Originally Posted by
GTechR
Dojj... genuine question mate.
Sikhism, is this not the main religion of India? And isn't the whole reason for Pakistan coming into being down too the fact the Indian Sikhs and Muslims where at each other pretty much like the Catholic/Protastant thing in Ireland? And until quite recently (may still be happening) the 2 countries where pretty much at war with each other over the Kashmeer? Punjab? Somewhere anyway... And again in Srilanka, there is a whole Sikh/Muslim Confrontation?
If thats all correct, (like I say I could be totally wrong) why would any Sikh even want to join with the Muslim Extremists? I know the whole point of the complaint is that there aern't but I don't get why they would report they are.
way way back, 100's of years ao, islam was the middle east and hinduism was in the indian subcontinent
islams spread was being pushed by the ruling moguls with the basics that you converted or you were killed
seeing as the people in what is now know as the punjab bore the brunt they rose up and because the sikh religeon
when the british gave india it's independance it was split into india and pakistan with india being mainly hindu and pakistan being mainly muslim but the language is still fairly similar
but yes, the majority of sikhs live either side of that border and of the 22 million sikhs in the world, it's a fairly small group of people when you think that we are probably outnumbered by the hindu's probably 50:1 so they aren't really going to give up a far larger proportion of their country to a much smaller population of sikhs