LONDON RIOTS, INTEGRATION, SIKHS

One of the things established by the London riots is that multi-culturalism really works, and benefits society.
The criminals represent a nice cross-section of ethnicities, all of them English-speaking. And in that they speak with that typical lower-class British accent that sets your teeth on edge, even the non-Anglo-Saxon members of the mob prove that they have integrated completely.
The looters, of whatever origin, are British through and through.
All in all, the anarchy of the past three days has been a truly splendid demonstration that the British lower-class weltanschauung appeals across an incredibly broad social spectrum.


As an aside, I should mention that there are some British linguistic hues that are absolutely nauseating – not all of them English, some of them Scottish. Largely this is because of the yobbo behaviour familiarly associated with such speech-mannerisms.
When British soccer hooligans riot or get puking drunk, at home or abroad, those very same repulsive accents are extremely well represented.
Drunks, vandals, opportunists, thugs, and potential gang-rapists.
Charming.

No wonder the British were the most unloved imperial power till we Yanks came along.


Waheguru ji ka khalsa, waheguru ji ki fateh!


But the one thing that thoroughly stands out is the very English resolve of the Sikh community of Southall to bash the bejayzes out of any hoodlums who might try to start something in their neighborhood. Last night, several hundred sardars gathered to defend their place of worship (the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara) and their community. Throughout the night, the riot-jugend sent in exploratory parties, which took one look at the Sikhs and decided that setting fire to other districts might be far more profitable.

Per an article by Jiten Karia in the Financial Times:
"At this temple, a massing of Southall’s Sikh community acted as sentries to protect against any rioting threat that dared make its presence felt."
End quote.

[SOURCE: Southall Sikhs gather ... .]


Likely the prospect of being clobbered by a bunch of Punjabis armed with hockey sticks and antique talwars was distinctly uninviting to Britain's urban unemployables.


'Chun kar az hama hilate dar guzast, Halal ast burdan ba shamshir dast.'


It is never advisable to piss-off the Sikhs - doing so can make very bad things happen.
As Guru Gobind advised his followers, "When all other means have failed, it is right to draw the sword".
The likelihood that misbehavior would result in danger to life and limb was enough to prevent the yobbo-caste from crapping in Southall.
More so than the slim possibility of being arrested by the over-stretched London authorities.


"We haven’t got any real external support from the police as this was organised within the community, but we’d be surprised if any of the rioters came here -- we’re here to show that we will not take this."

[Community member Tejpal Singh, quoted in same article cited above.]


I would advise the English to establish many more gurdwaras, and invite in far more Sikhs.
Doing so will promote order and maintain the peace.
A Sardar's home is, after all, his castle.

Or at the very least, a redoubt from which he will not lightly be dislodged.



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