Comments on: War Nerd Classic: In Praise Of Sikhs, “The Coolest Warrior Tribe Around”

By: Guru

Guru — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:51:51 +0000

This article is nonsense.

At no point did Alexander the Great ever say that the people of Punjab should all be called Alexander. And anyway, that was nearly 2000 years before any Sikhs were around, so hardly relevant.

Also the Sikhs would have no more conquered India than the Canadians would have conquered America. And for your information the Zulu tribe of South Africa had thousands of non-Zulu tribe members forcibly assimilated into them. It was British and Dutch presence ironically that meant that people had even heard of them. The same with the Sikhs. If the British had not isolated them so much, everybody would have just assumed they were Hindus.

This is not take anything away from Sikh people, who are very nice from my experience, but just to highlight that this author talks a fair amount of nonsense.

By: hindu from india

hindu from india — Sat, 04 May 2013 17:53:07 +0000

i am a hindu from india. sikhs are very brave and its completely diffrent from hinduism. they are good people and also very helpful person. in the temples of sikhs, everyday nearly lakhs of indian people eat food of free of cost.these people also save hindu peoples from sadis mughal emporer.india’s prime minister and also army chief is a sikh. they are such a brave hearts. they wear sword because of doing justice. they did many thing for india. population of sikh india is 2.3% but they are also living legends.

By: S Kooner

S Kooner — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:13:28 +0000

I am often told by friends you can’t get to god unless your my religion…”How is your religion different?” I say the Sikh Gurus came here just like other prophets from other faiths to spread the message of the almighty…but in the process ended up getting worshipped themselves. The Sikh Gurus had one objective, to connect human beings to god through rightousness and spirituality. A verse from the Sikh Scriptures translates..Nanak Yearns to become the dust of the feet of the humble servant of the lord”. Guru Nanak says “if you want to play this game of love, come to me with your head in your palm, once you have crushed all ego and worldly desires”

By: S Kooner

S Kooner — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 01:06:45 +0000

Mr M Gandhi…was the Indian version of Hitler! He infact wrote a few letters to him in awe, he also had a gay relationship with a german bodybuilder..he used to test his spirituality by sleeping naked with his nieces…some mornings he would wake up disaapointed as he would fail to keep his sexual urges in control…now this is the father of India…load of bollox if you ask me. Sikhism was created because it denounced certain practices of Islam and Hindhuism, Brahmins who were the elite of the caste groups were the only people who had access to their religious scriptures, anybody else was forbidden. Guru Nanak preached a message of peace love and harmony, the Sikh Scriptures were hand written by its 10 Gurus and are authentic and to date are proving history right. Just recently reports have been dug out in the vatican that confirm Guru Nanaks visit to the pope and how he denounced the imprisonment of people at the time, Chritian and Chinese missionaries were witnesses to the execution of the 5th Guru, Guru Arjan Dev Ji and British Officers witnessed the excecution of Banda Singh Bahadur by the moghuls, and also the 700 Sikhs that were massacred leading upto his execution, it is noteworthy that not a single person converted to Islam.

By: S Kooner

S Kooner — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:57:44 +0000

Sad to see how much of the debates have gone off track, however this was a fascinating article.

Bertrand Russell (Philosopher, Mathematician 1872-1970)

If some lucky men survive the onslaught of the third world war of atomic and hydrogen bombs, then the Sikh religion will be the only means of guiding them. When asked, isn’t this religion capable of guiding mankind before the third world war? He said, ‘Yes it has the capability, but the Sikhs haven’t brought out in the broad daylight the splendid doctrines of this religion, which has come into existence for the benefit of the entire mankind. This is their greatest sin and the Sikhs cannot be freed of it.’

By: Me Too

Me Too — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 18:40:58 +0000

What a load of horseshit. You need to learn how to research history and not rely so much on propaganda written on Sikh separatist websites. Pretty much every assertion of ‘fact’ you made about historical events and personalities is wrong.

By: Asikh

Asikh — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 02:19:28 +0000

@sanjay

almost everything you wrote is factually incorrect. sikhs are not hindus as they are not muslims. anyone interested in understanding the happenings of 1980s in punjab should do a google search and please read all accounts and then intelligently construct the truth from it.

some also wrote about Guru Nanak studing Islam and following islamic monotheism. Guru Nanak did not formally study islam. he would have known it from muslims who were a good part of the population where Nanak lived. islamic monotheism is an extension of the semitic monotheism albeit with some differences. sikhism rejects the monotheistic beliefs as present in the semitic religions. the idea of a god in heaven, a satan in hell, angels, demons, judgement day etc. are rejected in sikhism. Sikh monotheism believes in one source – called waheguru, or the wonderous/awesome lights that dispels the darkeness of ignorance. all of the universe including all humanity on our planet, according to sikhism, has the same source and this is why sikhism promotes human equality. this is also the reason why sikhism does not believe in forcibly converting people like many other religions do.

By: H Singh

H Singh — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 23:43:56 +0000

Check out the history of Banda Singh Bahadur and Baaj Singh as well some of my favorite’s in the endless list of Sikh badass’s. When the Moguls caught him(Banda) they cut his son into pieces and fed it to him -To piss off the moguls that much he really had them cornerd for a bit.
Also I must mention that during the initial militarization of the Sikhs, these warrior were basically peasants, young men with backbones who said to hell with the old lame traditions of the land, I’am gonna get me a Mogul head. Untrained, farm tools converted to weapons, no food, no resources -just lots of Grit..

