06-05-2007, 08:57 AM
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Punjab Feud
By UMENDRA SINGH, SPECIAL TO 24 HOURS
<b>A joint meeting of Sikh and Hindu leaders Sunday condemned a local newspaper for publishing an article calling for the destruction of a 16th century Hindu temple in Punjab. </b>
The president of the Vedic Hindu Cultural Society, Amrit Lal Arora, said the article in a Punjabi-language newspaper based in Surrey could incite religious hatred.
<b>A spokesman for the Society, Vinay Sharma, said the article stated that the Durgiana Hindu temple in Amritsar, Punjab, should be destroyed because it was copy of the Harminder Sahib, the holiest Sikh shrine in Golden Temple in Amritsar as well. </b>
Over the last two weeks, there was been violence in Punjab after a sect leader tried to imitate the last Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singhji.
"We would like all religious organizations to unite and condemn this kind of hate propaganda," Sharma said.
A local Sikh leader, Giani Harkirat Singh, called on the federal government to bring in laws to prosecute publishers and writers who propgate this kind of hate against one religion or another.
A Hindu-Sikh Unity Committee was formed to take action against the newspaper and file an official complaint with the RCMP for inciting religious hatred.
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Punjab Feud
By UMENDRA SINGH, SPECIAL TO 24 HOURS
<b>A joint meeting of Sikh and Hindu leaders Sunday condemned a local newspaper for publishing an article calling for the destruction of a 16th century Hindu temple in Punjab. </b>
The president of the Vedic Hindu Cultural Society, Amrit Lal Arora, said the article in a Punjabi-language newspaper based in Surrey could incite religious hatred.
<b>A spokesman for the Society, Vinay Sharma, said the article stated that the Durgiana Hindu temple in Amritsar, Punjab, should be destroyed because it was copy of the Harminder Sahib, the holiest Sikh shrine in Golden Temple in Amritsar as well. </b>
Over the last two weeks, there was been violence in Punjab after a sect leader tried to imitate the last Guru of Sikhs, Guru Gobind Singhji.
"We would like all religious organizations to unite and condemn this kind of hate propaganda," Sharma said.
A local Sikh leader, Giani Harkirat Singh, called on the federal government to bring in laws to prosecute publishers and writers who propgate this kind of hate against one religion or another.
A Hindu-Sikh Unity Committee was formed to take action against the newspaper and file an official complaint with the RCMP for inciting religious hatred.
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