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Why Are Gurdwara's In Usa/canada/uk Prone To Fire Damage?


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http://abc13.com/news/sikh-temple-destroyed-by-fire/663924/

Every other few months i read that another gurdwara has gone up in flames or been damaged by fire.

What is with that? Are arsonists deliberately targeting our places of worship in religiously motivated hate crimes?

Are they more accident prone due to no health and safety procedures and lack of proper management?

Is there some kind of insurance scam going on?

We need to resolve this issue soon as.

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Zero health & safety measures.

Management are still living back in the pend.

Majority of these incidents have occured in old, none purpose built gurdwaray. Old wiring, old piping, old services and an increased use of the building. We just walk into these old building, put down some new carpet, a lick of paint and boom we're done. And these gurdware have plenty of money...where does it go?

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In United states there are strict city and fire inspections happen before they open and every year. They need to pass inspections before they even operate.

Unfortunately, those inspectors dont stand around watching what goes on all year round. They pop by once a year by appointment

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Let's take the physical aspect of this out and put it on a spiritual aspect. You see in the past they used to say that Gurdwaras weren't well-built but Sikhs spiritually were, no it's changed to the reverse. I personally believe this is Vaheguru's way of telling Sikhs to wake-up from their sleep of paap. Because it says in Gurbani that everything is Vaheguru's hukam. As such we should focus not on building expensive Gurdwaras but rather make Guru Sahib happy with our souls.

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Waheguru Ji is obviously sending us a message but do Sikhs listen or care? Deaf, dumb and blind at the moment......So no the vast majority of fellow Sikhs will carry on building their mansion / palace like gurdwara's while the sangat indulges in atheist hedonist lifestyles and neglects the guru's path. Guru Ji would be ashamed of the type of Sikhs we have in charge of our committee's and important institutions (sri akal takht sahib). Sikhi is a joke to these guys who are in charge now. The ones who took Sikhi seriously become shaheed how ironic that those who sacrifice everything are no longer living on earth to guide Sikhs the ones who we dont want are in charge.

Look at the state of huge powerful gurdwara's in afghanistan and pakistan... when muslims took over again they started attacking them or converting them into masjids. Where is the glory of the days of Sikh raj gone? Its gone with those buildings because Sikhs didnt invest in the future and the youth... they didnt fiercely spread Sikhism into iran into arabia into other lands. They sat back, fought each other internal rivalries over land and non-sikhs others rule over them in their own homeland.

Sikhs have the power to change the system. And it starts by boycotting any gurdwara that spends more money on doing the place up, building wedding halls, extensions than actually parchar to get non-sikhs to convert. Imagine you had 10 fully paid parcharaks just in west london spreading the benefits of Sikhism over other lifestyle and ideologies and you will see a vibrancy in the community. Yet we have fat samosa chai pani punjabi castist atheist brigade who only beg for funds from the sangat when they need something from us it should be the other way around... they should be begging us how they can serve the sangat better and lead better not how they can beautify a gurdwara so they can show off to their mates and rival committee's.

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