AMRITSAR SAHIB, Punjab—Balwinder Masih, a culprit of committing sacrilege last year in November was reportedly murdered by three unidentified assailants in front of her home in Vairoke village in Chogawan block.
Balwinder belongs to a Christian family and had committed sacrilege of Sri Guru Granth Sahib last year in November at historical Gurdwara Babe Di Ber. She was arrested by the Lapoke police under Sections 295-A, 506 and 511 of the IPC. She was later found guilty by the court and sent to police remand. She was currently out on bail due to deteriorating mental health.
SSP Harkamalpreet Singh told the press that three unidentified assailants knocked at the door of Balwinder Kaur’s home at 12:30 am of September 11. As soon as she opened the door, the assailants pulled her outside and murdered her with sharp-edged weapons. At the time of her murder, her husband Labh Masih was drunk and sleeping inside.
SSP informed the press that Balwinder Masih rushed inside after being attacked and attempted to wake up her husband, however he was heavily drunk and could not help Balwinder. She ultimately succumbed to her injuries.
Earlier in July, another beadbi culprit named Balwinder Kaur from Ghawaddi, Ludhiana was shot dead.
A faith which changes is not faith.
Lord Ram , ,Lord Krishna ,Lord Hanuman and Waheguru all are true. As is Lord Jesus ,Buddha and Allah.
You have not really understood the concept of monotheism and the distinction between the three monotheistic faiths. Christians believe that Jesus is God incarnate but utterly reject what they consider pagan belief in gods and goddesses and demigods (so no Lord Ram, Krishna or Hanuman) and believe they are the only true faith leading to God’s grace. The Muslims regard Jesus as a prophet only but not God incarnate – such a notion is blasphemous to them. Like the Christians they refute any belief in Lord Ram, Krishna and Hanuman but believe that they alone are the true faith leading to God. The Sikhs believe in One God only (He is the very same the Christians and Jews and Muslims are praying to because there is only One – Ik Onkar) but utterly reject belief in Gods, Godessess and demigods (so no Lord Ram, Krishna Hanuman et al). Sikhism howver teaches that there are many paths to God’s house and that Sikhi does not have a monoploy on Waheguru and that he can be reached by a sincere believer of whatever faith. SO you see you cannot believe in One God and at the same time hold that there also Gods, Goddesses and demigods – they are mutually incompatible beliefs like thinking the world is flat but also accepting at the same time it is a globe. Mixing up belief systems makes them all redundant – you can believe in one or another or indeed try each in turn to find that spiritual salvation a man yearns for but you can’t hold all of them to be true at the same time because they are teaching different doctrine and at times completely opposite messages. Hope this helps you.
You may follow what ever suits you.
No true Son of a Father will ever abandon his faith.
What changes is Science and evolution .
Faith by definition never changes.
‘No true son of a father will ever abandon his faith’? Is that why you support the ghar wapsi programme of the RSS which tries to intimidate, threaten and re-indoctrinate Dalits who find solace in Christianity? You want to believe in fictitious gods, goddesses, demons and demigods that is your perogative and as a Sikh I am obliged to defend your right to do so following the martrydom of Guru Tegh Bahadur but it is hypocritical of you to suggest that you would take into account changes in science and evolution too when both would disprove much of your faith. And you have also stated in relation to Sikhism that it must evolve yet here in relation to your own beliefs you contend ‘faith by definition never changes?! I would suggest you use a rational and more logically consistent rather than strictly dogmatic approach when it comes to holding a set of beliefs – they need to be challenged and if found wanting they need to be changed, that is how millions of Hindus came to the conclusion that Sikhi would realise a strictly monotheistic God and indeed why now Hindu Dalits find Christianity so attractive. Anyway I wish you luck with your ‘beliefs’ (which are antithetical to Sikh doctrine) and hope they will somehow bring you closer to Waheguru’s grace.
