the_niner_nation wrote:

How ironic it is that the Sikhs, a peaceful people who do wear ceremonial
daggers and whose way of life is sooooooo incompaitble with North america
are the ones to be singled out, whilst it's perfectly acceptable for other
Americans to walk around wearing equally unacceptable headgear and carrying
handguns with the intention to use and kill as opposed to symbolise a
faith....


In Canada at least, walking in public places with a weapon is prohibited
by law. Sihks went to supreme court to get an exception to this.

In Canada, the long standard and well known standard uniform for the
mounted police (one of our national emblems) had to be changed because
one sihk immigrant insisted he be allowed to apply for such job, and
went to the supreme court to have the uniform ruled unconstitutional
because it discriminated against a religion that mandates only a certain
type of hat can be worn and never removed.

When an immigrant forces your country to change its long standing
traditions and emblems, you don't have much respect for that type of
religion that shows it it unwilling to adapt to a place the person is
moving to and forcing a whole country to adapt to their own little needs.

Consider some Hindu coming to the USA and then going to the supreme
court stating that slaughter of all cows/beef should be made illegal
because it is against his religion which considers cows to be sacred.

One needs to put a limit on the silliness of religions interfering with
normal social life. Wearing some turban has nothing to do with what sort
of god you believe in or whether you are peaceful or revengeful or whatever.

Wearing a burka has nothing to do with religion. It is merely a female
accepting to be a slave to her husband (or parents before she is maried)
and never showing her skin in public. All the Koran says is that people
should not dress in a sexually provocative manner in public.

The fact that hundreds of millions of muslim women do not wear burkas or
even veils is a good indication that those are not part of the religion.
(think indonesia, pacific islands etc where their implementation of
the Koran is more "by the book" than the extra social customs added to
life in certain parts of the middle east.


And in terms of your americans wearing unacceptable headgear and
carrying handguns, when it comes to a security checkpoint at the
airport, they will not cry foul and go to the supreme court if they are
asked to remove the hat and put it in the tray to be x-rayed or tells
them that flying with a handgun is illegal and that it cannot be taken
beyond the checkpoint. Sihks will go to the supreme court to get
permission to do that.

I am not saying that sihks are dangerous. (although they are the ones
who blew up Air India 747 in 1985 and there are terrorist groups pushing
for Sihk agenda). However, their refusal to abide to simple rules here
are incompatible without established society.

If you are asked to remove headgear at a security checkpoint, you should
not refuse to do so. Same with veil/burkas/whatever.