Saturday, August 10, 2013

White by Birth, Sikh by Choice!

Sword-carrying Sikhs roaming the Indian cities are a normal sight; but white people wearing turbans definitely are not. The strangeness lies in the fact that they are non-Indians who converted to Sikhism.
Below are some photos and videos of non-Indian Sikhs:

 Sardar Martin (Jarnail) Singh
Martin Singh, son of Eric and Shirley Hill, was raised on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia. Martin Singh’s mother’s side of the family has been living on the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia for the last 200 years. Martin was interested in both politics and religion while growing up. He is now quite active in the New Democratic Party. 
Read more: http://www.unp.me/f15/maritime-sikh-society-1415/#ixzz2bbu74HOS

 Cornelis Harjinder Singh Heule: Man in Blue
Cornelis Harjinder Singh Heule was born in 1947 in Roermond in the Netherlands as Cornelis Heule. He is known as Harjinder Singh, names given to him when he became an initiated Sikh in 1996. 

Check out these two videos (there are a lot more!) on YouTube:



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