I think we are ignoring the fact that this woman was mentally disturbed hence she probably had no political or religious motive for the desecration. Instead of forgiving and being sensitive to this we decided to murder her – does this make us any better than the Taliban or ISIS? was she an easy target? – old, mentally disturbed, female, vulnerable – must have been some brave men that took revenge. Why not go after Badal, Gill, Sumedh, Rubero?I’m afraid our beautiful religion is being hijacked for anterior motives that are not related to upholding the sanctity of our GGS.
1984 has several causes but the few one I had like to mention is
1) Theological : The time. since our first Guruji rebelled against the established ancestrol Hindu faith the differences have gone bigger to the point of it getting manifested as 1984 genocide.
2) Sikh extremism :Sikh extremist were very active in 1980-1990 period leading to a back lash
3) Throne theory :-Lot of people are interested in the throne of India and Punjab so an attempt to De Sikhify India and Punjab was attempted by a genocide.
4) Empire theory :– The Empire through out the world forward there interest through unrests and wars.
5) Pakistan theory: Pakistan is interested in destabilizing Punjab by exaggerating and aggravating the Hindu Sikh differences.
From your post I am afraid we need look no further than your point number 1 (all the other objectionable points have been dismissed by me in previous posts numerous times as being factually and historically false premises) to find out why 1984 happened and why with Hinduvta mindset it will happen again. You don’t know Guru Nanak’s name only that it has to logically be the ‘first Guru’ (the Guruji bit fools no one, you don’t have any respect or reverence of Sikh Gurus) who ‘rebelled against ancestral Hindu faith’. He ‘rebelled’? Bad enough you constantly think Sikhs ‘rebel’ by daring to voice dissent but now even Guru Nanak ‘rebelled’ in your estimation? Wow! Even he – a visionary thinker blessed with divine spiritual enlightenment – is not entitled to think for himself and reject the injustices and absurdities he could see with his own eyes because they were the primitive beliefs of his forefathers? You know cavemen believed fire was a manifestation of magic and thunder and lightning were somehow supernatural beings? That was an ancestral faith once too – should we be beholden to those primitive thoughts even though they are patently false and absurd? What did Guru Nanak ‘rebel’ against? Ancestral faith that propagated belief in animal worship, fire puja, worshipping of long dead people throwing water from rivers into the air to reach them in the afterlife, idolatory, astrology, caste, sati, female infanticide and prostitution (devadasi tradition), blind ritualism and the pagan belief of worshipping a multitude of gods, Goddessess, demigods and demons in the same way the ancient Romans, Greeks and Egyptians worshipped their eventually forsaken deities. You want us to go backwards and give up all reason to a Kalyug dark ages with a stratified caste system where each person born automatically knows his place and stays there for the rest of his life no matter his merits? You call Guru Nanak a ‘rebel’ having ‘seditious’ thoughts against the old order but I remind you without his revolutionary vision the ninth Guru (his name was Guru Tegh Bahadur as you clearly won’t know that either) would not have been martyred for the sake of your Hindu forefathers who were too cowardly to stand up for their own religious rights in the face of Moghul Islamic tyranny and your ancestral faith would have been extinguished in northern India altogether.
Sikhs reading your post must understand that it is basic Hinduvta extremist revisionist myopia exposed here. RSS, BJP, Arya Samaj, Shiv Sena et al see Sikhi as an an impudent upstart faith, a usurper – they cannot condemn Sikhi as a foreign religion in the way they condemn Islam and Christianity because it was founded in the Punjab and is not an Abrahamic faith so they are intent instead of absorbing it, strangling it, chipping away at its tenets and distinct identity to finally claim it as being nothing more than an offshoot of Hinduism because its existence brings into sharp focus and contrast the ignominies of Hinduvta social injustices (that cannot survive in the 21st century where people grasp the freedom of civil liberties and human rights) and theological doctrine (which cannot stand science and rational reason).
The Christians have a saying and I will quote it because it is apt and also bound to irritate your detestation of other faiths, particularly one from another part of the world. ‘When I was a child I thought like a child. Now I am a man it is time to put away such childish things’. My Hindu forebears understood this (even though they must have been illiterate and ignorant) and abandoned and rejected the ancestral faith of Hinduism because it was clearly a mightily flawed, primitive and morally indefensible theology. It is not called rebellion but education to reject false hypotheses. You may cling to a dark ages mentality but the rest of us prefer the light – easier to read in and as we know you only want a certain class of people to do any reading.
