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To: Ethan Clive Osgoode

Overall, Sikhs have relatively low crime rates, low rates of reliance on public assistance, high educational attainment, high income, high net worth, and high business formation rates; as compared with other immigrant groups.

The incident that you mention was a very specific and exceptional circumstance - not the kind of wide-ranging jihad like we see in islam.

It was directed against the Indian Government (an Air India flight), in retaliation for the Indian Government’s 1984 Operation Blue Star - where the Indian Army invaded the holiest site of the Sikh religion (the Golden Temple in Amritsar) and killed thousands.

Those turbulent times are over. The pro-communist Indira Ghandi who ordered the massacre is dead (gunned down by her Sikh bodyguards), and the sectarian tensions between Hindus and Sikhs has basically healed. India even had a Sikh (Manmohan Singh) as its Prime Minister from 2004 to 2014.


63 posted on 10/22/2016 9:00:43 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: BeauBo
Sikhs have relatively low crime rates,

They are heavily involved in Canadian west-coast drug trade. Along with the other Asians who you say don't commit crimes.

65 posted on 10/22/2016 9:04:48 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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To: BeauBo
It was directed against the Indian Government (an Air India flight), in retaliation for the Indian Government’s 1984 Operation Blue Star - where the Indian Army invaded the holiest site of the Sikh religion (the Golden Temple in Amritsar) and killed thousands.

I like how you describe an act of cold blooded mindless terrorism planned executed by Sikhs in CANADA, not India. You make it sound like it was justified.

67 posted on 10/22/2016 9:08:27 PM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode (Potheads vote Dem.)
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