Dear Editor
This refers to your article A Question of Orthodoxy published in the Globe and Mail Toronto dated Jan.21995.
Through the exigencies of the prominent Sikh Organizations i had the opportunity of listening to your views you have been an ardent supporter and a keen proponent of Sikh cause and action in the past. But the Sikh Community in Canada and particularly the Sikh leaders who had promoted you and brought you in to the lime light were I am sure flabbergasted by your sudden onslaught especially now when Inkster hearing is just a few days away I would say it was back stabbing on your part.
I am certain that you will receive point by point reaction from your crest while fiends and promoters in the Sikh Community and probably from some academics. But at this juncture I just Want to say that some of your remarks are quite out of context. They are 30 derogatory that they are tantamount to blasphemy.
In the recent past there have been concerted efforts to defile Sikh Cultural Values and Religious Edicts and Scriptures a number of Latter day reserve search scholars have attempted to dislodged sentimental set up of religious reverence. All those such as G.B Singh Fauja Singh Piar Singh etc. had ended up in accepting their follies and latest among them is Dr. W. H. McLeod the pioneer of the negative movement in the West himself He has expressed his regrets (for his derogatory experimentation) in the January 1994 issue of The Sikh Review published from Calcutta India—a most prestigious and revered monthly magazine. It won’t be-very Jong until Dr Pashaura Singh follows suit.
Itlooks.as if either you have become the victim of anti-Sikh propaganda Is launched by governmental agencies or you have been suddenly blinded by certain ulterior forces bent upon discrediting the Sikh nation as a whole. And as they said in18th Century England a blind man will not thank you for a looking glass.
Pritpal S .Bindra
Mississauga Ont. Canada
Article extracted from this publication >> February 11, 1994
