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ABSTRACTS OF SIKH STUDIES : APRIL-JUNE 2005 / 537 NS
their highly tendentious and demeaning writings on Sikh Gurus in
Text Books for XI & XII classes, speak for themselves.
S Daljit Singh, Prof Jagjit Singh and Justice Gurdev Singh in 1986,
and Dr Trilochan Singh eight years later, have gone into great depths
to analyse the irrationality of McLeod and his methodology. Justice
Gurdev Singh attributes extraneous motives in McLeod’s designs to
undermine Sikh tradition. Dr Trilochan Singh talks of “logic of state
terrorism and unrelenting despotism of anti-Punjab and anti-Sikh Delhi
rulers” in having surrogate intellectuals in whose hands “truth suffers
in more ways than one.”
McLeod has excelled himself in inventing, fabricating, mutilating,
falsifying, distorting and tampering with facts. He has lost all hope of
getting Christ’s benediction on the Day of Judgment. If he now
contends that he is not a missionary, not a Christian, and not even an
atheist, one should accept that at face value. For, McLeod by
enunciating all these falsifications now falls within the framework of
Hinduism, with mumbo-jumbo doctrines. He emerges as an agent of
Hindu fundamentalism as enunciated by, (Mahatma) M K Gandhi.
Keeping in view how the intelligence agencies allover work, I leave it
to McLeod to spell out how he was compensated. The quantum of
damages done to the Sikh cause, and also for the work done under his
supervision by his proteges has been tremendous. This possibly
accounts for his publishing thin, lean, volumes rehashing his arguments,
attacking the basics of Sikhism, over the years and showing his
importance.
McLeod’s storehouse of lies is getting exposed and his
falsifications are increasingly getting dissipated. One of McLeod’s
associates in Delhi told me that though McLeod, in his words, one of
great scholars of Sikhism, cannot enter a Sikh shrine. This is so because
of the hostility he evokes from the Sikh community, for there is quite
an odium attached to his name. He is lucky, for there is no Ayatollah
Khomeini among the Sikhs. His caricature and demeaning references
to Sikh Gurus and Sikh scriptures are in no way less blasphemous
than what Salman Rushdie in Satanic Verses did to the Prophet, his
wives, and the holy Qoran.