E2194 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks December 8, 2006 1960s. In addition, he has been an active field, and the w’s appeared on every door at Tens of thousands of people are held as polit- member of the Monroeville Civitan Club, the the school. The local Touchdown Club—which ical prisoners, according to Amnesty Inter- Monroe County Cattleman’s Association and is not affiliated with the high school—fed the national. The Movement Against State Re- the Monroe County Conservation Club, to players and their families each Thursday night. pression reported that lndia acknowledged name just a few of the other groups that have Local businesses announced their support for holding 52,268 as political prisoners. benefited from his leadership. the Pioneers on the marquees outside res- Many of these have been in illegal detention Mr. Speaker, I have met few public servants taurants and hotels. In churches and stores, since 1984. as committed and dedicated to the well-being you could hear excited conversations about These political prisoners must be released of their community as Judge Otha Lee Biggs. the team’s success. at once and those who violate human rights His tenacity and work ethic are matched In the end, they did not capture the state must be brought to justice or we should stop only by his kindness and generosity. It goes championship, but they did achieve something all of our aid and trade with India. And we without saying but I am proud and deeply hon- of greater and more lasting importance: they should put the U.S. Congress on record in ored to have developed a strong friendship demonstrated the values of determination, support of freedom everywhere in South Asia with him, as did my predecessors, Congress- hard work, and courage in the face of adver- in the form of a plebiscite on the subject of man Jack Edwards and Sonny Callahan. sity. They showed that a past of limited suc- independence, under international supervision Monroe County and, indeed, all of south cess does not stand in the way of a bright fu- to ensure its fairness. Isn’t that the democratic Alabama have benefited greatly from his expe- ture. In proving that history does not have to way to do things? rience and wisdom. He is a true friend to be destiny, they provided a very real example While Professor Gurtej Singh’s article is too many people, and it is a pleasure for me to of the best of the American dream and they long to put in the RECORD, the Council of ask my colleagues to join me in praising lived at the heart of the American experience. Khalistan did an excellent press release on it. Judge Otha Lee Biggs for his accomplish- Their school and their community are the bet- Mr. Speaker, I would like to add that press re- ments and extending thanks for his many ef- ter for it. lease on the Dasam Granth fraud to the RECORD at this time for the information of my forts over the years on behalf of the citizens f of the First Congressional District and the colleagues. state of Alabama. PROFESSOR EXPOSES FAKE SIKH PROFESSOR GURTEJ SINGH EXPOSES DASAM SCRIPTURES, HINDU PLAN TO GRANTH FRAUD f DESTROY SIKH RELIGION WASHINGTON, DC, DECEMBER 7, 2006—Pro- WATAUGA HIGH SCHOOL fessor Gurtej Singh, a leading Sikh scholar, FOOTBALL TEAM Professor of , and an advisor to the HON. EDOLPHUS TOWNS International Journal of Sikh Affairs, has OF NEW YORK published an extensive article exposing how HON. VIRGINIA FOXX IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Hindu fundamentalists have promoted the Dasam Granth, which contains very little of OF NORTH CAROLINA Friday, December 8, 2006 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES the work of Gobind Singh, as his writ- Mr. TOWNS. Mr. Speaker, Professor Gurtej ing and as genuine Sikh scripture, parallel to Friday, December 8, 2006 Singh JAS is a Professor of Sikhism and a the . He exposes the fact Ms. FOXX. Mr. Speaker, today I want to pay very widely respected intellectual leader in the that ‘‘the Hindu plan to drag the Sikhs back to the Hindu fold’’ requires promoting the tribute to the Watauga High School football Sikh community. Recently, he wrote an article Dasam Granth and that this plan has re- team of 2006. The Pioneers of Watauga High exposing the Dasam Granth, which is alleged ceived the support of such allegedly Sikh School in Boone, North Carolina set out with by some Hindus to be a Sikh scripture. What leaders as former Punjab Chief Minister modest expectations and ended up just one apparently was done was to take a few of the Parkash Singh Badal and the high Sikh game away from the state championship for writings of , the last of the ‘‘high priests’’ led by Joginder 4A football. Along the way, they won 12 Sikh , and combine it with some sexually Singh Vedanti. Badal led the most corrupt games and lost 3, and