LONDON:
British police arrested 55 people and seized blades at a Sikh temple on Sunday, following a protest against a mixed marriage.
Leamington Spa Gurdawara
Armed officers were deployed to the Gurdwara Temple in Leamington Spa, central England, at around early on Sunday after a group of men entered the building. A total of 55 people were arrested for aggravated trespass in what police chief David Gardner described as “an escalation of a local dispute”. “A significant number of bladed weapons were seized from the scene,” he said adding that no-one was injured in the incident.
Gurmel Singh, secretary general of Sikh Council UK, said protesters walked freely into the temple and did not break into the building. He said the group then held prayers and a sit-in to oppose a wedding due to take place between a Sikh and a non-Sikh. “Marriage is a sacred institution and in our culture we have no problem with people of difference races getting married, but the religious doctrine says this particular ceremony is reserved for two Sikhs,” Singh told AFP.
According to The Independent, one protester broadcast a Facebook Live video from among the wedding guests at the gate, where tensions were clearly high. At one point, the man filming can be heard saying: “These lot don’t even know that I’m against them”, and at another he points the camera towards the temple, saying: “Leamington Gurdwara, allowing interfaith marriages. Sikhs and Muslims, it’s messed up.”
One eyewitness, Perry Phillips, said the protest appeared to be peaceful. “I could see at the entrance to the Gurdwara a lot of people were outside but it was peaceful, there was no shouting or anything,” he told the Press Association. “There’s a big Sikh community in Leamington Spa and a lot of people were turning up,” he added.
I am a Sunni and I married a Shia
The Sikh 2 Inspire group said those arrested were carrying the kirpan, a ceremonial Sikh dagger, and criticised the response to the Gurdwara Temple incident. “The media and police have victimised the Sikh appearance and defamed the Sikh community in the UK,” the group said on Facebook, calling on their supporters to take their kirpan to their local police station and explain its significance to officers.
There are more than 420,000 Sikhs in England and Wales, according to 2011 census data, accounting for 0.8 per cent of the population. Christians make up the largest religious group, accounting for 59.3 per cent of the population, followed by Muslims (4.8 per cent) and Hindus (1.5 per cent).
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Houses Of Parliament::- Typical, still the toothless Bulldog. Evidence of Christianisation (forcefed,, divided, from birth to burial, in the steps of JC, “no greater ….. for the jews”). Like taking candy from a baby.
A Muslim is not allowed to marry a non-Muslim.
Marriage is as important to the future of the nation as climate change and poverty, a senior family lawyer said yesterday. Baroness Deech said the growing numbers of families without fathers was doing more harm to the next generation than other factors such as smoking, alcohol, poor diet and lack of exercise. And she warned that a conspiracy of silence surrounded the issue because political leaders were afraid to say married families were better for children than cohabiting families or single parent families. Children of single mothers have greater problems than those of cohabitee parents, and children of cohabitees have greater problems than those of married parents. Without both a mother and a father children don’t get the whole package when they are growing up and don’t develop the whole gamut of emotions. Children deserve natural parents who are prepared to make the act of commitment and aspiration found only in marriage, in order to demonstrate to those children that they intend to be there for them, without question, as they grow up.
The wedding ceremony highlights the fact that marriage is the strongest bond ever invented to link together two people and two families, for now and posterity – intimately, legally, politically, religiously, civilly and publicly. God gave us instructions to follow so that we would live properly. Religion is pushed aside. It’s ok now to have children outside marriage. It’s ok to be homosexual. You don’t get punished properly for coming crime. It’s ok to sleep around and do what you want… Take God out of the equation and the world goes to rack and ruin. Just look at the world getting worse over the years. Oh, and before someone says religion causes war… Religion doesn’t cause wars. It’s mans own greed that twists religion to suit his need that causes war.
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