Tolerance is one of those things that while living in Canada is not only expected, but any act contrary is met with great scorn and public outrage in the media. Yet, it would seem that not all Canadians have come to accept ‘tolerance’ as being a vital corner stone of Canadian Society.

An article by Danielle Crittenden, of the National Post for instance, is shitting on the entire system because she wasn’t harassed as much as she was hoping to have been by people in public or even the security detail that handled her at the airport, while wearing a burqa.

I would guess that Danielle would receive the same level of harassment by society had she chosen to conduct the same experiment having chosen to dress like a nun, but I guess that wouldn’t count seeing as how it’s the Muslims we’re after.

Anyways check the link for the article, and also check what the French are now demanding in Quebec, .h the crazy world we live in.

• Keep hijabs off judges, teachers, says union boss
• Too tolerant by half

Everyone’s heard the saying, “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”, but no one ever said anything about the fury of a punjabi chic who got cheated on.

This recent story about the punjabi bibi in the UK probably tops even some of more outlandish Jerry Springer themes and guests, and even though the incident is quite tragic and shouldn’t be made light of, after reading the story one can’t help but look at the situation and think WTF!?!?

Anyways check it out, some shit out there is just messed: Sikh student jailed for stabbing of pregnant Muslim love rival.

Prof. Uday Singh, has over the years earned himself a reputation of being straight with it. Whether he agrees or disagree’s with you he very seldom leaves it to interpretation as to what he means and leaves no doubts about where he stands. Whether he’s writing in favour of certain kakaars over others or against gurdwara committee’s he doesn’t seem to care for who he offends or airs out, but says what he feels needs to be said; whatever it is that he believes to be the truth.  By all means this is a noble and even respectable trait in any person, even if what they say may be hard to swallow. since not everyone will always agree with what he’s saying, but the fact that he’s often the only one saying it the way it is needs to be said still needs to be respected.

It’s for that reason that Kim Bolan’s latest article where she interviews Prof. Uday Singh leaves me both smirking at the fact that he said things the way many conceptualize and feel, yet have me shaking my head thinking, “damn he so shouldn’t have said that”, knowing full well how easily it can be misinterpreted by the general public.

Then again, it is refreshing since I was getting tired of all the politically correct rhetoric that has started to appear all over the place. [You know, those interviews and quotes from Sikhs who continuously try to convince the media and the public that the Kirpan is nothing more then a symbol, that the Sikhs are far from being a martial race and try to compromise the faith at every turn.]

Chullo, Gurparsad, it’s all good, enjoy the article…

No room in his heart for Hindus

Uday Singh, retired professor, is uncompromising in backing the battle for an independent Sikh homeland. He celebrates as ‘our Nelson Mandela’ a man who pleaded guilty in the 1985 Air India bombing that killed more than 300 people

KIM BOLAN

CanWest News Service

Saturday, August 04, 2007

He may be the oldest Khalistan supporter in Canada and 84-year-old Uday Singh does not mince words when he talks about the struggle for a separate Sikh nation.

Though Singh says he is financially “stretched,” the retired Laurentian University math professor has for years sent a monthly cheque to the family of Inderjit Singh Reyat because he believes the convicted B.C. bomb-maker is “our Nelson Mandela.”

He also gave financial support to Air India bombing suspect Ajaib Singh Bagri during his trial.

Despite Reyat’s guilty plea in the 1985 Air India bombing, Singh believes Reyat was desperate to get out of jail and had nothing to do with Canada’s worst act of terrorism, which was commemorated in Vancouver July 20 with the unveiling of a memorial in Stanley Park.

Reyat’s admission, “it appears to me, is something that was born out of his crying need to get out of jail. His admission is not necessarily a statement of fact,” Singh said in a recent interview at his humble country home near Brampton, Ont. “He is our Nelson Mandela.”

Singh helped arrange the marriage of one of Reyat’s daughters in 2003 to the son of the former Ontario leader of the Sikh militant group Babbar Khalsa as a way of helping Reyat’s family.

“I have every sympathy with the whole family, especially with the mother who has suffered most,” Singh said. “To me, they are like a bunch of flowers, very fragrant and very well-behaved and high-quality people to me.”

Well before Singh immigrated to Canada in 1961, he already believed that Sikhs got a rough ride in India, and he is blunt about his feelings for the Hindu majority there.

“They are our traditional enemies,” he said, adding that Sikhs and Hindus cannot live on the same planet together. “Come on, no, not even as neighbours. Not even in separate countries.”

For 37 years, Singh has run a free school in Toronto, teaching Sikh children history, language and culture. His most famous student was Navdeep Bains, now a Liberal MP. He taught Bains and his wife until a few years ago.

