AMRIT SANCHAR to be held at Guru Nanak Gurdwara in AMSTERDAM, NL

AMRIT SANCHAR to be held at Guru Nanak Gurdwara in AMSTERDAM, NL

DATE : Sunday 7th of April 2013

Time : 07.00 hours

Addr :

Shri Guru Nanak Gurdwara Sahib 

Schakelstraat 21

1014 AW Amsterdam

Contact : 020-6840776

 

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long
United Truth Seekers
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32 CDT

http://www.sott.net/article/234783-The-Truth-About-Hair-and-Why-Indians-Would-Keep-Their-Hair-Long

 

This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor's Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy, they could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they couldn't 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a Typical Test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed 'enemy' approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his 'sixth sense' and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and 'kills' him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long."

Comment:

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion:
In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson's hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

Reported by C. Youn

 

BE: Sint-Truiden biedt Sikh-ouders tweetalig voorleesboekje aan

http://www.limburg-actueel.be/index.php?job=lve&id=4810

Sint-Truiden biedt Sikh-ouders tweetalig voorleesboekje aan

DOOR DORIEN BOLLEN - 21 FEBRUARI 2013 - 3800 - ACTUEEL

Sikh-ouders die hun kinderen inschrijven in het kleuteronderwijs van Sint-Truiden, kunnen voortaan een gratis tweetalig voorleesboekje aanvragen. Daarmee wil het stadsbestuur de taalontwikkeling stimuleren.

'De eerste schooldag van Milan' wordt al enkele jaren uitgegeven in de Nederlandstalige versie. Nu een tweetalig boekje wordt uitgebracht, krijgt de Sikh-gemeenschap de kans om zich beter te kunnen aansluiten bij de Truiense samenleving. "Voorlezen is ontzettend belangrijk voor de taalontwikkeling", zegt schepen van Onderwijs Hilde Vautmans. "Ook voor de algemene schoolvoorbereiding. Met dit boekje stimuleren we de ouders al. Maar omdat Sikhs het Nederlands vaak niet voldoende onder de knie hebben, werd Milan al eens aan de kant geschoven."

Ouders kunnen nu zelf beslissen of ze in het Nederlands of in het Punjabi voorlezen. "Bovendien kunnen ze gemakkelijk de vertaling opzoeken, want de twee teksten staan naast elkaar gedrukt", vertelt burgemeester Veerle Heeren. 

Primeur
Het project is een samenwerking tussen de stad Sint-Truiden, het Internationaal Comité, Kind & Gezin, de lokale integratiedienst, het Minderhedenforum en de Opvoedingswinkel Haspengouw. De Sikhgemeenschap is de eerste allochtone gemeenschap van Sint-Truiden die voor dit project met de eer gaat lopen. Mogelijk wordt de actie in de toekomst verder uitgebreid naar andere bevolkingsgroepen.

Sikhs Win and Exercise Right to Wear 
Kirpan in European Parliament

By: Sikh Federation (UK)

Brussels, BELGIUM (January 30, 2013)–The Sikh Federation (UK) started to organize  the mass lobbying of MEPs by visiting them at the European Parliament in Brussels around eight years ago.  

Around 250 Sikhs from across Europe attended the first ever lobby and after initially agreeing to allow Amritdhari Sikhs to wear the Kirpan when entering the main European Parliament building this decision was reversed on the morning of the first lobby. 

UK MEPs informed Sikhs taking part in the lobby this restriction was as a direct result of pressure on the Secretary General responsible for administration from the Indian Ambassador based in the European Parliament by suggesting a ban on the Kirpan was appropriate.

The Indian authorities did not want Sikhs lobbying about human rights abuses in India e.g. the case of Professor Davinderpal Singh Bhullar, or issues related to the Sikh identity and were prepared to go to extreme lengths to try and stop Sikhs lobbying by asking for the Kirpan to be banned.

