Parading Killers is Not a Go in Canada
More Kudos to Surrey mayor Dianne Watts.
She has refused to appear on a float or stage in this weekend's Vaisakhi parade unless the organizers remove their homages to killers.
Killers, whome they call martyrs.
That includes the assassins of Indira Ghandi and the masterminds of the Air India bombings that murdered 331 people.
One of the parade organizers had the gall to assert that showing a picture of the Air India psycho is the same as putting up a picture of Jesus Christ in a church.
Maybe I don't know my New Testament very well. Jesus killed people? Bombed airplanes out of the sky?
Oh, yah, Matthew, Mark, Luke and Talwinder...
5 comments:
Good on the Mayor David! I have always admired her from afar, [I live on a Gulf Island] nowhere near Surrey, and here is just one more example why we could do with many more Municipal Leaders like her. Cheers,
It would be like having the IRA lead the Saint Patrick's Day parade.
Actually the names for the Air India disaster are Malik and Bagri. Both found not guilty ? Malik runs the Khalsa school, the credit union and a huge clothing factory, among other things. He still owes the provincial gov't
6 million for his legal aid. See Kim Bolan's book: Loss of Faith: How The Air India Bombers Got Away With Murder. Learn all abhoout the terrorists who live in Surrey!
"See Kim Bolan's book: Loss of Faith: How The Air India Bombers Got Away With Murder. Learn all about the terrorists who live in Surrey!"
Thanks for the tip, anon, I've just requested it from BPL. This is a subject I've had trouble finding good info on. :-)
Politics and religion are inseparable in Sikh teachings.
I recommend you read the Gallant Defender written by AR Darshi, a Hindu who was a magistrate and Joint Secretary to the Punjab.
Darshi lays the blame for the events of 1984 squarely at the feet of the Indian Government. The same government that even now refuses to acknowledge or give remedy for its human rights abuses.
I see nothing wrong with pictures at a parade or students wearing t-shirts to promote awareness of the human rights abuses and injustices Sikhs suffer while living in India. However, the pictures should have some sort of explanation accompanying them so people know what's going on.
This issue will not go away until the Indian government tries to honestly deal with it instead of sweep it under the carpet. Seeing as how the corrupt government simply will not be honest where atrocities against Sikhs are concerned, the issue will clearly not go away.
-Sundeep Gill
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