“I have taught many sons of my old students and now even the grandsons of my old students. But it is a good thing. For me it gives me my long life and it gives me my health.”

It was his first book, The Waning and Waxing of the Khalistan Movement, that he believes cost him his Indian passport and the chance to return home.

“I have reason to believe it is this book (that) poisoned them against me and my passport was taken away,” he said.

In it, he outlines his relationship with all the original Canadian leaders of the movement, including those identified in connection with the Air India bombing.

Singh said he helped Talwinder Singh Parmar - the man police identify as the suspected bombing mastermind - escape from India in 1982 after police there had accused him of murder.

He later lost faith in Parmar’s leadership, though he still believes the former Babbar Khalsa founder is innocent in the downing of Flight 182 and the murder of 331 people.

“He suddenly popped up here … he is now dead and he died for the nation … But I was struck with his being unlettered, uneducated - that was striking,” Singh said.

Singh said he offered financial help to the families of Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik while they were on trial in the Air India case. Malik’s family declined, but Bagri’s wife took a monthly payment, he said. Both men were acquitted in March 2005 in a verdict praised by Singh.

“No Sikh is guilty of doing that. The Hindu government got it done,” he said, claiming an inquiry in Ottawa will eventually reach that conclusion despite the fact that it has so far focused on a conspiracy by Sikh terrorists from B.C.

Singh believes that Sikhs are entitled to use arms when there is no other way to combat a problem, as the late separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale did before the Indian army raided the Golden Temple at Amritsar in June 1984.

“Whatever the arms are at your disposal, my religion allows me to use them if it is the end of all other means,” he said, praising Bhindranwale as the only real leader the Khalistan movement ever had.

Singh said he doesn’t understand the recent controversy over portraits in temples and parades of Sikh assassins described as martyrs because they killed political opponents in India. The portraits have every right to be on display in Canada, he said. “They did it for us. They punished the evil-doer, which is heroic,” he said.

The Sikh separatist movement in Canada will rise up again, Singh said, referring to the title of his book.

“It is not dead at all,” he said. “It is waning now, only to wax. It is like you are in a swing - you go down and up again.”

Maybe it’s just me, but I wonder why they get to be ”ultra-Orthodox” when most others get labeled as being fanatics or extremists, when in most cases, (neglecting suicide bombers and those out for the blood of the innocent), the words simply try to describe those who practice or at least attempt to practice their faith in as much of an un-adultered form as possible.

Yet the difference in connotation is often simply ignored.

The Air India incident has long been dubbed by many as an international “whose done it”. The finger pointing never stops at any level, from who was responsible for the bombings, to who was responsible for mucking up the investigation. Personally, I’ve always ascribed to the Soft Target view as published by Globe and Mail journalists in contrast to the CBC’s take on things, but had little in way of public record to support that angle. However a recent confession of sorts by the very officer directly involved in bringing down Parmar seems to have turned the tide of things.

The officer, DSP Harmail Singh Chandi, recently came forward and basically acknowledged the following as being fact:

1. Parmar was killed while in police custody after having been arrested held and interrogated for five days.

   All the official reports which have Parmar being killed in a old western style shoot ‘em up.
   

2. Evidence was gathered, audio tapes, written confessions, but were destroyed at the bequest of higher ups in the Government in an effort to protect those involved, particularly to remove any trace of Government involvement.

   Acknowledges the fact that the Indian Government had direct involvement in the Air India Bombings
   

3. In Parmar’s confessions, he singled out Lakhwinder Singh Brar (head of the ISYF) as being the brains behind the operation.

   This would pit Brar, who some had suspected and accused of being GOI, as having a direct role and thereby being responsible for the AI Bombings. Also due to the alleged government protection of Lakhwinder Singh, by association dub him to be a Governments official, acting on their behalf. Or as many others have come to say it, claiming him to be a ‘Go-erment Da Bunda’.

The fact that the following has been noticed and noted in the public record of the AI Inquiry is huge in part because it officially points the finger at the GOI for having been responsible in part for orchestrating these heinous acts. Secondly it points fingers at both Parmar and Brar for having masterminded and carrying out the bombings. Finally, and I guess for some the biggest shocker of all, calls out Lakhwinder Singh and the Federation for having been instruments of the Government.

Although it’s still too soon to know what the fall out from all this will be, I’m sure its going to turn a lot of heads and raise a whole load of new questions, from all sides. Particularly who is this DSP, why did he come out now, is his confession not an admission of guilt to having committed several crimes and if so does he not stand to be prosecuted for those crimes, who is the DSP’s daddy and what does he do, and a whole load else.

