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If Sikhs are peaceful, why are they required to carry knives?
They did ww1 and 2, american Indians helped new Christians, yet they took their land women n kicked them.out of their own land.
The conquest of the Americas was more epidemiologic than military. The primary killer was smallpox, which reached Mexico in 1620. Successive epidemics of various diseases over the next decades reduced the indigenous population from maybe 20 million to about 1.6 million. (Smallpox preceded Pizarro in Peru and had killed the previous emperor; Atahualpa was vulnerable because his claim to the throne was in dispute.) Other European diseases took similar tolls: measles, influenza and typhus were the next biggest killers, followed by diphtheria, malaria, mumps, pertussis, plague, tuberculosis and yellow fever. In aggregate, epidemic diseases reduced the native populations of the Americas by about 95 percent. The only disease of American origin that Columbus's crew apparently brought back to Europe was syphilis.
Strategist saysIf Sikhs are peaceful, why are they required to carry knives?
Because they have Muslim neighbors.
The Sikh religion evolved out of Hinduism
Sikh faith had actually evolved from a Persian style of Buddhism
There seems to be misconception that we are against Muslims.
Not true. We are against tyranny and pro freedom.
You never know when and who to fight. the requirement is to be ready with best weapons you can have and have the mental fortitude to use them as last resort in self defence
Their religion is quite reasonable in its fundamental beliefs: there is one God, treat everyone with equal respect (even women and people of other religions, unlike Islam), allow people to choose to leave Sikhism (unlike Islam), make an honest living, give to charity, don't be egotistical, pray, meditate.
They have an emphasis on physical fitness, self defense, and military training, so Sikhs were highly desired by the British military in India. And this emphasis is necessary to this day given that they still mostly live near the border of Pakistan, on both sides of the border. All Sikhs are obligated by the religion to carry a knife with them at all times. I guess they have to check them when they board planes.
I was a bit surprised to hear Harmeet Dhillon, a well-known Republican Sikh lawyer, on NPR yesterday (actually my wife heard it and pointed me to https://kqed.org/news/11656135/trump-in-california-and-harmeet-dhillon-on-life-as-a-san-francisco-republican ). Usually NPR censors all speech which calls attention to the Democratic party's extreme divisiveness by race and gender, but she got a couple of good lines past the censors, no doubt exactly because she is a brown woman, ironically:
"We aren't focused on race and gender and gerrymandering the way the Democrats are."
"The left's occupation of Sacramento."
If you can wade through the initial 5 minutes of the usual NPR self-congratulatory hate for Trump by the interviewers, it's a good interview about growing up Sikh in the US.
I wish Sikhs all the best.