SIKH TURBAN DAY 2011

Tomorrow - Today in India - is Sikh Turban Day.  In honour of that, I am posting my favourite turban picture  (I know you've seen it before.  It's still my favourite!)

Sant Ji Tying His Turban - 1984?

Ans my favourite turban video.  (How about a forty under your turban?)

DELHI POGROM TRIBUTE 2010

I made this video to acknowledge the events of early November 1984 and to commemorate our beloved shaheeds.



My dear friend (and little sister, Kamal Kaur (Badyal) gifts us with the soundtrack.

VIDEOS OF KHALISTAN RALLY!!

SikhRevolution has given permission to embed these videos of the rally held at Jagreon on 28 October 2010.  Please watch and listen and be inspired.  Or appalled.  Or scared.  Or however you react to the idea of Khalistan.  As I wrote the other day, 2 Lakh (2,00,000 OR 200,000 in Western numbers) attended this.  Each person attending (except, of course, the RAW agents and other governmental infiltrators) puts him/herself in danger from the GOI and, worse, the notorious Punjab police.


Please, do not misuse these videos in any way!

PART ONE



PART TWO



PART THREE



PART FOUR



PART FIVE



INTERVIEW WITH SIMRANJIT SINGH MANN AT THE RALLY

Storming The Temple, a video

This video is primarily about the attach on Darbar Sahib and the events and conditions leading up to it.

I can't say I agree with everything in it, but it in more balanced than most.  I do wish that  SaintSoldiers would move their logo so we could read the subtitles.

From The History Channel.  In English.

KIVEN BHULAAN - A VIDEO

THE DIRECTORS

I do not want to say too much about this entry made by Japman Kaur, age 12 and Triman Singh of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. I'll just say that their Gian Kaur is expressing openly the feelings that I keep unexpressed, close to my heart for 25 years.

Please go vote for this video at:

http://www.sikhnet.com/filmfestival/2009/kivein-bhullaan-how-do-we-forget/

It's worth the trip!

The Beard of Swaran Singh - Part Two.

I am sitting here near Seattle on the hottest day ever recorded here. 102F, 38.9C. Not all that hot in Amritsar or Las Vegas, but deadly hot to these weak Seattlites. I'm OK, with a fan and a spray bottle of water.

So, for a summer break...

I know I have posted about Bhai Swaran Singh and his beard before, but I just came across this Youtube video and want to share it with you.

First, a still from the video:


Then the caption from the video:

Mar. 11 - A Canadian man who has grown a beard that measures over seven feet long is all set to be endorsed in the record books.

Swaran Singh, a music teacher from Canada who is visiting his native Punjab, is the pride of all the Sikhs for sporting a beard that measures over 7 feet long.

He expects it to be endorsed in the Guinness Book of World Records.

As a devout Sikh, Singh wanted to inspire the young members of his community to retain the hair and not crop it.

(SOUNDBITE) (Punjabi) SWARAN SINGH: "God blessed every man with beard, but I have received special blessing from Him. I have done nothing special except caring it (beard). I have never applied any special hair oil on my beard and of course, I haven't done this for the sake of Guinness record."

And, at last, the video itself:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvnWUftW4uE

Happy summer to all (in the Northern Hemisphere). Happy winter to you in the hemisphere of Oz.

Slumdog Sikhs

I received this letter from IHRO today. Please read the letter and watch the video. Before going any farther, let me say I know nothing of this particular group. They seem legitimate. I do know that the conditions that our sister and brother Sikhs are living in are disgusting. I also know that we are, on the whole, a wealthy community and have the resources to alleviate these subhuman conditions.

Beyond that...idols in the Gurudwara Sahib? A lizard running across Shri Guru Granth Sahib Ji? What they state at the end is absolutely true. Moist eyes will accomplish nothing. Action must be taken. I leave it to you, my dear ones to choose what action you will or won't take.

The letter:

Waheguru Jee Ka Khalsa Waheguru Jee Ki Fateh

SLUMDOG SIKHS - A DOCUMENTARY ON THE PLIGHT OF SIKHS IN DELHI
Video Link: Watch Video

A study, conducted by SHS representatives, on Sikhs living in Delhi’s Sultanpuri Area has found that nearly 100% per cent of Sikhs of the area live here in sub-human conditions.
The plight of Sikhs of the area is presented through this documentary. Kindly visit the link below. Your suggestions are welcome. For any details contact info@sikhbusinesspages.com


Also Visit us at : Sikhs Helping Sikhs

We need volunteers to work on this project, so please come forward and help these Sikhs. Till now we have got a committment from various individuals and organisations for sponsoring 110 children in the area. We also have commitments from some individuals for reconstruction of Gurudwara Sahib.


"Save Life.. Register at www.Blood4All.co.in"
Waheguru Jee Ka Khalsa Waheguru Jee Ki Fateh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM1s4CJ5-pQ

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Mool Mantar

This is Harshdeep's rendering of the Mool Mantar from Rang De Basanti. Only the video on this one doesn't have the professional actors from the movie. Much nicer to watch.
And always perfect to listen to. I think this is the most beautiful version I have heard.


Except, of course, the one with my Dad, my husband and our son.






