Handling Islamic Fundamentalists with love.

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Written by a fellow GurSikh, bhai Anmol Singh from Mumbai, India

This is an expirence with a Muslim collegue of mine who once expressed

her

disire to become my life partner. But some how I backed out since I

planned

to marry a lady from my own community. Some how I regrat this decision

since

no Sikh women is ready to accept me with Turban. Hoping some day some

one

would except me the way I am.

Make a Movie called KUDI

MUSSALMAANI

I have read the article on this movie Ladki Panjaaban. I have visited

the

web site of this film; it is a very clever strategy by the Islamic

fundamentalists to demoralize the moral of Sikhs. In response to this I

have

written a script which is a strategy to win hatred with love.

The Script goes as

follows

My basic idea is to project a Sikh man as a strong and a humble

character. I

am trying to project the young generation of present times. This is

based

more on my observations of marriages across beliefs with no hatred as

such.

An educated Muslim woman sees a Sikh Army Officer in the Royal British

Army

parade near the Buckimgum Palace in London and is thoroughly impressed

by

his personality & character. British Army has many Sikh soldiers and

other

from Asian communities.

This lady decides to meet this person. They meet in a departmental store

in

London. Their meeting continues and their friendship develops further.

This

Sikh person asks her one day so when is she planning to get married. He

says

>that he can recommend one of his close associates, Iqbal Qasim who is a

doctor in the British Army. Recently he had been to his place in

Manchester

during Id.

In turn Muslim lady expresses her desire to become the life partner of a

Sikh man. This man is surprised and confused as well and comments that

what

did she find in him. She says his humble & generous attitude appeals her

very much. The man is impressed by her and tells her that since we both

are

from different communities its better if you understand our culture and

then

decide whether to go ahead or not. This impresses the Muslim woman for

his

great character and kind gesture.

Now this Muslim woman meets people from the Sikh community. She goes to

the

Gurudwara and sees people covering their head and bowing in front of the

Guru Granth Sahib exactly the way Muslims bow during Namaz. She

experiences

some similarly in religious rituals. She also bows in front of the Guru

Granth Sahib and sits and listens to Shabads. She sees famous Pakistani

Singers Abida Parveen and Reshma singing Gurbani. In other words people

of

her own belief are being honored with no discrimination. She meets

people

from other communities like the Hindus, Sindis, Buddhists, etc. coming

to

the Gurudwara and is further impressed by the equality with which

Sikhism

treats other beliefs. She has langer and is again impressed by the sewa

carried out without any discrimination.

She goes through the exhibition and goes through the close association

of

Sikh Gurus with various Muslim Saints like Mardana The one who

accompanied

Guru Nanak Dev Ji through out journery across India, Sri Lanka and

Middle

East for 40 years, Guru Nanak Dev Jis visit to Mecca. The result of

which

many Muslims are strong devotees of Guru Nanak Dev Ji apart from Allah.

Mia

Mir the one who laid the foundation stone for Golden Templ

e, close

association of Bahadur Shah Zafar with Guru Gobind Singh Ji, etc.

Maharaja

Ranjit Singhs foreign minister and personal body guard were Muslims. She

realizes though Sikhs fought various wars with Mughals and Afghans but

were

never against Muslims at heart.

She meets the Sikh man and is tells him about her experiences and is

firm to

marry him. But the Sikh man wants to examine her. Now he asks her a

question. Imagine a situation like 84 riots in Delhi and your man is

burned

alive in front of you and you have grown up children they also killed

still

you would like marry me. She is confused and says why he says so. Then

the

man replied he is a Sikh the one who can be distinguished among

thousands

and is very soft target for such type of discrimination. This is not in

the

case with other beliefs. She is still firm to marry him.

The Sikh man is still not satisfied and tells her about what Sikh women

experienced during 84 riots. Sikh women cut the hairs of their own

children.

Because a women is a mother and a mother is always selfish when it comes

to

her children. A womans motherhood is bigger than any other belief and

the

feelings and pain is same all over the world.

Now the Sikh man sites examples of womans motherhood in different

cultures.

The man says he had once been to Siberia on UN mission; there he saw a

Russian couple with a 4-month-old baby is stuck in a snowstorm in 20

degrees. The rescue teams are not able to access the couple. The woman

has

nothing to eat in order to feed her baby. So she eats ice. The result of

which she is able to feed her baby but her body temperature goes low and

she

passes away. But the couple saves the baby.

He sites an example of Gujarat Earthquake. A year ego he was in Gujarat,

India when earthquake struck. A scene when the ruble was removed a woman

was

found dead with her baby in her

arms still being fed. The baby was still

alive.

She starts weeping. That is where the man says if she can become a

strong

mother, and will not give up the belief what ever the situation may be

then

she is invited to be his life partner. Its upto her to decide. The man

walks away.

In other words being a Sikh maintaining love is not easy.

In simple words the Sikh man is not trying to bash up his culture on

this

Muslim lady.

The women feels the strength within her and holds his hand and tells her

that today I have experienced how strong you are within, so what if I am

a

lady for a different culture any women from any belief would be lucky to

your life partner. Finally the man is impressed by her and embraces her.

She narrates her experience with the Sikh man whom she wants to marry to

her

parents; her parents are also impressed and tell her that you are a very

lucky woman. You can go ahead.

Conclusion

In other words we need tell the to the world that how strong in

character we

Sikhs are. If other beliefs are trying to misguide Sikhs through wrong

media

bashing, lets use the same strategy on them.

I believe that we are not trying to discriminate any other belief but

expressing that how close we are to other beliefs being a separate

identity.

Infact winning hatred with love. This concept needs to be practically

implemented.

Regards,

Anmol Singh

[JSingh]

very well written

[gupt faujaan]

true phaji.