re: Massive angry crowd gathering outside of S Hampton Police in support of Nowak

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...Sikhs do not actively proselytise, although voluntary converts are generally accepted.

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Kind of an aside, but I read somewhere a while back that said this guy's a convert. HIs Sikh name is Gobind Seva Singh. Hollywood types tend to be anti-religious or "flirt" with things like Buddhism, so it was a bit strange to me that one converted to Sikhism.

And, yes, Sikhs are pretty nonviolent generally and have only tended to retaliate against the majority Hindu government in India when attacked such as the storming of the Golden Temple on Indira Ghandhi's orders in 1984 and her subsequent assassination in 1988 by two of her Sikh bodyguards. Sikhs have put up with a lot of shite in their native country.

As someone posted earlier, though, the outrage, which I believe is justified, in this incident really does seem to be about the double standard and the complicity of the police and those in power when it comes to the disparate treatment of whites vs. non-whites in the UK and not so much about the Sikh religion itself.