But more then anything else it introduces for the first time in a long while, an interesting new twist in what has already become one complex web of truths, mis-truths and lies.

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For those interested in whats being said about the latest in the papers check out:

• http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.2…
• http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNew…
• http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/News/National/2007/07/…
• http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.h..
• More…

Or you could read below from the actual source - Tehelka.com

OPERATION SILENCE

The police encounter of Kanishka bombing’s alleged mastermind, Talwinder Parmar, may have been staged to save the real players. Vikram Jit Singh reports

Fifteen years after Babbar Khalsa International leader Talwinder Singh Parmar, one of the two alleged masterminds of the mid-air bombing of Air India’s Kanishka airplane, was shown as having being killed in an encounter in Punjab, retired Punjab Police DSP Harmail Singh Chandi, who nabbed Parmar from Jammu in September 1992 and interrogated him for five days before he was killed along with five others, has come forward with the claim that Parmar was killed in police custody on the orders of senior police officers, who also asked his confession record to be destroyed. In his confession, Parmar had named Lakhbir Singh Brar “Rode”, nephew of the late Bhindranwale and head of the banned International Sikh Youth Federation, as the mastermind of the bombing. Rode, who is now said to be holed up in Lahore, has never figured in the investigations of either the CBI or the Canadian authorities.

Chandi has brought forward the entire record of Parmar’s confession, including audio tapes and statements, before the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the John Major Commission of Inquiry that is reinvestigating the June 23, 1985 blast that claimed 331 lives off the Irish coast. Chandi had been ordered by senior officers to destroy the records but he retained them secretly. The record was brought before the Major Commission due to seven-year-long investigations by the Punjab Human Rights Organisation (PHRO), a Chandigarh-based ngo that conducted interviews of Parmar’s associates in India and Canada and pieced together a comprehensive report. The PHRO’s Principal Investigator Sarbjit Singh and lawyer Rajvinder Singh Bains flew to Canada along with Harmail in June and produced their findings before the Commission’s counsels.

A Canadian citizen, Parmar was shown as having been killed in an exchange of fire between police and six militants in the wee hours of October 15, 1992, near village Kang Arian in Phillar sub-division. However, evidence brought forward by Harmail (who was then DSP, Phillaur) shows that Parmar was interrogated between October 9 and 14 by senior police officers, where he revealed that the blasts were instigated by Lakhbir Singh Brar Rode.

Parmar’s confession reads: “Around May 1985, a functionary of the International Sikh Youth Federation came to me and introduced himself as Lakhbir Singh and asked me for help in conducting some violent activities to express the resentment of the Sikhs. I told him to come after a few days so that I could arrange for dynamite and battery etc. He told me that he would first like to see a trial of the blast…After about four days, Lakhbir Singh and another youth, Inderjit Singh Reyat, both came to me. We went into the jungle (of British Columbia). There we joined a dynamite stick with a battery and triggered off a blast. Lakhbir and Inderjit, even at that time, had in their minds a plan to blast an aeroplane. I was not too keen on this plan but agreed to arrange for the dynamite sticks. Inderjit wanted to use for this purpose a transistor fitted with a battery…That very day, they took dynamite sticks from me and left.

“Then Lakhbir Singh, Inderjit Singh and their accomplice, Manjit Singh, made a plan to plant bombs in an Air India (AI) plane leaving from Toronto via London for Delhi and another flight that was to leave Tokyo for Bangkok. Lakhbir Singh got the seat booking done from Vancouver to Tokyo and then onwards to Bangkok, while Manjit Singh got it done from Vancouver to Toronto and then from Toronto to Delhi. Inderjit prepared the bags for the flights, which were loaded with dynamite bombs fitted with a battery and transistor. They decided that the suitcases will be booked but they themselves will not travel by the same flights although they will take the boarding passes. After preparing these bombs, the plan was ready for execution by June 21 or 22, 1985. However, the bomb to be kept in the flight from Tokyo to Delhi via Bangkok exploded at the Narita airport on the conveyor belt. The second suitcase that was loaded on the Toronto-Delhi ai flight exploded in the air.”

Sarabjit said the PHRO’s probe has shown that Parmar was killed to hide the name of Lakhbir, who was an Indian agent. “After the Khalistan movement gained in sympathy in the West, especially in Canada, after the 1984 Blue Star operation and the killing of Sikhs in Delhi, a plot was hatched to discredit the Sikh movement. Parmar was roped in by Lakhbir at the behest of his masters. The Punjab Police got orders to finish off Parmar as he knew too much about the main perpetrators. On the day of the Kanishka blast, an explosion took place at Japan’s Narita airport, where two Japanese baggage handlers were killed. The plot was to trigger blasts when the two aircraft had de-embarked their passengers but the 1 hour 40 minute delay in Kanishka’s takeoff led to the bomb exploding mid-air,” Sarbjit said.

