Sunday, February 13, 2011

A sikh sardar is nothing to be joked about.

Like Hinduism, Sikhism also have castes and subcastes. There is a caste called 'Jat'. These jat people were mostly into farming and were known as very hardworking caste. Since they were mostly into farming, they were not much educated. Since they have very strong physic and were doing hardworks using their strength, people use to say that a jat has low senses and is only good for hardworking, like we say "akal badi ya bhains". So there were jokes on jats challanging his intelligence much like pathans and khans in muslim religion as they also have strong physic and all that. But the time has changed, today these jatts and khans are the most successfull people. They are educated, they are into buisnessess, industry, entertainment. Many jatts are so rich and many are well settled in abroad, So no point of judging there intelligence. Now the problem here is that sikh and hindus from punjab knows very well about jatts as a caste. But the other people who doesn't know about jatts and all, have generallized this thing and they think the same for all sikhs and tease or make fun of all sikhs upon this. Why??? What is the connection of rest of the sikhs with this thing that once jatts were made fun of. That thing was related only to jatts, whether they are hindu or sikh or they are from punjab or haryana. That issue has nothing to do with a sikh religion. Is there any logic of teasing a person who was a Hindu and now following sikhism for learning the facts of life??? After this clarrification i don't think that there is anything funny about a sikh sardar upon which someone can joke on him or make fun of him.

2 comments:

  1. Muslim religion is also having casts and we are also having jutts but no Muslim tease jutts either it is Hindu,Sikh or a Muslim.I belong to a Muslim family and we like Sikhs.

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  2. I want to ask a question that which jatts are Muslim now.
    Were they Sikhs before ?

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