Posted on 03/19/2010 2:48:38 AM PDT by ketelone
Gurpreet Singh was working his final shift as a 7-Eleven clerk, before moving on next week to full-time job at a hospital, when he was gunned down during a robbery.
Police say they can't explain why Singh, 35, was shot in the abdomen early Wednesday even after complying with the gunman's instructions to hand over his register's cash in a bag.
"He didn't put up a struggle at all," said homicide Detective Jeff Cowdrey. "He did what he was supposed to do and got shot for it."
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Well, that’s sort-of like calling the NAZIs, Catholics.
He did what Corporate wanted him to do.
He is now dead.
Corporate has Blood on their hands.
Sikhs are very peace-loving but they’re not passive and they’re not wussies. They aren’t Hindu pacifists at all. In fact, Hindi usually isn’t their first language.
Most people in this country know nothing about Sikhs. In fact, some were viciously pursued after 9/11 because some people in this country are so ignorant that they don’t know the difference between a Sikh’s turban and an Arab or Muslim’s shoulder length do-rag.
For an eastern religion, Sikhs are pretty cool. They’re also smart business people, very industrious, and hard-working. They value education, marriage, traditional families, respectful, obedient children, healthy living, cleanliness and taking pride in their property.
As neighbors and people to do business with, I’ll take Sikhs along with my own ethnicity over any others any day.
That was my first gun too. Works every time.
The Nazis were all “Christian”, whatever that means....
His family should sue the pants of 7-11 for denying him the ability to defend himself!
>>”Wherever 7/11 Headquarters are, they should be forced to remove any and all security and see how it feels.”
AND to extend the analogy, be forced to always walk around with hundred dollar bills taped to their foreheads, so the criminals would know where to go for some quick cash.
DG
JCB's red highlight:
In faith of Me
All dangers thou shalt vanquish, by My grace,
But, trusting to thyself and heeding not,
Thou can’st but perish! If this day thou say’st
Relying on thyself, “I will not fight!”
Vain will the purpose prove! thy qualities
Would spur thee to the war.
hoosierham: Funny how God usually sends aid to the non-violent in the form of a man willing to use force to stop the aggressor. If good men do nothing then evil will triumph.(At least absent DIRECT divine intervention.)
whatisthetruth: Very nice verse my FRiend, but if you’re dead you can’t read it.
With all due respect, you've got the teaching of the Bhagavad Gita absolutely backwards, as well as your derivative conclusion about the "Indian religion."
In the story of the Bhagavad Gita, the Lord (Krishna) is actually telling the warrior Arjuna to FIGHT.
The war is a battle between two families that have been torn apart, and the brave Arjuna sees family members and lifelong friends across the battlefield before the fighting starts, and his heart fails him. He asks Krishna how he could possibly fight his loved ones?
Krishna replies that Arjuna is a warrior, and that a true warrior's fight is not just a job, but a command given to him by God to uphold truth and righteousness in the world. Along the same lines of much of the appreciation of the military on Free Republic, Krishna points out that if there were no true warriors, there would be no peace and no civilization.
In the part you quoted above, James C. Bennett, Krishna is telling Arjuna that if he obeys God's command to fight for the sake of what is right, God will protect him through Grace in this world and the next. But if he refuses to fight, he can't avoid a shameful death. Furthermore, his refusal to fight will be in vain because his very nature is a warrior, so he will end up fighting anyway despite himself, but without trust in God - so he will be destroyed for nothing.
The story is profound, as it teaches courage and faith in God in the face of despair. And it is especially relevent today, as we see so many Americans turning away from the freedoms this country makes possible, and supporting lies and murderous cults instead, while we despair about our own countrymen and women. The Bhagavad Gita teaches that we should stand up to them - that if they are to go down, in whatever way, because they support evil, then that will happen anyway - God is not mocked. But if we don't do our duty by defying their lies, we sin for not refuting them.
There are many religious traditions in India, but the Bhagavad Gita is important to most of them. And because of it, even the most pacifistic yogis acknowledge the importance of the Indian military. Those yogis are not like our liberals - at all. Indians in India do not practice California New Age Progressive crap, as many young people from here travelling there have discovered to their dismay.
Excellent clarification, thanks!
Talisker, please look at comment #9, and realise the context of my reply. The first line of my reply to that comment, was italicised to indicate the source of those words, which was comment #9, and not posted by me. You have mistaken another’s words for mine.
I was responding to those same words, with the part highlighted in red.
And these same people would never work in their own stores without armed guards standing beside them.
Condolences to Gurpreet Singh’s family and friends.
Plus, the Tamil Tigers were from Sri Lanka
Guess we know who wears the pants in that family!
Yea, and the pilots on 9/11 complied too. The police can't explain it but I can...SOME PEOPLE ARE AS EVIL AS SATAN AND SHOULD NEVER BE TRUSTED!!!!!
Their ancestry and support come from South India, aka Tamil Nadu. Sri Lanka or was part of India in historic days.
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