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNb1efvF9J0&feature=related

Remember Du'a Khalid Aswad - murdered 7 April 2007

On April 7, 2007, Du'a Khalid Aswad was brutally murdered - executed by stoning - by the male members of her community. Her crime? Falling in love with the wrong man. An honour - or rather dishonour - killing. I am unable to bring myself to write the details; they are too agonising. Please go to this link if you have the stomach for it.

UPDATE… **WARNING** EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO Iraqis Stone Girl to Death Over Loving Wrong Boy

Here is a slighly less gruesome account that aired on CNN. The unexpurgated version was censored and removed by YouTube.

Du'a Khalid Stoning

A final irony to her story is this. The civil authorities dug up her mutilated body from its unmarked grave. An autopsy revealed - among other things - that this filthy slut that had so dishonoured her family and her faith was a virgin.

I know that I can sometimes be a bit preachy, but there will be no preaching today. The facts speak for themselves.

I will note, however, that my Sitemeter informs me that the most used link on this blog is the one on the widget to stop 'honour' killings. If you haven't yet, please look at the 'honour' killing widget off in the right hand column.

I am very happy and pleased that I belong to a religion and a community where our women and girls are valued equally with our men and boys, with all the same rights, obligations and freedoms. I am very happy that none of our children will ever be killed for loving the 'wrong' person.

These photos, as well as the images in the videos were made by witnesses enjoying the spectacle. The large concrete block by Ms. Aswad's head in the bottom picture is the instrument of her death after about a half hour's torture.

Parveen Kaur - 3 Videos - Sikhs Arrested in Attack on Dera Head Case

Time and events seem to have gotten away from me. This has been sitting in my drafts folder for several days. Sorry for the delay. The second video is with the family of Bibi Parveen Kaur, whose case I am following and who is in my thoughts and prayers, and I hope in yours, as well.

This was posted in IHRO.

There are videos of interviews with the families of those arrested in the Case of Attempted Assassination of Dera Head Case

3 Videos - Sikhs Arrested in Attack on Dera Head Case

WAHEGURU JI KA KHALSA WAHEGURU JI KI FATEH

WE just wanted to inform you that three new videos have been added to
Largest Punjab based Sikh Multimedia Website, http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/

(Video - 1)
Bhai DaljitSingh with family of Bhai Swarn Singh village Kot Dharmu,
District Mansa. Swarn Singh had made a bid to assassinate dera sauda
sirsa (dss) head gurmeet ram raheem. Swarn Singh is presently in
Karnal Jail. (Dated 20 March, 2008).

Play Video:http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/shf/2008_03_20_BDS_in_home_%20Bhai_Swaran_singh_Kot_Dharmu.html
If This Links Do not Work - Visit http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/

(Video - 2)
Bhai Daljit Singh with Family of Bibi Parveen at Village Bhame Kalan,
District Mansa. Parveen Kaur is niece of Shaheed Bhai Lashman Singh
Babbar (Alias Bhai Bashir Mohammad). Parveen is charged with offence
of knowingly keeping explosive used to make assassinate bid on the
life of dss head. (Dated 20 March 2008)

Play Video:http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/shf/2008_03_20_BDS_in_home_%20Bibi_parveen_kaur_Bhamme_Kalan.html

If This Links Do not Work - Visit http://www.sikhsiyasat.com

(Video - 3)
Bhai DaljitSingh with family of Hushiar Singh village Jhanda Kalan
District Mansa. with offence of knowingly keeping explosive used to
make assassinate bid on the life of dss head. (Dated 20 March 2008)

Play Video:http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/shf/2008_03_20_BDS_in_home_%20Bhai_Hoshiar_singh_Jhanda_kala.html
If This Links Do not Work - Visit http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/

Keep Visiting:

http://www.sikhshahadat.com/

http://www.bhindranwale.net/

http://www.sikhsiyasat.com/

http://www.sikhstudentsfederation.com/

WHY TRY TO FIT IN?
YOU WERE BORN TO STAND OUT!

Raaj Khalsa Da Khalistan

Half caste brahmin jatt who thinks she's a Sikh, indeed. People who don't like me, really don't like me. Well, I guess I showed him, lol!

In my wanderings around the Internet, I came across this Video. I like it a lot. I hope you like it, too. And I promise not to use it for one of my strange little song parodies.



VideoGully

The (Non)Deportation of Laibar Singh - A Video

While surfing YouTube today, I came across this report from 10 Dec 07. Good grief! Almost a month ago. I thought you would probably enjoy it. I am also including the link to that page, as I have noticed that YouTube Videos in blogs sometimes mysteriously disappear.





I'm curious about something. No one here has commented on the new header picture. I would think that a lonely body deserted on the railroad tracks might be sufficiently provocative that some one might say something.

You Are In Lion Country!

I don't usually do this, but this blog has been so unrelentingly grim for the past few posts, and of course, come October 31 and thereafter, we won't have a lot to laugh about for a while, that I have decided to treat you all to this little gem. It's only 14 seconds long, so even on a slow connexion, it doesn't take much time to download. Please watch it! May such be the end of all our enemies, that is, all the evil people in the world!!