It’s quite disheartening to read the above. Says a lot about the ‘do gooder’ self promoting ‘Sikh Leaders’ of this world…….. get in touch with reality I say.

I am a clean shaven Sikh and a sinner. I go to Gurdwara when I can, to repent and learn from my mistakes through the teachings of my religon. I enjoy being a Sikh. When someone asks me about my background, they are fastinated about my ‘Modern’ (only 500 odd years old) religon that is so user friendly and progressive.

After all the inroads our religon has made, the small minded will still revert to ‘hair’ as an arguement in defining a Sikh.

Well the letter just goes to show character of the writer.

@Gagaandeep — if it’s about what the child wants, then can we take the court out of it and remove the harsh language that attacks our faith, saying that Sikh children should cut their hair? If a court wasn’t involved, you’re right, this is a family thing. But now the courts are involved, and the courts should understand Sikhi. The court needs to watch the video that’s shown to all US Gov’t Law Enforcement Officials — “On Common Ground” (click to watch).

Dosen mean that one who’s hair is cut is not a true sikh. THat’s rubbish. If that’s the message he’s sending then isnt alcohol and smoking is a totall NO NO which i would say is worse than cutting one’s hair? He’s obviously just using this website to attract sympathy and luring us into it. How did he get past posting this message in the first place?

And DYa Singh…go fight a clean battle. Dun try using dirty tricks.

A boy’s father wants to have the right to cut his son’s hair against the wishes of the boy’s mother and, perhaps, the boy himself. According to the appeal, the father’s affidavit states that we wants to cut his son’s hair to “better fit in.”

Without passing any comment on the act of cutting one’s hair, I think it is sad that a little boy’s father wants to teach his son to bow to peer pressure and to always value “fitting in” before religious principle. I agree with Dya Singh that the default for a Sikh child (boy or girl) should be to not cut their hair, to teach them the significance of unshorn hair for Sikhs, and then they can make a decision when they get older how much that significance means to them.

In general, I think Dya Singh is right in trying to encourage the Panth to refute the claims that unshorn hair is less “modern” or socially acceptable. I have heard this a lot from Sikhs who cut their hair, that short hair is supposedly more “modern.” This seems to be an ignorant opinion. The Khalsa is a decidedly modern institution, way ahead of its time regarding its views on religious freedom and equality, for example.

But anyway, I don’t want to digress too far. For purposes of letting an Australian judge know that Sikhs can lead really great lives with uncut hair, I say we support Dya Singh. Ugh, can you imagine having Australian legal precedent that says otherwise, that to succeed in “modern” society you need to cut your hair?? What a horrible message that would be for Sikhs all over the world.

I write to you in total disgust of a letter of appeal that is in circulation from DYA SINGH of Australia. In the letter he proclaims and names certain individuals of not practising SIkh values and requests that fellow ” Sikhs” from around the world condemn this poor individual. The whole of Malaysia and Australia know what a Rogue Dya Singh really is. He consumes alcohol, his daughters smoke as well as consume alcohol and participate in promiscouous relationships. How dare he be allowed to get away with this claim on your website. You obviously do not check or simply deliberately want to pevert the cause of true Sikhism.
Sikhism is not a front, not a business and definitely not a ‘extreme ‘ religion that caters for fraudulent ragis to further increase their worldly games.
I am afraid that there may be US, UK segments and the greater Sikh communities in the world who may not know the true Dya Singh and family and hope that respected Sikh outfits like yourselves denounce such disrespect and extremists actions by hypocritical “Sikh leaders” aka Dya Singh.
S Kaur