the trailer was good to see and these issues our fellow Sikhs face are important to be aware of.

but there was just one thing that struck me most about the blog. It says Sikhs are to wear dastaars, which is fine, but then it says that the dastaar is an article of faith that “all Sikh men are required to wear at all times in public”.

Now as a manmukh i dont know about the essence of sikhi as many of you may know and understand, but we should make it clear to all our brothers and sisters of various religious backgrounds, that women are also supposed to wear dastaars, that it isn’t something men wear and be the ones unfortuneately who face discrimination. In my opinion, I think the reason why Sikhs who wear dastaars, who mostly are men, are discriminated against because the society in which they seldom sees a Sikh with his identity. If every Kaur were to also tie a dastaar as a crown on her head, there would be many more noticable Sikhs, ie who have a strong physical identity.

I hope that I’m not coming on as a feminist, the same would probably happen if our veerjis didn’t wear dastaars and most bhenjis did. I do hope though that I come on as a concerned Sikh. It is within our the followers of the faith, call us a society, a community, what have you, that the seed to the problem arises. We say Sikhism is such a valuable faith because of the equality between men and women, besides other factors of course, but when are we going to treat eachother as equals? Why is there a difference in men and women about simple fundamentals such as tying a dastaar?

Bhul chuk maaf Vaheguru jio, just a concerned Singhni expressing a few thoughts.

Vahegurujikakhalsa Vaheguruijkeefateh!

Then another movie could be made with theological info about how the founders and the Guru of Sikhism
were from ALL religions….hindu, muslim, sufi…

I remember a news article on Sikhnet when I first starting visiting this site that reported that the Bublin Ireland police force officially ruled that Sikh police could wear turbans. So why not here? It’s going to be a matter of mass education– which takes place in the schools.

So, as a long time member of the Southern Poverty Leadership Conference, which fights racism and discrimination, my next move will be to recommend building a component about Sikhs and the Sikh faith into its Teaching Tolerance curriculum. That is how SPLC reaches many schoolchildren.

This documentary and other projects like this will surely help the sikh community in NY and the other states, to be not referred to as Arab Terrorists, and hopefully help minimise any racial attacks.