Sikh group orders students to grow long hair, beards

[dabong1]

Sikh group orders students to grow long hair, beards

NEW DELHI: Sikh students in India’s capital are not allowed to cut their hair or trim their beards if they want to study at schools and colleges run by their community, a governing body official said on Wednesday.

The Sikh faith stipulates that men and women must wear their hair long and men must not shave or trim facial hair. Observant Sikh males in India mostly wear their long hair tied in a turban. However, several younger followers have started cutting and trimming their hair and beards.

“Sikh students who want to enroll in educational institutes managed by the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee must follow the tenets of the faith,” said Kulwinder Singh, the organisation’s law officer. The organisation runs more than 30 schools and colleges in New Delhi and its suburbs. This is the first ruling of its kind in India, Singh said.

Guru Nanak, who broke away from Hinduism, India’s dominant religion, founded Sikhism in the 15th century. He preached the equality of races and genders, and the rejection of image-worship and the caste system. Sikhs consist of less than 2 percent of India’s nearly 1.1 billion people, the vast majority of who are Hindus.

 

[Adux]

Can we have the link please,
Funny the article very conviently forgets that Sikhism was staunchly against Islam.

But Heck this is bad Hindu week....go on

 

[Cheetah786]

Can we have the link please,
Funny the article very conviently forgets that Sikhism was staunchly against Islam.

But Heck this is bad Hindu week....go on

whats the Matter you can dish it but cant take it.

 

[Interceptor]

Can we have the link please,
Funny the article very conviently forgets that Sikhism was staunchly against Islam.

But Heck this is bad Hindu week....go on

I though the Sikhs were firmly against the Hindus who attacked the goldan temple and burned the Sikh book.

 

[Adux]

Interceptor,

The article was talking in a historical sense, Hisotorical Sikhs are against the Muslims. Read up.
If you had a terrorists and arms in Mecca, you can expect any Muslim army to march in; we did exactly that. And the guys who conducted Operation Blue Star was Sikhs themselves. Read there too.

 

[Adux]

whats the Matter you can dish it but cant take it.

You think I have done an ant-Muslim here, lol..
Do you even know how much crap is there about Islam in the Internet.
I dont publish it here, cuz I am not here to say My religion is perfect and you are slobs etc etc. I dont have an agenda. You cant dish it when you see Muslims terrorising other people....Your refuge is the Victim card, so stick with it.

 

[dabong1]

I put this post up to show that it is not only the taliban that loves forcing people to keep beards.

 

[Adux]

Well, Its just an organization not a COUNTRY!!! there is a difference.

 

[Cheetah786]

You think I have done an ant-Muslim here, lol..
Do you even know how much crap is there about Islam in the Internet.
I dont publish it here, cuz I am not here to say My religion is perfect and you are slobs etc etc. I dont have an agenda. You cant dish it when you see Muslims terrorising other people....Your refuge is the Victim card, so stick with it.

Ha ha ha iam the last one to give refuge cards to Muslims specially.if that was the case i wouldn't have been ban at Taliban run forums.

 

[niaz]

My comment is that there are extremists in every religion.

In Islam there is no specific order regarding beard and there are known cases where some Sehabas had a small beard ( Hazrat Ali) and no beard ( Khalid bin Waleed). Muslims wear beards of prescribed lenght ( size of a man's fist) only because it is good to do whatever our holy Prophet ( PBUH) did. But it is not mandatory. I once offered Eid Prayers ( sadly, the only prayer I never miss) behind a Pesh Imam in Kuwait who was clean shaven. Enforcing the beard by law is Taliban interpretation of Islam and not prevailent in the Arabain penisular or in Egypt which has the oldest Islamic University in the world ( Al Azhar).

To be fair, there are clear instructions by Guru Gobind Sing which orders that all Sikhs don't cut their hair, wear kirpan and a kara.

 

[Adux]

Thank you Niaz sir,

I compeltly forgot that in sikhism you cant cut your hair

 

[Skull-Buster]

Sikhs are not as anti-Pakistan as other indians on an average.

 

[Adux]

, every Sikh I know hate Pakistan with a vengence, especially for the fact that a lot of their religious place are on the other side of border.

 

[Skull-Buster]

surprisingly, every sikh that i met (i met alot as i was 3 years in north india) was extremely generous to me due to the fact that alot of their religious places are in Pakistan, and sikhs can easily get a visa to visit their holy places as compared to other indians.

 

[Adux]

3 years in north India, I am sure you made a consensus, than people who actually live over here!!! Easily getting a visa...they want that place to be their....They dont want to get a visa to go there, but rather just go!!!... But I am sure you met quite a lot of anti-india forces who confided their haterd for the iNdian union to you...I am sure.