Given the opposition from India the Sikh Federation (UK) encouraged Sikhs to take a stand by organizing an annual lobby at the European Parliament in Brussels.  Initially the Sikh Federation (UK) organised venues adjacent to the Parliament building so MEPs were encouraged to meet Sikhs from across Europe.  However, in addition smaller groups of Sikhs, including Amritdharis wearing the Kirpan, successfully entered the European Parliament following pressure from MEPs setting a precedent that this was possible.

UK MEPs continued to exert pressure and this resulted in a large conference room holding around 300 being made available each year in the Eastman Building of the European Parliament complex where Sikhs were allowed to wear the Kirpan. However, very few MEPs other than those from the UK were prepared to leave the main European Parliament building to speak in the inconveniently located Eastman Building.

The issue remained that large numbers of Amritdhari Sikhs could not freely enter the main European Parliament building to meet MEPs for pre-arranged meetings so Sikhs have been protesting each year.  One year Sikh men, women and children protested with MEPs by holding a peaceful sit down protest blocking two of the three entrances to the main European Parliament building.  This attracted considerable media attention and highlighted the issue and created pressure for change.  

In recent years the Sikh Federation (UK) has not been arranging large lobbies, but instead sending Sikhs to speak at events or meet MEPs as necessary.  This was also in part as Sikhs in many mainland European countries have been unable to establish the sorts of links Sikhs have had with UK MEPs.

However, in the last 12 months the Sikh Federation (UK) has been establishing its own network across Europe and setting up sister organizations to get Sikhs more active in engaging with politicians.  The two-day lobby organized by the Sikh Federation (UK) at the start of this week was therefore the first test of the working of this set up. 

The Sikh Federation (UK) appealed to its contacts in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium etc. to keep numbers to around five representatives from each country.  This was deliberate as the Federation wanted a much more focused lobby with around a dozen meetings over the two days and to test whether Sikhs could exercise the right to enter the European Parliament (and European Commission) in relatively large numbers while wearing their Kirpans.

The Sikh Federation (UK) is delighted to announce that Sikhs having taken a robust stand on the wearing of the Kirpan when entering the European Parliament and European Commission buildings have in effect had the restriction on the Kirpan removed for pre-arranged meetings when it is known who will be in attendance.  Behind the scenes work involving MEPs, especially in the last 12 months with those responsible for security, meant that all turban wearing Sikhs – Amritdhari or not were fully respected and had all security waived when entering the European Parliament and at the two European Commission meetings

EU : Airport security screening for turban

COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 104/2013

of 4 February 2013

amending Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 as regards the screening of passengers and persons other than passengers by Explosive Trace Detection (ETD) equipment in combination with Hand Held Metal Detection (HHMD) equipment

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2008 on common rules in the field of civil aviation security and repealing Regulation (EC) No 2320/2002 ( 1 ), and in particular Article 4(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 272/2009 of 2 April 2009 supplementing the common basic standards on civil aviation security laid down in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council ( 2 ) provides that the implementing rules to be adopted pursuant to Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008 may allow the use of explosive trace detection (ETD) equipment and hand held metal detection (HHMD) equipment for screening of persons (passengers and persons other than passengers).

(2) Experience has shown that hand searches of passengers and persons other than passengers are not always the most efficient means of screening certain parts of the person, in particular where those parts are not readily accessible such as certain headgear, plaster casts or prosthesis.

(3) Trials have demonstrated the effectiveness of the combined use of ETD and HHMD in such cases. Moreover, the use of ETD and HHMD may facilitate the screening process and be experienced to be a less intrusive means of screening than a hand search, thus constituting an improvement in the experience of persons screened.

(4) It is thus useful and justified to allow these methods for screening of those parts of the person where a hand search is considered inefficient and/or undesirable such as certain headgear, plaster casts or prosthesis.

(5) This Regulation respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, notably the human dignity, the freedom of religion, the non- discrimination, the rights of persons with disabilities, and the right to liberty and security. In so far as it limits those rights and principles, such limitation is made genuinely to meet 

objectives of general interest and the need to protect the rights and freedoms of others, respecting the conditions laid down in Article 52 of the Charter. This Regulation must be applied in accordance with those rights and principles.

