satnaam ji - dandauth bandhana ji
I received an emailk full of sardar jokes- the underlying thing was to put down the image of "sardar". In UK we have jokes about the Irish , in every country they pick a group to make fun of. The Germans picked the Jews and 6 million of them were killed.
Unfortunately, it is still nindya - slander, as its less than the Truth about those people. People say but its just a bit of fun. Well actually in the old days the word Sardar was a word of great respect for great Sikhs. So now it shows in India that the word Sardar has had its imagine changed to a great fool.
In Rwanda there was genoicide in the 1990s. I wondered how could millions of people be killed by their neighbours? It turns out that for the previous ten years the rulers and generals had been slowly but surely polluting the minds of the massses with derogatory remarks about the other tribe. From media articles, to radio shows, to jokes like this. So the ruling tribe after 10 years saw the other tribe as nothing more than animals. When the killing started they had no problem in killing human animals.
We have to watch out for slander at all times.
dust of your feet
Harjt
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