by Doug Collins

Sikhs bash media

news event surprises me. ] know what to

He had been involved in a

I T ISN‘T OFTEN that television coverage of a applied untit his skull cracked.

expect — 30-second clips giving headlines
and captions. But the other night we got a bit more,

BCTV was covering a
meeting of which Sikhs were
complaining about the media.
it was all the fault of the
media, they said, that people
thought Sikhs were prone to
violence. Why, there was no
More peace-loving commmuni-
ty on the face of the earth.

That wasn’t what was s1i-
prising, of course. We are get-
ting used to up being down, in
being out, and freedom-of-
speech lovers braying for cen-
sorship. No, what was surpris-
ing was that the item was
followed with clips showing
how local Sikhs and other East
Indians have been doing their
best to work damage on-one
another's torsos with two-by-
fours, baseball bats, swords
and other instruments of
affection.

It was a real theatre of
brotherly love, India-style.
The kind of thing every
neighborhood will have if our
dolts of politicians continue
their present immigration
course.

The plain truth (from which
politicians. and press flee in
-flain terror), is that of all the

immigrant communities, the
Sikhs community is the most
violent.

Here are a few things that
have taken place in the fast
three years,

‘““When the
shooting stops
four people lie
seriously wounded
including

a policeman’’

March 18, 1982: two men
are shot and killed in a Toron-
to courtroom and a third
maimed. (The judge ducked
behind his bench or he might
have got it too.) Wanted by
police, but’ not found, is
Kuldip Singh Sara.

June 20, 1982: A Sikh

realtor in Vancouver is found
dead with a C-clamp around
his head. Pressure had been

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skirmish over the leadership of
a Sikh temple.

November 14, 1982: a
group of Sikhs favoring Pun-
jab independence
demonstrates outside the In-
dian consulate in Toronto. A
rival group of Sikhs appears.
When the shooting stops, four
people lie seriously wounded,
including a policeman. One
Sikh is later given three tife
terms and another 14 years for
shooting the policeman in the
head at point-blank range.

May 25, 1983: 30 Sikhs
fight in South Memorial Park,
Vancouver, with hockey
sticks, knives and machetes. A
man is taken to hospital with
a fractured skull.

June 5, 1984: Sikhs attack
the office of the Indian con-
sul general in Vancouver.
Glass doors are smashed and
furniture wrecked.

June 4, (984: a Sikh held in
Germany pending extradition
hearings is the founder of
Babar Khalsa, a notorious
Sikh terrorist group. He is a
Canadian citizen and used to
work in a sawmill in North
Burnaby,

July 20, 1984: ‘*Rifle-
wielding police’ cordon off a
two-block stretch of Fraser

. Street when two armed Sikhs

threaten a man with death for
having broadcast an interview
with the Sikh president of
India.

August 15, 1984: 300 Sikhs
break through a police cordon
and occupy the grounds of the
Indian consul's house in
British Properties.

August 20, 1984: 200 Sikhs
break up a gala dinner in
Montreal.

February 20, 1985: A Sikh
lawyer in Vancovuer is beaten
with an iron bar by his com-
patriots, ft takes 80 stitches to
put him together again.

There are $0 other ex-
amples. But our bleeding
hearts are not fazed. In
Toronto, the human rights
maniacs and loony churchmen
shed tears and say yes, the
media are to blame for pum-
ping up this stuff. Editorialists
wring their hands, No one sug-
gests that we stop importing
troublemakers,

Thirty-five years ago, old
Mackenzie King said he
wanted to preserve Canada's
existing population make-up.

Nothing that has happened
since has proved him wrong.

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