(6) Commission Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 ( 3 ) should therefore be amended accordingly.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Civil Aviation Security set up by Article 19(1) of Regulation (EC) No 300/2008,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Regulation (EU) No 185/2010 is amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 4 February 2013.

For the Commission

The President

José Manuel BARROSOEN

Katholiek onderwijs en scholierenkoepel willen geen hoofddoekenverbod

zaterdag 02 februari 2013 om 12u13

http://www.knack.be/nieuws/belgie/katholiek-onderwijs-en-scholierenkoepel-willen-geen-hoofddoekenverbod/article-4000242533333.htm

In 2009 kondigden twee Antwerpse athenea een verbod op het dragen van hoofddoeken aan. Het GO! kondigde daarop een algemeen verbod op het dragen van levensbeschouwelijke tekens af, maar wachtte met de invoering op de uitkomst van alle rechtsprocedures. Dit weekend raakte bekend dat de vier gedingen bij de Raad van State onontvankelijk verklaard werden.

Het VSKO blijft bij het standpunt uit 2009. "We vinden dat elk schoolbestuur autonoom moet beslissen, in samenspraak met de ouders", zegt woordvoerder Willy Bombeek. Het VSKO verwijst ook terug naar een opiniebijdrage van directeur-generaal Mieke Van Hecke uit 2009. "Vrije katholieke scholen zijn open scholen. De deuren van onze scholen gaan niet dicht als er andere dan 'katholieke leerlingen' aankloppen", zegt ze. De katholieke scholen respecteren de religieuze en levensbeschouwelijke identiteit van leerlingen en vragen aan ouders en leerlingen respect voor het christelijk pedagogisch project.

Einde van de keuzevrijheid
Ook de Vlaamse Scholierenkoepel (VSK) vindt een algemeen verbod op het dragen van levensbeschouwelijke tekenen geen goed idee. Dat betekent het einde van de keuzevrijheid in de schoolloopbaan voor sommige moslimmeisjes en sikhjongens, klinkt het in een mededeling.

De VSK vraagt zich af op welke manier religieuze kenmerken de lessen verstoren. "Het verbod toont geen respect voor de situatie van een school én houdt geen rekening met de echte problematiek", klinkt het. De school moet voor de VSK "een plek zijn waar leerlingen de kans krijgen om zichzelf te zijn en op zoek te gaan naar hun identiteit".

Een algemeen verbod beëindigt volgens de scholierenkoepel ook de vrijheid in de schoolkeuze voor leerlingen die dergelijke religieuze tekenen dragen. "Dit gaat in tegen het Gelijke Onderwijskansendecreet, dat streeft naar de optimale leer- en ontwikkelingskansen voor alle leerlingen." (Belga/MI)

Meer dan drie jaar voor juridische slag

• maandag 04 februari 2013, 03u00

http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=DMF20130203_00456310

• Auteur:INT

Het verbod op het dragen van levensbeschouwelijke kentekens in het GO! kent een woelige juridische geschiedenis.

In juni 2009 kondigden de athenea van Antwerpen en Hoboken hun verbod aan.

De Raad van State oordeelde daarop dat de scholen zo'n verbod niet op eigen houtje konden opleggen.

In september 2009 besliste de Raad van het GO! een algemeen verbod in te voeren, voor alle gemeenschapsscholen.

Een Antwerpse leerlinge stapte naar de Raad van State. Zij moest naar een school in Lier uitwijken omdat ze daar haar hoofddoek wel mocht ophouden. Drie andere leerlingen, van wie twee Sikhs, deden hetzelfde

In maart 2010 schorste de Raad van State dat algemene verbod.

In het arrest vroeg de RvS zich af of het GO! over dergelijke materie wel zelf mocht beslissen en of het niet veeleer het Vlaams Parlement toekwam. Daarop kwam er een procedure bij het Grondwettelijk Hof.

