Posted on 11/04/2010 4:32:10 PM PDT by Bad~Rodeo
Disappointed over the fact that the Golden Temple in Amritsar will not figure on U.S. President Barack Obama’s itinerary, Sikh leaders have urged the U.S. leader to at least visit a prominent Sikh shrine in the capital New Delhi.
Though President Obama’s itinerary will no more include a visit to the Golden Temple, there is still a ray of hope,” Giani Harnam Singh Khalsa, the head priest of Gurudwara Bangla Sahib temple in New Delhi, told India Real Time Monday.
In a letter to the U.S. embassy in New Delhi, the gurudwara committee in New Delhi has appealed to Mr. Obama to visit the temple, which has a huge interior courtyard surrounding a bathing tank and is located in the heart of the city, Mr. Singh said.
“This will partially remove the displeasure among the Sikh community about President Obama’s decision to cancel the Golden Temple visit,” he said.
Mr. Obama is arriving on a three-day visit to India starting Nov. 6. He was originally planning to visit the the Golden Temple—the Sikh religion’s holiest shrine, which is spread over 15 acres.
The Indian Sikh community has lamented Mr. Obama’s move to bypass the temple.
“I deeply regret President Obama’s decision to cancel this trip without any valid reason,” Joginder Singh, the secretary of the Golden Temple in Amritsar told India Real Time Monday.
“The Sikh diaspora yearned to see President Obama at this sanctum sanctorum and give a powerful message of global peace and harmony in the world,” Mr. Singh said, adding that he has written to the White House requesting Mr. Obama not to cancel his visit to the shrine.
An AFP report suggested that Mr. Obama’s visit to Amritsar was called off due to a quandary over what the U.S. President would wear on his head if he visited the Sikh holy spot.
One Sikh said temple rules were not asking
Please stand under a non-neutered coconut tree.
Sikhs, he’s just not that into you.
Do Sikhs and Muslims get along? I heard otherwise, and we know where O’s sympathies lie.
Also if you look at his itinerary, it doesn’t look like he has all that much time scheduled for India. I think a couple of days are allotted to meetings and sightseeing, and then it’s off to Indonesia.
Sounds like home!
Americans to Obama: stay in Dheli..please!
Makes me Sikh...
sihks and muzz’s?
see if this answers your question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8
Then ask if Obama needs security...
sihks and muzz’s?
see if this answers your question
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IstZSgniH8
Then ask if grand ghazi Obama needs security...
Sikh’s are very honorable, dedicated people. But none of this matters or fits in to our president’s personal agenda, slash, personal unpublished manifesto. Completely, 100% out of the question.
Not at all. Sikhs have a long history of battling (being attacked by) muslims and they're fairly bitter about it. The Kirpan that they are supposed to carry is specifically so that they will never be unarmed (again) when the muslim attack them.
muslims. plural. nuts.
Obama is arriving on a three-day visit to India starting Nov. 6. He was originally planning to visit the the Golden Temple -- the Sikh religion's holiest shrine, which is spread over 15 acres. The Indian Sikh community has lamented Mr. Obama's move to bypass the temple. "I deeply regret President Obama's decision to cancel this trip without any valid reason," Joginder Singh, the secretary of the Golden Temple in Amritsar told India Real Time Monday. "The Sikh diaspora yearned to see President Obama at this sanctum sanctorum and give a powerful message of global peace and harmony in the world,"So much for any remaining credibility of the Nobel committee.
So why would the Sikhs want a visit from O?
Beats me...
Maybe Obama will piss off the Sikhs enough like when the leader of India did and paid the price on October 31st 1984......
Maybe that is the reason for all of the security.
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