South Korean Commandos today saved the crew and ship that was taken hostage a week ago. Canada applauds the professionalism of these commandos from such a tiny country. Taking the bull by the proverbial horns tjey have saved 21 crew and a cargo ship. The Somali pirates are a modern day scourge of the seas. Canada is part of the group and takes their turn in patrolling these dangerous seas.
With regard to my previous blog and the Kirpan. I checked it out on wilkpedia and found this paragraph.
Historically, the kirpan was a defensive weapon, worn on a cloth belt called a Gatra. It was one of the five Kakars which displayed commitment to the Hukam of the tenth master[citation needed] and identified a Khalsa Sikh.
The kirpan is both a defensive weapon and a symbol. Physically it is an instrument of "ahimsa" or non-violence. The principle of ahimsa is to actively prevent violence, not to simply stand by idly whilst violence is being done. To that end, the kirpan is a tool to be used to prevent violence from being done to a defenseless person when all other means to do so have failed. Symbolically, the kirpan represents the power of truth to cut through untruth[citation needed].
Not all those who identify themselves as Sikhs carry or recommend carrying a kirpan usable as a weapon. Hardeep Singh Kohli, who identifies himself and most of the Sikhs he knows as secular Sikhs, criticised UK Sikh judge Sir Mota Singh QC for calling for Sikh schoolchildren to be allowed to carry the kirpan, saying "he thinks it's OK for kids to take knives to class. ... I'm simply not comfortable with knives being allowed into school. ...small, symbolic kirpans are attached to combs that Sikhs keep in their hair. Similarly, small kirpan-shaped pendants are worn around the neck, again fulfilling the criterion of the faith that the dagger be ever-present.[1] Other Sikhs consider that a kirpan must be viable as a weapon to fulfil religious criteria.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirpan
So the small version is allowed. that would seem to answer the issue. As for the MP who said he has carried the Kirpan to parliament since 2004 and that they are not considered dangerous. I point to the stabbing by a sikh man with his kirpan in Toronto 11 April 2010.
So to the do gooders who profess knowledge of all things religous please do your homework a weapon is a weapon a symbol may not be if it is small and worn, where it is visible.
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