Sardar Jokes And Hindus' Rights To Free Speech

there is an SMS, which was being sent here in India. It says: -



Then, a Sardar Ji came forward. Now this SMS is doing miracle on mobile phones: -


I have both the SMSs saved in my mobile phone. .

Hello all,

I will give more though to what you have all written later today but I thought that for the time being I would mention that there is a very effective media watch type organization in the United States that could be used to create an international or an Indian organization.

Here is a link:

http://www.saldef.org

Regards to all,

Ravi Singh

SALDEF = Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund
SMART = Sikh Mediawatch and Resource Task Force

SALDEF is new name of SMART. In 1996, SMART began solely as an all-volunteer organization, with primary focus on media analysis and education. Later, based on the needs of the Sikh American community, SMART immediately began responding to civil rights, legislative, employment, and accommodation issues also.

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Dear Khalsa Ji,

The messaged sent at the address vir@mid-day.com are getting returned.

In the web site of Mid Day there is a place for feed back. I have pasted my e-mail in it with a request that it be passed on to this journalist.

I have sent the e-mail to Hindustan Times at the address of their Head Office. It is salil@hindustantimes.com.

This way I have forced my messages on these two papers. The messages have reached.

I agree to Aman Ji's suggestion that a media watch should be established.

With love and respect for all.

Amarpal Singh

Yes Sure !! Please outline the conents of the appeal and we are on our way !!

Regards

Dear Khalsa (FireStrom) Ji,Today I have again sent my e-mail to Hindustan Time at their address marking it in the subject 'For the attention of Vir Sanghvi' the e-mail address is feedback@hindustantimes.com

With love and respect for all.

Amarpal Singh

Fateh to all,

SMART dealt with a similar issue with this letter:
http://www.sikhmediawatch.org/mediaw....asp?mediaid=1
I'm not sure what the results were.

I think in order to be timely we should start an online petition to show that there are a significant number of people that find the jokes, etc. offensive.
Free online petitions can be started here:
http://www.petitiononline.com/petition.html

We could include in this petition a statement that we would like to start an interenational Sikh Media Watch type organization and circulate it widely. Perhaps we will get a few interested people with the skills and inclination to start such an organization.

Would anyone be interested in writing something up for this petition?

Regards,

Ravi Singh

Yes Sir !! I think we already have the needed ingrediants in this thread itself (posts of Amarpal Ji and Firestorm) and the idea of signing petition online is really good one. Perhaps, we can do it on behalf of SPN as a representative body. What do you think ?

It may not produce immediate results but may result in wider awareness of the issue amongst the Sikh masses and others alike, worldwide.

I think we should go for it, as soon as possible.

I got an email from the editor and he promised he would send my feedback to Veer Sanghvi.

However I havent heard from them since I sent the email.

I think that we should not go in for a petition at this point in time.

I think a step by step course of action should be as follows:

1. Rather on SPN itself a separate section titled Media watch should be made. The purpose of this section would be to report all incidents of misleading potrayal of the Sikh image.

The moderators can work with the members to sift through incidents, to have a concise list of incidents which amount to wrong potrayal of the Sikh image.

In this we will have ready database of all such character potrayals and this will pave the way for a stronger petitiononline, which can make in due course of time.

2. The next step should be to wrote to individuals and organisations and let our feelings known in a civilised manner in a meaningful manner. The emails/letters to be sent should be written and discussed in the forum before being sent.

3. on a parellel front we should be in touch with Saldef or similar organisations to leverage upon their knowledge base.

4. Political parties or affliation should be COMPLETELY AVOIDED, AS THIS WILL ONLY LEAD TO CONTROVERSIES RATHER THAN SOLUTION. Anyway if they were interested they would have done something about this long ago.

Awaiting further feedbacks.

We already have a section called "Sikh Spectrum" which contains some case similar cases... Should we change this sections name to Sikh Media Watch ? Just a suggestion.

Agreed.

Agreed. Can we have a list/pointer of individuals/organisations that we can approach directly in this regard.

Agreed.

Absolutely, no politicts involved with SPN. 100% Agreed.