The law makers of Punjab have made it a crime to desecrate a religious feelings.
The Police now need to do the Job of catching the culprits.
We got to till then be patient and law abiding.
Please respect Law made by our Law makers.
We will other wise go the Taliban way.
I was pointing out to you that both the law makers and law enforcers have singularly failed to end this beadbvi issue and there is suspicion from both their actions (inactions) and behaviour that they do not regard this issue to be the most urgent issue it actually is. Whether that is from insensitivity or actual total disrespect and disregard for Sikhs is debatable – although the murder of two protesting Sikhs by police officers who have to this day not been suspended let alone charged with their killing despite the findings of Justice Katju is very suspicious. Justice must be done and must also be seen to be done. As for telling me top be patient, I would remind you Sikh victims of 1984 are still waiting and patience is not forever. And again never mention the word Taliabn on this Sikh website unless of course you are referring to the RSS, SHiv Sena which are equivalent of Hinduvta Taliban.
Bhai Jee very well put but it would seem to me that the RSS agent cannot understand the issues despite explaining time after time and in detail – he only seem to understand one thing Empires and States… repeated all the time – he need to search history as to what happened to the Mughal Empire and British RaJ? I wonder who is next to be taken out?
He talks about law-abiding society – what happens when RSS attacks singled out sikhs and police beat an old man for crossing the road because some minister was to pass in his car.
Anyway all is well explained but it will go on deaf ears…..
This is so very wrong.
The culprits need to be caught by the police.
No one should be allowed to take law in his own hand.
We should always be a law abiding society.
Desecration of holy book should be solved by dialogue and not violence.
Part of the problem is evident in your posting which reflects the crass attitude, ignorance, insensitivity and irresponsibility of those in the police and polity when you again (despite the numerous times I have explained it to you) talk of desecration of ‘holy book’ when it comes to beadbi of Guru Granth Sahib which is NOT a holy book but the eternal, living GURU for the Sikhs. As such beadbi is a crime that Sikhs cannot stand and is certainly not one which can be avoided by ‘dialogue’. What dialogue do you want the Sikhs to have with those who disrespect and tear the very flesh of the body of our Guru exactly? ‘Oh, please do not do that and we then will just keep our religion confined to the Gurdwara and behind closed doors of our home’? That latter sentiment you have expressed many times. Your hypocrisy and cynicism in this matter is evident when you consider your response to so called ‘sedition’ when you are more than happy to justify any and every extra judicial excess. For the SIkhs the magnitude of the crime of beadbi of our Guru far exceeds sedition and this needs to be drummed into your head and your Hinduvta compatriots. As for the culprits of beadbi need to be caught by the police – the Punjab police have demonstrated very clearly over more than a year that they are either incapable or unwilling to do their duty and in fact are perfectly willing to shoot dead Sikhs in the street for demonstrating against Beadbi. The Punjab Govt reacted to the attack on a prominent RSS leader (and we still don’t know whether this attack was self inflicted in order to raise his profile and obtain police protection for the sake of political prestige as one of his compatriots did recently) in Punjab by immediately referring the matter to the CBI for an official probe but did that with beadbi only after more than a year of failed police investigations and Sikh unrest (not to mention arrests of Sikhs and the police murder of two of them in the street). The continuing beadbi of Guru Granth Sahib in the Punjab should be the number one priority of Punjab Govt who should be throwing every resource of the state at it – this means offering crores of rewards for information leading of arrest of suspects and mandatory life sentence without possibility of parole and indeed deaths sentence for those convicted – all widely publicised by the Govt. The SGPC (puppet organisation of Badal Govt) should be paying for installation of CCTV in every Gurdwara’s entrance and paying Sikhs all around Punjab to live stream monitor the footage from within their own homes – providing security for Gurdwaras and employment for unemployed Sikhs at the same time.