Sikhs Allowed To Carry Kirpan (knives) To Olympic Events
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Clubs you over the head with my Mum's 20 pound Bible.
Why carry a kirpan when they can carry Anna's Mum's bible?
I betcha that's how wars are started. lol I mentioned thumping Kreskin on the head with my Mum's Bible, which he knows I would never do, and he says my Mum is violent.
I suppose so. She's also a serious Bible-thumper. You should have seen her turn color when I said gods weren't relevant.
Anyway, ban it all or ban nothing is my advice.
Actually gerry, I take very little you say on forum personally - but when you make sweeping comments about the general 'stance' on a discussion and I'm one with that stance, it then follows that you're including me in those comments.
Regardless, for some reason I've gotten way over invested in this issue - and it's certainly not worth it to me to rough up a friendship. I'll agree to disagree and leave it at that.
Regardless, for some reason I've gotten way over invested in this issue - and it's certainly not worth it to me to rough up a friendship. I'll agree to disagree and leave it at that.
How many people could they nail with a single shot bolt action rifle in .22 caliber rigged for target before they get nailed themselves? lmao
I don't think Sikhs are much of a danger, but these are games, not religious proceedings. Drop the religion at the gate and get on with the games.
Has anybody actually *seen* a kirpan? They're purely symbolic and ceremonial, not even as dangerous as the jackknife I carry in my right front pocket with my keys pretty much all the time, a good ol' Swiss Army knife. Never know when you might need a blade, or a bottle opener, or a can opener, or a toothpick, or a screwdriver... A kirpan can't do any of those things, I doubt you could even cut up an orange with one, they're functionally useless, about as dangerous as wearing a crucifix.
Good point. I think perhaps people are confusing kirpans with the Indonesian keris, although some of those kirpans are more like swords than knives and even if dull could quite easily be used to batter someone to death.
In any case, I think you could probably fetch your SA knife out and have it ready before a Sikh could dig his kirpan out.
Or maybe the Gurkha kukri knives, which are excellent and dangerous weapons in the right hands.
That could be, too.
keris;
kukri;
kirpan (that's an eating utensil beside it);
That may have been how it originated, but my understanding is that now it is integral part of Sikh religion, a devout Sikh is required to carry it at all times, along with other 4 ‘k’s (beard, hair, turban, bracelet and kirpan).
So kirpan is not like veil for Muslim women. A veil is more a tradition, rather than a religious requirement (there is why it varies so much form country to country). Kirpan is religion, not a tradition.