An Garda Siochana changes its name

[dcfcsteve]

eh from what i remember reading there are under 5000 sikhs in Ireland ( 26 counties ), i have never noticed where ALL these sikhs live? Is it like the ballyhaunis equivalent in some town in tipperary that I never heard of where they all live?! Or do they all live in the phoneix park side of the North Circular?

Without looking at any census info, I'd say it's a sure bet most would live in Dublin. They'llk want to live near fellow Seikhs and religious facilities - which in Ireland would suggest Dublin.

Ethnic and religious minorities do tend to cluster in certain small areas - you know this yourself from living in England (e.g. Southall, Blackburn, Bradford, Leicester, Stamford Hill, Tower Hamlets, Stockwell, Brixton etc etc etc ) sure, the Irish were no different in The Bronx, South Boston, Kilburn, Cricklewood etc etc. So it should be no suirprise to you if, by chance, there was a town somewhere where the majority of Ireland's Sikhs lived. It's the same in England with Southall.....

[dcfcsteve]

this could go too far down the road, but if i went to pakistan steve and saw all the men and women wearing shorts and t-shirts, I would get a great shock, and also I would wonder what happened to their "culture and beliefs".

So because it's like that in Pakistan, we should behave like that over here ?

Should we also mimic their military government as well......?

P.S. Let's not forget that, even in this day and age, Ireland still has laws that are based on Catholic beliefs : e.g. our approach towards abortion. It was barely over a decade ago that we legalised divorce (1995), for example, and only then by the slimmest of margins in a referendum.

[paul_oshea]

So because it's like that in Pakistan, we should behave like that over here ?

Whats wrong with their behaviour? Are you suggesting that because they have different values and beliefs to you that they are mis-behaving?

I would look at their neighbours India before I would suggest Pakistan, e.g spending $120 mil dollars a year to sustain a military base up on one of the highest peaks around kashmir.

[dcfcsteve]

Whats wrong with their behaviour? Are you suggesting that because they have different values and beliefs to you that they are mis-behaving?

You were suggesting that they would seek to force their different values and beliefs upon other people who may not share the same value/belief structure as them

I would look at their neighbours India before I would suggest Pakistan, e.g spending $120 mil dollars a year to sustain a military base up on one of the highest peaks around kashmir.

India is the world's biggest democracy. Pakistan is a military government installed by a de facto coup. Democracies can spend on military installations if they like - that doesn't make them undemocratic. Pakistan is nowhere near the democracy that India is.