Sikh violence.

[Strong Atheist]

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/vienna-attack-sikh-priest-killed-tension-in-punjab/93303-3.html

http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=1e916184-4c12-493a-9c2f-af09e7a4edf5&Headline=Via+Vienna%2c+Sikh+caste+war+returns%2c+sets+Punjab+aflame

Witnesses said the Vienna temple attended by lower-caste Sikhs was attacked Sunday by Sikhs from a higher caste who accused one or both of the preachers of being disrespectful of the religion's Holy Book.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_austria_temple_shooting

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. What a refreshing change -

violence over a book that is neither the Bible nor the Koran.

[dmallind]

2. Lemme guess - this isn't about or because of religion either eh? NT

[Strong Atheist]

3. Sure it is. That is why I posted it here; it is religion news. nt.

[dmallind]

4. Just wait - some apologists will tell is it's all politics or tribalism

and attacking people because of their opinion on religion somehow has nothing to do with religion.

[Strong Atheist]

5. Ah. Sorry. I mis-understood your post. My bad.

:hi:

[struggle4progress]

6. Article says: "... lower-caste .. attacked .. by .. higher caste ..."

Violence against an "uppity" lower class, to keep them "in their place," is a widespread phenomenon. The ideological justifications for such violence vary with context. Lynchings in the Jim Crow South frequently were attended with cries to "save white Christian women" -- though of course such terrorism served the major structural purpose of reinforcing the low status of the black underclass. One would naturally expect a different ideological justification for threat of violence that enforced the feudal Polish robot system. When King Leopold in Belgium decided to enrich himself by carving out a private colony in the Congo, he sent armed mercenaries -- but he made quite sure that the adventure was framed in the home press as a humanitarian project of Christianizing and educating the "savages," with little mention of the soldiers and weapons he exported, so that actual events were obscured behind mystifying "feel-good" babble

I find your post depressing, not because of your conclusion, but because you leap to the conclusion based entirely on ideological prejudices, rather than a careful examination of the actual event, actors, and historical/political/cultural context

[dmallind]

7. It also says based on attitude towards holy text no? Is that an ideological prejudice?

Can religion EVER cause violence? Tell me do.

[struggle4progress]

8. (1) "... At the centre of the conflagration is a battle for the control of cash-rich

overseas gurdwaras ... Till a few months ago, Vienna had just one gurdwara on Rudolphsheim Street, controlled by radicals loyal to Khalistan, a separate Sikh homeland .... the Dera Sach Akhand .. <set> up a gurdwara on the same street" http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=1e916184-4c12-493a-9c2f-af09e7a4edf5&Headline=Via+Vienna%2c+Sikh+caste+war+returns%2c+sets+Punjab+aflame

(2) "... Werner Autericky, a high-ranking Vienna police official, told the Austria Press Agency .. the motive was not definitive ..." http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_austria_temple_shooting