at university,and we began going out. I don't know why I even went out with him but I did. Eventually we got married, my parents were okay with it. We Had a really nice wedding. I had already told him that I would die before becoming a muslim, and he was okay with that.

As I stayed in their home the first few months of my married life. I began to see them as people. They were actually nice people. They never once asked me to convert which surprised me. His father was very religious, I use to often see him praying or having religious talks with my husband.

Even though I had decided okay maybe muslims are nice.. One day I was like hmm let me find out what islam is. I began reading about it. It was nothing like I thought it was. It made so much sense to me. But that wasn't gonna change me being a Sikh. One day I asked my husband to have a debate with me about sikhism and islam.

My husband never wins debates but he won this one. So i thought maybe im not that knowledgable in sikhism. I began taking classes and studied it day in day out. The more I studied it the more I got scared, the fact that Islam might be the right religon shook me.

I couldn't give it up, my pride this is who I was a sikh, my anncestors faught to their death so they could keep their faith. Here is some of what i learned He was god mom why didn't god kill the muslims.

My mom's answer was he wanted to show them.. I did further research and found out that this was part of guru's plans if they wanted they could have done magic but did not want to.. So god can die? If god can't protect himself how is he gonna help me? Then some say they were sent down from the akal purath to show the way they had a part of god in them.