What gives credence to Sarabjit’s charge is the Source Report (in Tehelka’s posession) prepared by the Jalandhar Police soon after Parmar was killed. Based on information provided by Parmar — though not attributing it to his interrogation — the report makes no reference to Lakhbir. Interestingly, Lakhbir, accused in many acts of terrorist violence, is wanted by the Indian Government in only a minor case registered in Moga, Punjab. The Red Corner Interpol notice, A-23/1-1997, put out by the CBI against Lakhbir states: “OFFENCES: House breaking, theft, damage by fire.”

The PHRO told Canadian authorties that conclusive evidence existed of Parmar being killed in police custody and not in the “encounter” shown in FIR No 105 registered at Phillaur police station on October 15, 1992. The PHRO report, AI Flight 182 Case, states “On October 14, 1992, a high-level decision was conveyed to the police that Parmar had to be killed…The contradiction in the FIR and post-mortem report (PMR) is too obvious. As per the FIR, Parmar was killed by AK-47 fire by SSP Satish K Sharma from a rooftop. The PMR shows the line of fire of the three bullets is different. It cannot be if one person is firing from a fixed position. The PMR is very sketchy and no chemical analysis was done. Moreover, the time of death is between 12am and 2am according to the PMR, whereas the FIR records the time of death at 5.30am.”

Then Jalandhar SSP and now IGP, Satish K Sharma, denied the charge. “It was a clean encounter. The RCMP is bringing this up because they botched their investigations and failed to get convictions,” he said.

Firstly I apologize to those who’ve been looking for a post, for not having had one sooner, but truthfully there’s nothing new for me to add that isn’t already known or hasn’t already been published by more credible sources, and like everyone else look to these sources for any new bit of information they can pass our way.

The controversy for those not aware in a nut shell is the leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, who’s name really deserves no promotion, thought he was a bad ass, went out and tried to create his own institution of Amrit, but instead of blessing the world with nectar of the iron blade, he instead got prissy and gave us a big bowl of pink milk [not that there’s anything wrong with rufza, but saying you got baptized by it, is just weak]. Anyway’s the Baba went on to initiate what he called sat-sitaray, and after administering the pink milk to his followers knelt in front of them and asked they initiate him with the sticky pink stuff also.

Once that image and news hit the desi papers, all hell started [as it should] broke loose and Sangat’an gathered in Bhatinda to protest, and protest they did burning effigies and all. If this Baba was running it small time like Mann Chand or whoever else this would have been it the end of it, but seeing as how this Dera has thousands of followers those mans decided to crash the Protest attacking those protesting and also causing a scene. Now lets face it, after 1978 and 1984 the panth has had this flame in the pit of its gut just looking for a spark to come out, a means to lash out and the Baba’s chelay crashing the protest and showing that they were ready to go toe to toe is what ignited that flame.

So now you had riots in Bhatinda, The Panth vs the Dera and its chelay. Well that’s what it looks like on the outside if off course there wasn’t the political undertone which also exists at bottom of this which features the legendary bout between Congress and the Akali’s.

See Badal knew that the Dera had clout amongst the masses and it’s why he made it a pit stop in his campaign for votes, but unlike the small time Babay that he has under his wing the Dera wanted what Badal couldn’t deliver and there go threw its support behind the Congress party. Which in turn gives this situation a political overtone that could clearly well overshadow the phantic matter at hand, albeit 1978 and 84 were riddled with political overtones which are used to discredit the movement all the time.

Since Monday (when the first protests happened), protests have sparked up all over the once thriving state of Punjab, and it would seem as though that Sikhs have felt the bigger of the blows in terms of negative media coverage and causalities, all the same the fight continues.

 What has me confused is if Badal and the Akali’s, are the ones who started this [supposedly], then why is Badal posturing for the Jatehdars he has under his thumb to hold off from bringing about a sandesh or Hukamnamaa (Badal reportedly asked them to hold for a week), after all wouldn’t it be in his best interest? None the less, Singh Sahib Vedanti today issused a hukamanama stating a full out boycott against the Dera all the same.

Most Singh’s I know and have spoken to, are riling at the news and many are on the edge of their seats with a cross between eager and nervous anxiousness, hoping that this is just what the Panth needed and what will once and for all bring us right back to where we left off in the mid 80’s, but I guess that will be left up to how our leaders and the government react to the incident. Although how many have actually gone out and bought tickets to India to join in the struggle is yet to be seen, but whether this in fact sparks a re-emergence of the struggle is also yet to be seen.

