A group of Sikhs has hijacked the entire Sikh group and has succeeded in getting our naive Prime Minister to formally apologize to Sikhs in Parliament today. The apology is supposedly for denying Sikhs the right to enter Canada in the Komagata Maru incident of 1914.
Most of the 376 Sikhs aboard a ship called the Komagata Maru were denied entry to Canada in 1914. According to some crude Sikhs, Canada had no justification for doing this. Undoubtedly, a number of other Sikhs are cringing at Trudeau's announcement because they believe that the incident was much more complicated than the picture a group of Sikhs claim it was. They also think the Sikhs have already received an apology and that endless, aggressive Sikh demands are alienating most Canadians.
Most Canadians, including our Prime Minister, know little about the Komagata Maru issue. First, we offer the following facts to inform Mr. Trudeau and other Canadians of the historical record in 1914 and of numerous other shameless recent Sikh actions.
Key Historical Facts about Komagata Maru
(1) Gurdit Singh, the leader of the Komagata Maru voyage, had successfully challenged British authorities in a Singapore court on an unrelated matter. His victory gave him confidence that he could get Canada to accept his 376 passengers. In fact, he boasted to authorities that after landing his 376 mostly Sikh passengers, he would take another 25,000 to Canada. In 1914, Vancouver had a population between 60,000 and 70,000. Twenty-five thousand additional Sikhs would have significantly diluted the European-based population, added to the ongoing conflict over low-wage Asian workers and inflamed concern that B.C.'s population could be overwhelmed by large numbers of Asians.
Many crude Sikhs like to suggest that Canada had no right to defend its B.C. population and workers from being culturally and economically overwhelmed by Asians. Ironically, B.C. resentment was very similar to the resentment that the Chinese and East Indians felt towards European colonizers in their countries at the same time. If Chinese and East Indians were justified in resisting colonization, so were Canadians who faced a similar danger from huge numbers of Chinese and East Indians.
(2) The Komagata Maru incident was preceded by the Panama Maru incident of October 17, 1913. That event helps to explain much of what happened in the Komagata Maru incident seven months later. ...
http://www.eurocanadian.ca/2016/05/komagata-maru-incident-dont-apologize-to-sikhs.html
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