ONCE again I am disappointed that no one from the Sri Guru Singh Sabha Gurdwara, nor Balwinder Singh Rana, has chosen to address the points I raised in my letter in the Gazette on May 13.
However, Robin Taylor has, not surprisingly, decided to fight someone else's war. Nor is it a surprise that he misquoted me. I said: 'Marches and banner-waving solve nothing.' I did not say they 'achieve nothing'. They achieve many things, but it takes changes in people's minds and in the law to do so - as Mr Taylor well knows.
If I am wrong about who in Southall considers the English Defence League to be divisive, then where is Mr Taylor's proof for his claim that 'just about everyone in Southall opposes the EDL'?
Southall is approximately 37 per cent Sikh, 20 per cent Hindu, 19 per cent Muslim and 16 per cent Christian, with the remainder Buddhist, Jewish or other religions or none. Is just about everyone in Southall happy with how all the
tenets of Islam are gradually being made legal in the UK?
As for the EDL being 'led by a former member of the BNP', Mr Taylor would do well to think of St Paul's conversion on the road to Damascus - by perhaps the second most important person in the history of the Christian church.
Mr Taylor fails to address the main thrusts of my letter: the introduction of a political banner into a most holy Sikh festival; the handing out of 3,000 political leaflets; why Sikhism still has a militaristic nature; and why those born in the UK have an Indian Workers' Association.
In what Mr Taylor would call a free democracy, the right to belong or not to anything should be paramount. Especially when babies are given no choice as to the religion in which they are brought up.
EC HAYMAN Beaumont Road
Chiswick
