my take on sikhs

it just seems like sikhs have been fucked over numerous times throughout history, yet refuse to stand up for themselves. yeah there have been momentary generals and the like, but where has there been anything truely established and powerful. and how about the fact that back in 1900 when they wanted to do a translation of the guru granth sahib they couldnt find more than like 20 people who could even read the damn thing. there was a period, and im not sure its still the case today, but there was a period during sikh history where they were some of the most uneducated people out there in india.

and then there's the whole islamic massacres of sikh peoples and leaders. they'd cut people in half, pay people for the heads of sikhs, more or less try their best to convert & or kill those who opposed them. in a way you could call this one of the great tests of the religion, as more or less every fledgeling religion seems to have, where there's religion it seems, there's competition, competing for peoples souls and shit, and that sort of shit is just hard to really kinda ... hard to reconcile and shit.

and of course the whole 84 thing. years have passed and many government officials still havent been brought to justice. in some cases they still hold their incumbant positions. the massacre and invasion of the holiest sikh shrine, and the current sikh leader, plus the numerous killed sikhs in the rioting and such. this was incited by government people and those people do deserve justice brought to their case. if you incite people to kill, a crime has been committed. its not a war, it was a murder of many people. but i can see how hte government might try and weasel out of it saying it was a wartime thing, that under the terms of war, the state gives the government right to kill & maim in the name of the state. its a terrible thing, and war no matter how its looked upon causes much destruction. but given the right political spin, a country can feel justified in murder, whislt the invaded force can feel very compromised.