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P.S. The US House of Reps has a new member who is Hindu. She's from Hawaii. Pat Buchanan mentioned that he likes her. That is slightly weird, Pat.
Why would this be unusual? as Canada comprises a varied cultural demographic that doesnt ostracize people for their cultural origins. Are you implying we should call for Mr Sajjans resignation because he is Sikh? do you suspect Mr Sajjan is in some way up to no good because of his being a Sikh.
What exactly is this Topic trying to imply?
Not too surprising, I guess, especially considering that they represent just a small fraction of 1% the population (less than half a million nationwide).
I see the population in Canada is about half a million, or 2% of the population. Interesting - I didn't know there were so disproportionately more numerous north of the border.
Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina was born as Namrata Randhawa in Indian Sikh Family. It was only in 1996 when she was 24-25 years old that she converted to Christianity.
Bobby Jindal converted to Christianity from Hinduism at the age of 18 or 19.
By contrast, Dalip Singh Saund didnt convert to Christianity. He was a Sikh and first Non-Abrahamic to be selected to Congress and that too in 1955.
He was bestowed with the Meritorious Service Medal in 2012[7] for diluting the Taliban’s influence in Kandahar Province.[5] He has also been awarded the Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal.[5] He also received the Order of Military Merit award. He was recognized as "the best single Canadian intelligence asset" in the Kandahar theatre by Brigadier-General David Fraser.[5][8] He also served as an Aide-de-Camp to the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia.[9] His intelligence gathering skills were sought after. The Commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s southern provinces requested that Sajjan join the U.S. Command Team for a third deployment 2010, where he served as Special Assistant to then Major-General James L. Terry.[10] He consulted for US policy analyst Barnett Rubin.[11]
His religiously required facial hair prevents the use of regular military gas masks.[4] Sajjan invented his own gas mask that worked with his beard, and patented it in 1996.[12]
Nikki Haley, Governor of South Carolina was born as Namrata Randhawa in Indian Sikh Family. It was only in 1996 when she was 24-25 years old that she converted to Christianity.
Bobby Jindal converted to Christianity from Hinduism at the age of 18 or 19.
By contrast, Dalip Singh Saund didnt convert to Christianity. He was a Sikh and first Non-Abrahamic to be selected to Congress and that too in 1955.
That is a good list of achievements of Indian Americans, many of them Sikhs.
I worked with a Sikh engineer on one of my jobs. He was intelligent, respected, and well-liked by everyone in the office. Meditation is an important part of the Sikh religion and as a result many of them seem exceptionally calm.
There are about 25 million people in the world who practice Sikhism, the fifth largest religion in the world. Most of them are Indian in nationality, as the religion originated in the Punjab region of subcontinental India. Many uninformed Americans mistake Sikhs for Muslims. Nothing could be further from the truth. For one thing, Sikhs reject claims that any particular religious tradition has a monopoly on Absolute Truth. That is far different from Muslims ... and many Christians for that matter. I was raised as a Roman Catholic, for example, and I constantly heard it referred to as "the One True Church."
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