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Obama to Skip Sikh Shrine on Visit to India
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| 19 Oct 2010
| Lydia Polgreen
Posted on 10/19/2010 10:28:15 AM PDT by smokingfrog
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To: Red Badger
...but is Sikh religion not Muslim friendly? Reverse the precepts, and you've got it............. But of course I should have seen that! Thanks!
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:41:51 AM PDT
by
ColdOne
(GOP. Gutless Old Politicians :^)).....Tolerance for thee but none for me)
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To: smokingfrog
This calls for a picture of Obama in his acorn cap.
To: ColdOne
They do not play well together.
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:47:23 AM PDT
by
tired1
(Federalize the Fed)
To: F15Eagle
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:47:41 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
To: ColdOne
Sikhs traditionally served the British Empire as cops (in Hong Kong, for instance) or soldiers. Sikhs do not attempt to spread their faith by the sword, but they are religously warriors. They don’t take any shiite from anyone. They are NOT passive like Hindus, or most Christian sects.
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:48:03 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Great Season Tampa Bay Rays! Now, kindly send Carl Crawford to Boston.)
To: smokingfrog
This is telling, indeed. Doesn’t want to enter b/c if he wears Christian head covering, he will be dissing his brother Muslims. If he wears a Muslim head covering, he will be be acknowledging what many of us already know.
As far as I’m concerned, this should really clinch it for those who were otherwise still not convinced that Obama is Muslim.
To: ColdOne
Army was created from Brave Hindus to protect weak Hindus from Islamist aggression. Later they formed into religion. Till early 20th century, Hindus in Punjab used to give eldest son to Sikhism to protect other Hindus. But this practice completely stopped after 1970s, after some Sikhs got involved in terrorism and started killing Hindus.
Sikhism is in decline due to lack of conversion, abortion and female infanticide.
To: smokingfrog
To come to golden temple he needs to cover his head, said Dalmegh Singh, secretary of the committee that runs the temple. That is our tradition. It is their problem to cover the head with a Christian hat or a Muslim cap.Obama should compromise: wear a yarmulke. ;-)
-PJ
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:51:24 AM PDT
by
Political Junkie Too
("Comprehensive" reform bills only end up as incomprehensible messes.)
To: smokingfrog
Better get in all your free world trips in before you’re fired.
To: smokingfrog
I visited there. Obama can borrow a communal bandana from a box outside the temple. No problem.
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:53:56 AM PDT
by
PGR88
To: smokingfrog
Hell - a ball cap from the USS George Bush or some such would have worked...
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posted on
10/19/2010 10:58:02 AM PDT
by
MortMan
(To Obama "Kill them all and let [God] sort them out" is an abortion slogan.)
Comment #33 Removed by Moderator
To: smokingfrog
Hat? No problem.
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:01:54 AM PDT
by
USMCPOP
(Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
To: smokingfrog
A Sikh splinter group occupied the Golden Temple in 1984, and Indira Gandhi ordered an attack to remove them on a Sikh holiday when many innocent pilgrims were visiting, many of them were hurt or killed in the cross-fire.
Two Sikh bodyguards later assassinated Mrs. Gandhi.
I wonder whether India's central government, which I believe is led by a Hindu nationalistic party, have objected to President Obama visiting there, in which case the stated problem of head covering is just a smoke screen.
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:02:56 AM PDT
by
kenavi
(What drove BP to drill 5,000 feet down?)
To: nickcarraway
Where’s that goofy picture of him dressed up like a muslim, with a turban?
To: ColdOne
To the best of my knowledge, there have not been any major conflicts between Sikhs and Christians. Or Sikhs and Jews.
However Sikhs and Muslims are like oil and water.
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:07:18 AM PDT
by
kidd
To: Paved Paradise
Couldn’t he just wear his Chicago White Sox cap?/sarc
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:11:53 AM PDT
by
Padams
To: Padams
Obama’s religion is...Obama!
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:15:30 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
("Oil the gun..eat the cannolis. Take it to the Mattress.")
To: MortMan
from the article... ... Baseball caps are not considered appropriate. Sikh scriptures require that men tie a piece of cloth on their heads, not simply put on a hat that can be easily taken off, because the act of tying has spiritual significance. Most non-Sikh visitors tie on kerchiefs sold by vendors outside the temple.
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posted on
10/19/2010 11:35:12 AM PDT
by
smokingfrog
(Because you don't live near a bakery doesn't mean you have to go without cheesecake.)
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