they set an example of explicit material from a Hindu sect known as government in Punjab’s history, selling jobs for money, and regularly visits Hindu and character and perseverance that made a last- Shakat. The aim is to discredit Guru Gobind other anti-Sikh places of worship, according ing impression on their school and their com- Singh and bring the Sikhs into the Hindu fold, to Professor Gurtej Singh. munity. according to Professor Gurtej Singh. Professor Gurtej Singh writes that This team frequently came from behind in The authors of the Dasam Granth identify Jathedar Vedanti ‘‘was given the task of ac- the second half to win their games. Three themselves within the text, yet many insist that tually dragging the Sikh panth into the fold times in the playoffs for the state champion- the work was written by Guru Gobind Singh of .’’ He notes that Jathedar ship, they won by one point. By scores of 20– and should be equal to the Sikh holy scripture, Vedanti, like Mr. Badal, succumbed to the temptations of money. In order to carry out 19, 24–23, and 15–14, they advanced further the Guru Granth Sahib. this nefarious plan, Professor Gurtej Singh toward that championship than any team from Professor Gurtej Singh commented that a writes, Vedanti embraced the Dasam Granth Watauga County in 28 years. leader of the militant Hindu fascist operation as genuine Sikh scripture, claiming that it Watauga County, home to the Pioneers of known as the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh was written by Guru Gobind Singh and was Watauga High School, is a place that is used (RSS), which was formed in support of the to be treated as scripture and canon. The to taking pride in the academic quality of its Fascists, had commented that all the Sikh Dasam Granth includes vivid, lewd descrip- schools but that has not often enjoyed similar ‘‘high priests’’ including Takht Jathedar tions of sex acts and other pornographic and success in team sports. On the academic Joginder Singh Vedanti are on the RSS pay- obscene references that were added to Guru side, the Watauga County School system is roll. Thus, they are cooperating in this effort by Gobind Singh’s writing to make him look bad. one of just three school systems in the state the Brahmins to destroy the Sikh religion. Nice Professor Gurtej Singh notes that the au- where all schools made Adequate Yearly trick in a supposedly secular country! thors of the Dasam Granth identified them- Progress under No Child Left Behind last year. Also cooperating in this effort is former selves in the text. Yet the Hindus insist that At Watauga High School, students achieve Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, who led Guru Gobind Singh is the author and that proficiency levels that are better than over 92 the most corrupt government in the history of the book is Sikh scripture. According to Pro- percent of high schools in the state, and aver- Punjab. These are the kinds of people with fessor Gurtej Singh, it is a scripture of the age SAT scores are consistently well above whom the Brahins choose to ally themselves. Shakat sect, who are worshippers of the Hindu goddess , as it reflects their the state and national average. This kind of control over the leadership of mode of worship and their practices. ‘‘It has The football team, however, had not en- the Sikhs is one reason that they need their been a long standing Hindu desire to bring joyed a winning season in several years. They independence, to protect their identity and the Sikhs under the umbrella of the Shakat won just 4 games the previous season and their safety before the Indians wipe them out, sect,’’ he writes. ‘‘This involves getting them only 2 the year before that. Success on the as they seek to do. Over a quarter of a million to accept some of the rituals of that sect as football field had to be built from the ground Sikhs killed since 1984 proves that. In addi- modes of worship.’’ He goes on to write, ‘‘To level. And as the success of the team gained tion, the Indian regime has killed over 300,000 propagate the dasam granth as Sikh scrip- momentum in this special season, it brought a Christians in Nagaland, more than 90,000 ture at par with Guru Granth, has been the aim of a section of the Hindu zealots and a new spirit and energy to Watauga High School Muslims in Kashmir and 2,000 to 5,000 in Gu- section of the Media mostly controlled by and indeed to the whole community. jarat, as well as Christians and Muslims else- such Hindus,’’ At the school, art students and teachers cre- where in the country and Tamils, Manipuris, According to Professor Gurtej Singh, Mr. ated designs for giant ‘‘W’s’’ on the football Dalits, Bodos, Assamese, and other minorities. Sudarshan of the fascist, Hindu militant

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