If only because of their history of indomitable resistance to Islam, I like the Sikhs. But the California Sikhs seem to have caught the California disease of wanting to stop religious messages that deviate from the merely feelgood:
"A Contra Costa Sikh leader is denouncing a pamphlet from an El Sobrante church that tells Sikhs their holy book is wrong and warns them they face eternal hell unless they receive Jesus as their savior...
J.P. Singh, president of El Sobrante Gurdwara Sahib, the Sikh Center of the San Francisco Bay Area, said the pamphlet is objectionable because "it belittles another religion." "To coexist in this country in love and peace, I think there has to be an acceptance of other people's religions," Singh said...
Brandenburg said he has distributed the pamphlet off and on for eight or 10 years and that the message it conveys is hardly new. He said he was surprised to receive an e-mail from a local non-Sikh merchant characterizing it as "hate speech." "That message has been around for 2,000 years -- now it's hate speech?" Brandenburg said.
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