Adminji
I have a slightly different take, although I respect your view and consider it sound and sane.
Porn is becoming quite mainstream these days, certain lifestyles are becoming more mainstream, it is of course unfortunate that these events have accelerated at the very time that my own life has become more focused on animals, intimacy, love, romance.
I think a seperate thread about the dangers of porn and its associated lifestyle would be a good one, but for the moment, the Nihang....
Personally speaking, if the page concerned had a glowing tribute to the Nihang as a model man, surrounded by a few images, that would not have been a huge deal to me, given the world we live in, a page full of heterosexual imagery, guns, women, cars, nihangs, I could have lived with that, its hardly positive imagery, but a part of me would have been happy that nihangs are accepted and lauded as fantasy male role models, in essence, you would not see a Islamic warrior lauded in the same way, but there is a certain, 'but them Sikhs, they are ok' mentality that I would have found refreshing.
However, the article is not a positive awe written article, I found it mocking and tongue in cheek. It was not written lauding the warrior aspect, in fact it was not written for any other reason other that the Nihang in question had a massive turban. I consider myself quite liberal, but I found it insulting.
And now the images, the images, in this instance are the icing on the cake, they reinforce the 'us and them' mentality, they wear huge silly turbans that make them look like chupa chups, we have sexy beautiful women, come see!
Sikhs should not be treated like some sort of freak show to be paraded next to such imagery, this is not a positive article, its someone laughing at us.
Instead of an apology, I would like to see a few pages, without imagery, devoted to a positive description of the Nihangs and Nihang practices, as it stands, the only education here is that Nihangs wear silly big blue turbans.
