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Summary of Question:Is This True? And One More Question.....
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Date Posted:Monday, 1/27/2003 6:02 PM MST

satshriakal,


I was wondering if this was true, I think it was a month ago that in leeds in the united Kingdom that 300 people connverted to islam and 30 in birmingham. The gurdwara gianis in granby st and soho road in birmingham went to stop this from hapenning. But the worst thing was that they was only able to persuade 3 girls to come back with them, the rest stayed to change their faith and their lives. My question is whether this true but I like to add something as well. I know that if it was true, it was their choice at the end of the day to change their faiths but dont you think the sikh community in general are doing very little about telling the younger generation about their religion?
When i heard this it just angered me from within of how these people can jus get up and change their religion without thinking of how much sacrifaces our gurus and our people have done to just keep this faith alive. Our community need to do something to stop this from happening even more. Otherwise if this carries on our faith will be lost.

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Sat Siri Akal.

Gosh - we don't really have any way to verify this. If someone reading this has first-hand experience and knows-please tell us.

Every person has their own path to God and our Gurus taught us to respect people of all religions. If a Sikh changes to another faith, feeling anger does us no good and hurts them, as well. Sikhism is such a beautiful spriitual tradition, though, the only way someone would want to leave it is if they never understood it properly to begin with, if they never experienced the Truth of it. The best way we can keep Sikhs as Sikhs is to live as our Gurus taught us and inspire each other to live it, as well. Then, in the beauty and bliss that comes from living the Guru's teachings, the hearts of our younger people will stay with us to the end.

Be an inspiration to all you meet. That is the very best that you can do.

I hope this has been helpful.

All love,

GPK



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