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Title: Kirpan is not a weapon: Ignatieff
Category: Political
Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-01-20 18:49:17
Canadian

[Trautsla]

what a fool

[CommanderSock]

If Sikhs can run around with daggers why can't Rastas carry bags of weed and smoke it openly.

[Brenda]

But a bottle of water is still a bomb threat.

[jeff744]

CommanderSock CommanderSock:

If Sikhs can run around with daggers why can't Rastas carry bags of weed and smoke it openly.

Ask Mr. Harper, he's the one pushing it back to being considered the same threat as cocaine.

[GreenTiger]

It looks like he is pandering to a Religious Multicultural group for votes. It might work.

[Gunnair]

GreenTiger GreenTiger:

It looks like he is pandering to a Religious Multicultural group for votes. It might work.

It's a ceremonial dagger, like a sgian dubh. No more a weapon really than a Gerber multi-tool.

Way to hop on the bandwagon though.

[raydan]

A kitchen knife is not a weapon either, it's a utensile.

[Gunnair]

Yeah, that's a great comparison.

[GreenTiger]

raydan raydan:

A kitchen knife is not a weapon either, it's a utensile.

There aren't many folks wanting to carry a kitchen knife into Parliament though.

[desertdude]

Not all Sikhs wear the Kirpan, only the very religious ones, we have many Sikhs here and I have yet to see one wearing it. And by the "hukum" with literally means order or comandment given by their 10th guru it is a defensive weapon more symbolic than anything else and literally a instrument of non violence according to the comandment.

So any Sikh religious enough to be wearing it believes it to be the instrument of non violence.

[raydan]

Just saying... a kirpan is still a weapon.
Now, if they carry the small decorative one that can be used, no problem.

[Brenda]

desertdude desertdude:

Not all Sikhs wear the Kirpan, only the very religious ones, we have many Sikhs here and I have yet to see one wearing it. And by the "hukum" with literally means order or comandment given by their 10th guru it is a defensive weapon more symbolic than anything else and literally a instrument of non violence according to the comandment.

So any Sikh religious enough to be wearing it believes it to be the instrument of non violence.

I don't think that is the point tho. THEY can think it is an instrument of non violence. I think the same about my bottle of water. Yet, I am not allowed to bring it on a plane.

That, and why would we make an exception for "the very religious ones"? If I can't bring my Swiss army knife...

Then, "it is not a weapon, it is a religious symbol" is all nice and dandy, but you can still hurt someone badly with it.

[Proculation]

[Gunnair]

raydan raydan:

Just saying... a kirpan is still a weapon.
Now, if they carry the small decorative one that can be used, no problem.

That's what they were carrying.