Sikh girl may convert for place at UK school

Johal · Aug 21, 2007

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Sikh girl may convert for place at UK school

Posted online: Monday, August 20, 2007 at 1630 hours IST

London, August 20: A Sikh couple in Britain is considering to convert their four-year-old daughter to Roman Catholicism so that she can attend their favoured school in September, a leading daily reported here on Monday. <?xml

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Maya Kaur has been attending a nursery at St Paul's Roman Catholic School at Wolviston in northeast Britain for the past two years. <O

But, after her parents were recently told that there's no place available for her when she starts full-time education next month, they're "seriously" planning to change their daughter's religion. "We think Sikhism is similar to Roman Catholicism so we put her in that school. She's been there for two years, she goes to church with them, she says a prayer before she eats her dinner. <O

"I'll baptise her as Roman Catholic so she can go to the school." the 'Daily Mail' quoted the girl's father Bal Singh as saying. <O

According to the school's admissions policy, children -- who have been baptised Roman Catholic, formally received into the Catholic Church and live in the catchment area, or who have a sibling at the school -- will get priority. <O

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Though the proposed conversion might be frowned upon within the Sikh religion, Singh and his wife Baljit insisted that they were doing nothing wrong in trying to get the best for their daughter. <O

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"Two years ago when they took her into the nursery why didn't they say she wouldn't get a place straight away in the primary school? I would have got her baptised then or I'd have put her in another school," Singh was quoted as saying.
However, Maya has been offered a place at William Cassidi School, a nearby Church of England school. But her parents claimed that she's upset and "wants to remain with her friends".

Source: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=91100#compstory

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kudi_patole_wargi · Aug 21, 2007

dunnoe wut to say....lol

pps309 · Aug 21, 2007

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Sikh girl may convert for place at UK school

Posted online: Monday, August 20, 2007 at 1630 hours IST

London, August 20: A Sikh couple in Britain is considering to convert their four-year-old daughter to Roman Catholicism so that she can attend their favoured school in September, a leading daily reported here on Monday. <?xml
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Maya Kaur has been attending a nursery at St Paul's Roman Catholic School at Wolviston in northeast Britain for the past two years. <OBut, after her parents were recently told that there's no place available for her when she starts full-time education next month, they're "seriously" planning to change their daughter's religion. "We think Sikhism is similar to Roman Catholicism so we put her in that school. She's been there for two years, she goes to church with them, she says a prayer before she eats her dinner. <O
"I'll baptise her as Roman Catholic so she can go to the school." the 'Daily Mail' quoted the girl's father Bal Singh as saying. <O
According to the school's admissions policy, children -- who have been baptised Roman Catholic, formally received into the Catholic Church and live in the catchment area, or who have a sibling at the school -- will get priority. <O</O
Though the proposed conversion might be frowned upon within the Sikh religion, Singh and his wife Baljit insisted that they were doing nothing wrong in trying to get the best for their daughter. <O</O
"Two years ago when they took her into the nursery why didn't they say she wouldn't get a place straight away in the primary school? I would have got her baptised then or I'd have put her in another school," Singh was quoted as saying.
However, Maya has been offered a place at William Cassidi School, a nearby Church of England school. But her parents claimed that she's upset and "wants to remain with her friends".
i would like to say one thing...."Turya aap kolo nahi jaanda te fitte muh godya de."

Source: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=91100#compstory

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Jo v karna tusi kar lo...tusi kudi nu christian banouna bana lo.....par ghato ghat don't give lame excuse ke Sikhism is similar to Roman Catholicism.
If you look like that every religion is similar. They want their daughter to get converted just do it, why the hell they start comparing sikhism and roman catholicism.

I do not know why sikh religion should be upset on this conversion, Sikh is by choice not by birth or religion.

Kav · Aug 22, 2007

Sikhi khandiyon tikhi

When we are in the foreign land, we have a bigger role to play and create more awareness about sikhi instead of submitting ourselves to the situations. I can recall two incidents at the moment which I would like to quote.
One...

Canada apologises in kids' turbans case
19 Aug 2007, 0431 hrs IST

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" height="460" width="507"> <tbody> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> TORONTO: Authorities in Canada will issue an apology and travel documents to three Sikh children whose passport applications were rejected because they were wearing religious headgear, an official said on Saturday.

Passport Canada will also offer remedial training to passport staff to ensure a similar incident doesn’t happen in the future, spokesman Fabien Lengelle was quoted as saying. Lakhwinder Kaur Sidhu had mailed passport applications to Ottawa for herself and her husband along with their three children, Gurleen Kaur, 9, Ravneet Kaur, 7, and Gurmant Singh, 4, on May 15. All five had included photos in which they were wearing their religious headgear.

Although Sidhu and her husband, Hardip, got their passports last week, the children's applications were denied because their photos did not meet the specifications, the department said, as the wearing of a “head covering is unacceptable”.

The incident prompted The World Sikh Organization to write to foreign affairs ministry asking that the “misunderstanding on the part of the local official” be corrected. “It is resolved,” Lengelle was quoted as saying by the Vancouver Sun. “As soon as we became aware of the issue, we called the parents and offered corrective measures.”

Sidhu’s son was wearing a ‘patka’, while the girls were wearing head scarves. Sidhu said her husband was wearing a turban, while she was wearing a chunni. WSO spokesman Jasbeer Singh said the wearing of religious headgear by Sikhs is protected by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and it is unacceptable for the passports to be rejected on those grounds.

</td></tr></tbody></table>Second incident that happened in France in 2005-06 where a sikh was denied driver's license as he refused to remove his turban to get photographed for the license. Later on he fought till the end and got his driver's license with turbaned photograph.

So the point I am making is again Sikhi khandiyon tikhi

Bahut Mushkal hai Sikhi Nibhauna. Par je main aapni maa di ijjat nahin karoonga te guwandiyaan ton ki umeed rakhunga? And because of these Sikhs (kudos to them) who take a firm stand in the community we create more awareness for Sikh Kaum and our principles. And then when the unfortunate incidents like 9/11 happens, community knows the difference between Sikhs & other other turban wearing communities & our brothers and sisters can be spared for the unfair hate attacks in the foreign lands.

Konvicted_Jatt · Aug 22, 2007

22g sach hee keha kise ne SIKHI nibhauni saukhi nhi.......
parmatma ehna nu sadh-budhi bakshe.......

smilly · Aug 22, 2007

Tusi sahi keh rahe ho veer ghato ghat don't give lame excuse ke Sikhism is similar to Roman Catholicism.

Waheguru Eho jaheyaan nu sidhi bhudi bakshe....
Sikhi taan bandeyaan to aap ni nibhayi jandi te excuse dende ne.. tarah tarah de.... Oh vi mere sikh veer ne jo videshaan vich reh ke vi sikhi da maan ucha karde ne... Atleast Unhaan to hi kuch sikhana chahida da eho jehe lokaan nu ......

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