Het Hof oordeelde in maart 2011 dat het GO! wel degelijk bevoegd was.

In september 2011 hief de Raad van State de schorsing op. Het GO! besloot een algemene regeling te herbekijken, in afwachting konden scholen die al een verbod hadden dat behouden.

In juli 2012 oordeelde de Raad van State dat de klacht onontvankelijk was. De betrokken leerlingen waren afgestudeerd, waardoor de maatregel niet meer op hen van toepassing was. De leerlingen ondervonden geen nadeel meer.

Hoofddoek vanaf september weer verboden op school

http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1265/Onderwijs/article/detail/1572643/2013/02/02/Hoofddoek-vanaf-september-weer-verboden-op-school.dhtml

Meer dan drie jaar na het eerste, omstreden besluit herbevestigt de Raad voor het gemeenschapsonderwijs (GO! ) het algemene verbod op het dragen van levensbeschouwelijke kentekens. Dat melden de Coreliokranten vandaag.

Het algemene verbod op het dragen van levensbeschouwelijke tekens (zoals een hoofddoek, maar ook een keppel of een tulband) in de scholen van het GO! , het onderwijs van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, is vanaf volgend schooljaar opnieuw van kracht. Dat heeft de Raad van het GO! gisteren beslist. Er komt een rondzendbrief om de maatregel aan alle besturen en directies van de scholen uit te leggen.

Onontvankelijke gedingen
Het verbod geldt voor leerlingen, leerkrachten en personeel. De enige uitzondering vormen de godsdienstles en activiteiten die met de godsdienstles verband houden.

Het GO! heeft de uitkomst van alle rechtsprocedures tegen de beslissing van 2009 afgewacht vooraleer tot deze stap over te gaan. Er liepen vier gedingen bij de Raad van State. Twee vanwege sikhs die een tulband wilden blijven dragen en twee van moslimmeisjes over de hoofddoek. De Raad heeft ze allemaal als onontvankelijk afgewezen.

Turban Koppelverkoop – Boys “House” Turban # 1 (Keski)

Turban Koppelverkoop – Boys "House" Turban # 1 (Keski)

January 26th, 2013

http://www.raymondware.nl/turban-koppelverkoop-boys-house-turban-1-keski.html

*sikhnet* *ratemyturban* Dit is een snelle ongedwongen tulband die u zou kunnen binden als u rond het huis of ga wat sporten. Algemeen wordt gedragen door kinderen, of als een onder tulband een van bovengenoemde "full" tulbanden. Het doek is ongeveer 1,5 tot 2 meter. De lengte is afhankelijk van als je een wrap around, of een paar. U kunt de grootte van uw voorkeur. De moeilijkheid met het knopen van een Damala is meestal in het krijgen van de vorm rechts. Het kan een goede 5 tot 10 pogingen van koppelverkoop om de juiste vorm te krijgen. Deze pagina heeft een verzameling van video's die zijn bedoeld om mensen te helpen bij het leren hoe je een tulband binden, of om een ​​andere stijl van tulband te leren. De tulbanden hier vermelde zijn die over het algemeen gedragen door mensen van het Sikh geloof. Er zijn nogal wat verschillende variaties en tulband stijlen die Sikhs dragen. Deze video's zijn slechts enkele van de vele variaties. We hopen dat deze video's zijn nuttig voor je.

Belgian Hema store wrong to sack headscarf-wearing worker

Belgian Hema store wrong to sack headscarf-wearing worker

Wednesday 02 January 2013

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/01/belgian_hema_store_wrong_to_sa.php

A Belgian branch of Dutch department store Hema was wrong to sack a woman worker for wearing a headscarf, a Belgian industrial tribunal ruled on Wednesday.

The woman had worked for the store in Genk for two months wearing a headscarf but was then sacked for refusing to remove it after complaints from customers.

The tribunal ordered Hema to pay the 21-year-old woman six month's salary - €9,000 – in compensation.

The company has since drawn up formal clothing requirements for its Belgian stores, news agency ANP said.