Pakistani authorities forbid Sikh processions, allow Muslim ones

They cite security concerns, but their concern for security appears inconsistent. Islamic Tolerance Alert from the Islamic Republic of Pakistan: "Pakistan prohibits visiting Sikh pilgrims' nagar kirtan," by Amir Mir for DNAIndia, November 23 (thanks to S.K.S.):

Pakistani authorities have stopped hundreds of visiting Sikh pilgrims from organising nagar kirtan, a religious procession, to mark the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev at Gurdwara Janam Asthan in Punjab's Nankana Sahib district.

The pilgrims have also been prohibited, citing security concerns, from performing parkash (prayer) at Nankana Sahib's seven adjacent gurdwaras affiliated to Guru Nanak.

Nagar kirtan carries Sikhs' sacred book Guru Granth Sahib in a palki (palanquin) through the streets of Nankana Sahib touching seven gurdwaras affiliated to Baba Guru Nanak....

There used to be an air conditioned bus to carry Guru Granth Sahib, but the practice was suspended after law and order situation in Pakistan started deteriorating.

The Sikh visitors have criticised the restrictions imposed by the Pakistani authorities, saying if Muslims are allowed to take out processions, they too should be given permission....

Uh, yeah.

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Sikhism is monotheistic, tolerant, relatively progressive, and allows women great movement and freedom. It claims that revelation is progressive and ongoing.

In a word, Sihkism's tenets are seen as a huge threat to the followers of "the religion of peace."

I'm waiting for Hillary to condemn this has vociferiously as she did the EU countries' that banned the burqa in public.

Talk about moral unbalance.

Islamic tolerance to other religions is such a sham that Muslim apologists all over the world yap about!!! Pakistan is a prime example; Hindu, Sikh minority population in Pakistan has dwindled from about 18% at the time of partition of India in 1947 to about 3% or less now. What happened here, how did the population go down so drastically. These people were forcibly converted to Islam or they left Pakistan. Such wonderful tolerant people these Muslims are. Just for comparison, the Muslim population in India has grown four folds in the same time, from about 40 million to 150 million now. Muslim hypocrisy is so badly exposed by this comparison.

These days there is a daily occurrence of kidnapping of Hindu young girls and forcible conversion to Islam and then marrying them to Muslims. Police does not interfere, and the girls are forbidden even to contact their Hindu families since they are Muslim now. Sad, sad...

The story in Muslim Bangladesh is exactly the same where the Hindu and christian minority population has gone down from about 23% at the time of independence to less than 8% now.

Though Pakistan allowed Indian Sikhs to visit the holy birth place of Guru Nanak but did not allow them to take out religious procession. Just shows the Muslim tolerance once again.

"The Sikh visitors have criticised the restrictions imposed by the Pakistani authorities, saying if Muslims are allowed to take out processions, they too should be given permission...."

These Sikh visitors apparently have no idea how things work in muslim majority areas. They take for granted their freedoms in India, UK, USA, Canada, Australia etc. and it probably does not even 'occur' to them that there are places where things are different, and where they will have to accept whatever is dictated to them.

I think I agree with Pakistan authorities for not permitting the religious procession. Lately, the Taliban and other true muslims have been bomb-attacking the minorities places of worship and their processions. It would be wise of Sikhs to wait until the environment in that country is better. Though I think they should have been permitted to perform Parkash at the seven other gurudwaras on the condition that they do not reach there as a procession.

It claims that revelation is progressive and ongoing.

I grew up a Sikh. I never heard of that, though I am no scholar. Where did you get that info?

In a word, Sihkism's tenets are seen as a huge threat to the followers of "the religion of peace."

I am not sure about that. Sikhism does not have fear of hell or rewards of heaven among its teaching. Those two things are primitive psychology that is hard to overcome. Secondly, Sikhism has been in the area for centuries and barely any muslims converted. But then miracles do happen :-)

Sikhs have always been persecuted by Muslims, sometimes involving breaking on the wheel and boiling alive: http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/muslim-attacks-on-sikhs-islamic-jihad.html

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