JaxDad wrote:
I too am a little confused on how having a picture of a revered religious leader on the side of his truck constitutes a "bonus"?
Bonus what?
Itโs called irony. :R
He was driving like a bat outta heck with what I equated at the time with a plastic Jesus on his dashboard.
Edit 10/22/18:
These attempts to shame me for posting the picture have bothered me for several days.
Since the day we took the picture, I made several attempts to determine who the image is depicting without success. I consider myself to be a curious, knowledge seeking person, and felt that knowing who the image was would give it some context. I said nothing disrespectful in my post, and I find it equally ironic that those trying to shame me for making negative assumptions about another culture are themselves making negative assumptions about me.
Itโs unlikely that the image is of a Sikh Guru, because itโs clearly a reproduction of a photograph. There were 10 Sikh Gurus, and the last one died in 1708. Photography didnโt exist in those days. I also had a feeling that there must be some significance to the blade being held, even though it wasnโt the traditional Sikh curved blade Kirpan knife. Turns out that itโs actually a spear tip that this closely cropped picture has distorted.
I was finally able to determine that the image is in fact of Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, a man who symbolized the revivalist, extremist and terrorist movement in the 1980s in Punjab, and was responsible for the launching the Sikh Militancy.
A quote from his Wikipedia page:
โFrom his rise in popularity in 1978, till his death on June 6, 1984, for a period of six years Bhindranwale propagated and practised hate through the orthodox Sikh tenets. He used Amrit Prachar, the propagation of the tenets of the Sikh faith and mixed radical fundamentalism with incitement to violence. Author Khushwant Singh, summarized his โrevelationsโ, that Bhindranwale was not bothered with the subtle points of theology; he had his list of doโs and donโts clearly set out in bold letters. He took those passages from the sacred texts which suited his purpose and ignored or glossed over others that did not. He well understood that hate was a stronger passion than love: his list of hates was even more clearly and boldly spelt out.โ
You are free to draw your own conclusions.
Please PM me if you want to discuss this further.
:):)
2001 Lance 1121 on a 2016 F450 โScuse me while I whinge.
And for all you Scooby-Doo and Yosemite Sam typesโฆโฆโฆ..Letโs Go Brandon!!!