As far as what I expect to come out of all this, my guess is as good as the next man’s. Whether this finally brings about a time when all those of us who once talked about giving Shaheedi a chance to actually live up to our words or on the flip side coward behind them is to soon to be known. After all this whole thing could just shrivel up into being just an isolated incident that could have put India back into a civil war, but didn’t. But seeing as how this has led to a few Kurbani and injuries already, I doubt that this will be just another foot note in our history.

So lets see what happens and hope that the Himmat is still there.

You would think that after everyone had the R.I.P Kaka name tags in all there cyber profiles, and after those highly hyped stop the violence meetings at the Gurdwara’s that it be at least a year before folks started rushing out trying to kill one another again, but seems like the tempers and ego’s just couldn’t wait.,

I guess what’s most annoying about all this is that it’s easy to see in hindsight how quickly this could have been anyone from my own generation or own circle of friends from highschool, considering the ego’s back then were just as big as the kids these days, but seems like these kids all got an extra chip on there shoulder for some reason. As if they really have something to prove to the elders and past generations that they’re just as rugged if not more then them. Maybe they’re tired of hearing about the glory day’s of the senior crews, the PM’s, CB4’s, Saraba’s, BBS’s, the Rexdale-Malton beefs of past, or whoever else you may have that came before them and done something so regrettably stupid but made it out alive, that the story later became suburban street folk-lore, setting a standard they feel they need to live up to.

In the end who knows what’s being put in the food of these kids to make them feel so ghetto fabulous, or what hannibal-istic ingredient is being added to their cheerios and fruit loops, infecting them with some next form of mad cow diesease.

And as parents go running looking for the answer, screaming to the giani’s and other youth leaders, blaming them for not being able to rescue there lost child, asking why couldn’t they have gone out of there way to highlight the symptoms and save their blood, one can only wonder what lessons the others may have learned, after all the lesson itself always remains embodied within the action.

Brampton brawl ends with teen slain

19-year-old stabbed in ‘mass chaos’ as youths fight outside party in subdivision. Neighbour puts her house up for sale

May 14, 2007 JIM WILKES STAFF REPORTER

A teen was stabbed to death as a beer-fuelled party spilled into a Brampton street and he challenged battling partygoers.

A handful of teens tried to administer first aid to Amrinder Singh Atwal, 19, as he lay bleeding on Culture Cres. Saturday night.

About two dozen others fled before police arrived.

Residents described the area, near Chinguacousy Rd. and Williams Parkway, as a quiet neighbourhood of young families where the loudest noise is usually youngsters playing basketball in the street.

But a quiet barbecue and party turned violent about 10:15 p.m. Saturday as dozens of teens emerged from a house and began beating each other with beer bottles.

Neighbour Rob Voth said he watched as two teens pinned another against a fence and threw punches as a third kicked him.

The teen was also stabbed, but is expected to recover.

Voth, 38, said he watched another teen, later identified as Atwal, stand in the street exhorting others to fight.

“You could see his hand was up with some kind of weapon in his hand, whatever it was, ready for battle, preparing himself, like, `bring it on,’” he said. “It all happened pretty fast.” Police said the brawl was triggered by a long-simmering dispute among some of the partygoers.

“It was something about, `You didn’t like me in Grade 10,’” said Voth.

“It’s not a good scene,” he said, gazing across a street criss-crossed with yellow police tape. “I’ve only been here two years and now I’m ready to go a little further north into the country, do some home-schooling with my kids and make sure they’re safe.”

His wife Samantha also said they may move from the neighbourhood constructed just six years ago.

“It was mass chaos,” she said. “There were people screaming. It was very scary. You don’t expect something like that to happen on your front lawn.”

She fought back tears as she spoke of the teen’s death.

“You wake up and it’s Mother’s Day and you realize that a mother is without her son,” she said.

Lisa Snelgrove, a 29-year-old mother of children age 12, 10 and 8, didn’t take much time to decide their future.

“I called my real estate agent to put my house up for sale as soon this tape comes down,” she said. She said she moved to Brampton from Rexdale “to give my kids a better life.”

But she doesn’t know where they’ll go next to escape violence. “It’s everywhere,” she said. “My daughter was in tears, crying her eyes out. They asked me if anybody died. I’m not going to lie to them,” she said. “You don’t want to have to explain that to any child.”

Snelgrove watched as teens tried to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation on Atwal. “But by that time it looked like it was too late,” she said.

Peel police said yesterday they hadn’t found the knife used to kill Atwal.