By: Sly Coorder

Sly Coorder — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 06:06:53 +0000

A retired Golden Temple high military officer was recently assaulted by four men with long beards, “unofficially” suspected of being Sikh.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/01/attempted-murder-indian-military-officer

Reminded me of this War Nerd classic.

By: TheExilee

TheExilee — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:40:23 +0000

Hey Mark Ames and John Dolan, how much do we have to pay you guys to get Brecher’s tubby butterfingers hammering away on the keyboard again? The reposts are getting beyond a joke! Just put up a donate button to bring Brecher back, and we’ll sort it I’m sure.

By: Alan

Alan — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:16:57 +0000

Hi, cards on the table born again atheist, with no delusions of empire, generations of family who didn’t give a monkeys about the empire and were happy staying on the farm drinking rough cider and probably reproducing without due care and attention, only have to look back at my own grandmother for proof of that.
Having had the luxury of a working mind I have seen the world and it’s not black and white guys there’s a billion shades of grey unless of course you live in a fundamentally reductionist mind set, very rarely there is right or wrong without extenuating circumstances, did I mention slight liberal leanings? I have met Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, Satanist and the occasional Christian I would be happy to call brother or sister, or even darling if the mood took me, I draw the line at Scientology and their ilk, I prefer a dirty brain to a washed one.
What saddens me is that one of the truly great religions if you look at the quality of their followers is the Sikh religion it is an absolute duty to protect the weak, admittedly whilst in the environs of the Golden temple I saw a petty thief beaten with Bamboo staves by the priests all of 2 foot away from me, with the excuse that they knew it was him and he had done it before obviously deterrence wasn’t working there that well.
I have also visited Gudwarha temples they provide food and shelter to any who ask as do many Muslim places of worship who in India also provide free schools and hospitals, can see would want to bomb them given the rough ride free health care has received in the US. The point is not religion it is what you do with it. To my mind it is not sitting back and letting the world be shit on it is if you are willing to consider taking in that orphan regardless of background and protect them like your own.
You have to make a stand against unthinking bigotry when have the Sikhs ever planned an outrage in the US? They won’t they have a code of honour. In defence of the Sikh community, as if they needed it, not only do they do more on a practical level than most of the Christian community, but any race that can drink export strength Newcastle Brown is a force to be reckoned with.

By: Sikh

Sikh — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:54:59 +0000

@Sanjay
Maybe you should read Indian History again, when Muslim’s rulers were fucking and taking away your mothers and sisters, it was Sikh’s has guts to bring them back.
This history reality will put back your head on shoulders.

By: Vendetta

Vendetta — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:05:46 +0000

gc, are you really unaware of how the phrase “panties in a twist/wad/knot/bundle/bind/bunch/fucking whatever” is used? Or just particularly insecure?

I’m having a little laugh at the Indian guy having a better grasp of your language than you.

By: patb

patb — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 21:40:02 +0000

http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/MONITOR/ISSUE3-6/sandhu.html

o quote Lt. Gen. V. R. Raghavan about his remarks regarding 1 Sikh’s efforts after landing at Srinagar [8]: “The battalion with approximately 500 troops had gained by its fast moves and self reliant actions, two days’ time against a much larger force of 5000. This was enough to bring in more troops into Srinagar and the capital was thus saved from falling into enemy hands. The history of Jammu and Kashmir would have been different without this one infantry battalion being able to change it decisively.”

This battalion suffered 494 men lost in Kashmir.

By: CensusLouie

CensusLouie — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 04:46:56 +0000

Here’s a little international dispute that would do the nerd proud.

http://news.yahoo.com/japan-nationalists-land-isle-heart-row-china-012057812.html

Japanese and Chinese nationalists duel over worthless rock islands by taking turns swimming past the coast guard to planet little flags on them. It’s 21st century “warfare” at its finest!

By: gc

gc — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:29:25 +0000

@101

You fuckers should all apologize unless you can get back to debating the war-nerdy details as opposed to the internet trash talk I can find in any youtube comments section.

You should be so lucky to read a Youtube comments section with as much War Nerdy (and other varieties of) substance as I gave you in some of my comments here, ingrate.

By: Ozinator

Ozinator — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:29:23 +0000

@99

OK gc, I’m sorry that you won’t forgive me for what you said to me.

By: Ozinator

Ozinator — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 04:27:08 +0000

So gc,

We have proof of your racist comments here but my comments were as innocent as any Jew bringing up the FACT that “Girls” is a show written by and about Jewish girls. In fact Jewish press DID bring up that fact and you said they weren’t racist because they weren’t me.

You seem ticklish about being called a racist and I want to know more about your feelings regarding more cultures. You’ve covered Indians and Goyim…..what do you think about other others?

By: joe_bob

joe_bob — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:11:23 +0000

You fuckers should all apologize unless you can get back to debating the war-nerdy details as opposed to the internet trash talk I can find in any youtube comments section. I was actualy enjoying myself earlier

By: spf15

spf15 — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 02:58:06 +0000

@97

joe_bob,

A conversation with a moron like gc hardly qualifies as a “debate” (or come to think of it, even a conversation), but let that not detain us.

I would suggest anything by Ramesh Chandra Majumdar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramesh_Chandra_Majumdar).

There is a bibliography at the end of that wiki article.

An American friend has read and has recommended the following book: http://www.amazon.com/India-A-History-John-Keay/dp/0802137970/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1344998971&sr=8-3&keywords=indian+history

I haven’t read it myself so I cannot comment on it personally, but I trust him enough to relay that recommendation.