I second this post.

Sikhs are their own faith and, believe me..you want them around.

HEre are some wiki quotes..

The Sikhs must believe in the following values:

Equality: All humans are equal before God – No discrimination is allowed on the basis of caste, race, gender, creed, origin, color, education, status, wealth, et cetera. The principles of universal equality and brotherhood are important pillars of Sikhism.
Personal right: Every person has a right to life but this right is restricted and has attached certain duties – simple living is essential. A Sikh is expected to rise early, meditate and pray, consume simple food, perform an honest day's work, carry out duties for his or her family, enjoy life and always be positive, be charitable and support the needy, et cetera.
Actions count: Salvation is obtained by one’s actions – good deeds, remembrance of God – Naam Simran, Kirtan.
Living a family life: Encouraged to live as a family unit to provide and nurture children for the perpetual benefit of creation. (as opposed to living as a wild hermit, which was, and remains, a common spiritual practice in India.)
Sharing: It is encouraged to share and give to charity 10 percent of one’s net earnings.
Accept God’s will: Develop your personality so that you recognise happy event and miserable events as one – the will of God causes them.
The four fruits of life: Truth, contentment, contemplation and Naam, (in the name of God).

Their prohibitions:

Non-logical behavior: Superstitions, or rituals which have no meaning, such as pilgrimages, fasting and bathing in rivers, gambling, worship of graves, idols or pictures, and compulsory wearing of the veil for women, are prohibited.
Material obsession: ("Maya") Accumulation of materials has no meaning in Sikhism. Wealth such as gold, portfolio, stocks, commodities, properties, et cetera, will all be left here on Earth when you depart. Do not get attached to them.
Sacrifice of creatures: Sati – Widows throwing themselves in the funeral pyre of their husbands, the act of slaughtering lambs and calves to celebrate holy occasions
Non-family oriented living: A sikh is encouraged not to live as a recluse, beggar, monk, nun, celibate, or in any similar vein.
Worthless talk: Bragging, gossip and lying are not permitted.
Intoxication: The consumption of alcohol, drugs, tobacco, or other intoxicants is prohibited.
No priestly class: Sikhs do not have to depend on a priest for any of the functions that need to be performed.
Eating meat killed in a ritualistic manner (Kutha meat): Sikhs are strictly prohibited from eating meat killed in a ritualistic manner (such as halal or kosher, known as Kutha meat[1] ), or any meat where langar is served.[2] In some small Sikh Sects, i.e. Akhand Kirtani Jatha eating any meat is believed to be forbidden, but this is not a universally held belief.[3] The meat eaten by Sikhs is known as Jhatka meat.
Having premarital or extramarital sexual relations

Sikhs won't cut their hair or shave their beards until all Muslims leave Sikh lands. If this guy's plan was to kill a bunch of Muslims, he couldn't have picked a worse group to target.

any religion that has a tenant existence demands it's members to defend any person no matter their color, creed, or religion, is OK by me and very desirable to have around, much more so than some others I could think of, one in particular.

Had to correct my wife tonight..

It is probably lucky for him that he was shot and killed by one of the cops.

Poor Slug-O.

Get back in the Dog house.

Sikhs are indeed very different. They have turbans and full beards/long hair (shaving or cutting hair is forbidden). Some of the most upstanding people I have met who literally cam from nothing in India are Sikhs.

We learned about this in Arizona a few days after 9/11 when some uneducated fucktard killed a Sikh family man while he was working at a convenience store. Supposedly as retribution for the twin towers...

The same one God that is worshiped by all monotheistic religions, They call him Waheguru.


WAHEGURU or Vahiguru also spelt and pronounced Vahguru, is the distinctive name of the Supreme Being in the Sikh dispensation, like YHWH in Judaism and Allah in Islam.
They view all, or at least these major, religions as differing in worship, but describing the same inherent God. They regard the differences between the various religions akin to looking at the same thing from different viewpoints since all the major religions agree to this deity's inherent nature (compassionate, all-knowing, all-seeing, etc.). Sikhs believe that there is only one god that created all of us, that created everything.

Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_god_do_Sikh_people_worship#ixzz22jSl8NIf

You're right. It is pretty simple.

The shooting was very tragic and I wish the best for the families affected. Sikh's are a very good people and do not get along with the Muslims.

Great read on the Battle of Saragarhi. 21 Sikh took on 10,000 Muslims and kicked their ass for 8 hours until they were over run.. I really wish we would say fuck you to Pakistan and improve relations with India.

Were they a target because the shooter thought they were muslim?

It might be a little too soon for jokes.

Just read the page.

WOW.

Those guys were tougher than the 300 at the Battle of Thermopylae.

I hope the Mars landing is enough to keep the gun control crowd off tv but I doubt it.

I had been out of the loop all weekend. I am very, very, sorry to hear about this. As an American and a Christian I can say this is an abhorrent act in the extreme. My prayers go out to the victims and their families.

+1

Only the most uneducated retard would confuse the two

The exact words I was about to post. I knew a few back in LA. True to their faith, and good Americans.
They don't deserve this kind of bullshit at all.

I dont care who or what they worship random acts of violence is stupid.

Prayers sent for those effected.

It is sad that they are going to hell.

The ROPers hate Sikhs. The Sikhs haven't done anything to us.

pfft

Yeah but never underestimate the number of uneducated retards out there. I was at a convenience store a couple months after 9/11 where a couple Sikhs from NY who'd gotten off the interstate to gas up were getting hassled by a group of 20-something morons who were trying to give them shit about 9/11. I did not MYOB and rather pointedly pointed out to the clowns that Sikhs =/= Muslims in the slightest. A good time was had by all.

Sikhs are great people, and I've always gotten along well with all of them that I've had contact with. But they are also near the very tippy top on my List of People Whose Shit List I Want to Avoid at All Costs. They come in right around Ghurkas, and Druze on that one.

had some tards around here making a big deal about Sikh tanker truck drivers after 9/11

people are fucking stupid
carry on