US army accepts first Sikh recruit.... turban, beard and all!

[m25operator]

I love that tune. Bulls on parade. " Rally round the family, with a pocket full of shells "

Very interesting allowing sikh soldiers in their normal dress, I am not totally opposed, but it does disturb normal US soldier protocol. Skinning a new recruit down, is part of the process of saying, you work for us now, and this is how we do it. Everyone  is treated the same, and you either bitch together, or accept together, for or against the machine, that is Team Building. You gang together for a common goal, whether it is for or against the status quo at the time. Hopefully in the end, you are a team. And on our side. The United States of course.

[tombogan03884]

  Found another one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtTOB8L6XRo&feature=related

These seem like OUR kind of folks .
It is worth noting that like the Irish, the Sikh gives his loyalty to the country he lives in, not "The old country".

[david86440]

Hey Tom,

I think you would fit in quite nicely with them...... 

[tombogan03884]

 Maybe, but you've never seen me with a beard .
Old Chinese guys laugh at me and say "OOh, That a shitty beard round eye"   

[Bic]

www.beliefnet.com/Entertainment/Quizzes/BeliefOMatic.aspx

I took this little quiz ( I think it was this one, there are several) a couple of years ago - basically a "What religion Are You Really? type o'thing and it turned out that i should be Sikh as probably should many people posting here. I don't know if they're accepting new members or whether i could ever learn to tie that thing around my head............but there it is.

What surprised (and annoyed) me most was that a month or so before taking the quiz I'd had an.....let's say 'interesting' discussion with a British, dastaar clad immigration official upon my arrival at Gatwick, travelling on a British passport, as to whether or not I should be allowed to enter my native country!

No hard feelings to the rest of 'em i guess,

                                                                  MP

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[david86440]

I think I should go to their Nagar Kirtan next weekend and perhaps I can learn something about my neighbors.

They really are nice people, plus I could use a new religion.





http://ypdtv.com/sikhtemple/2009/10/10/yuba-city-sikh-parade-nagar-kirtan-november-1-2009/

[tombogan03884]

96% Maybe I need to do some research  

[Pathfinder]

96% Maybe I need to do some research  

Um, check out the women. Almost enough (not really) to make a good Christian jump ship.      

[david86440]

Um, check out the women. Almost enough (not really) to make a good Christian jump ship.      

I tell you, some of the Sikh women in this town are really, really nice. Looks wise, personality wise, and walk 8 steps behind their men.

What more could you ask for?  

If you like your women wit a little extra hair....

The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandak Committee (SGPC) had also ruled that she was not a “true Sikh as she was plucking her eyebrows.”  .

Girls Who Plucked Eyebrow Are Not True Sikh as keeping unshorn hair was an essential and most fundamental component of the religion for men and women.

[TAB]

I think I should go to their Nagar Kirtan next weekend and perhaps I can learn something about my neighbors.

They really are nice people, plus I could use a new religion.





http://ypdtv.com/sikhtemple/2009/10/10/yuba-city-sikh-parade-nagar-kirtan-november-1-2009/

you know there is a large sikh population in Elk grove.  I've done some work for a couple of them, for the most part nice people. 

I don't know how to say this with out sounding bad... They smell...  It in no way has anything to do with how they are as a person, its  just something you will notice.