This booklet comprises ten chapters spread out in 35 pages and is published by the South Asian Outreach Team located in Nairobi, Kenya. It reads: “As Christians we all know Jesus’ command, ‘Love thy neighbor.’ The greatest way we can love our neighbor is by sharing the love of Jesus with them through our lives and works….” In this booklet the neighbor referred to is a Sikh who ought to be visited upon, shared the promises of Jesus, and talked into converting to Christianity. And this targeted Sikh neighbor lives in Kenya.

The book is really a squeal to an earlier book “Lions, Princesses, Gurus: Reaching Your Sikh Neighbor” by Ram Gidoomal and Margaret Wardell. The SikhSpectrum has already published a review of that book in its February 2006 issue. Whereas Lions, Princesses, Gurus was intended for missionaries to convert Sikhs living in England, Love Thy Neighbor is intended to convert Sikhs living in Kenya.

Love Thy Neighbor is a specimen of poor scholarship. Most of its contents are taken from Lions, Princesses, Gurus. In addition we learn the history of Sikh migration to East Africa beginning in 1895. Since then the Sikhs have built 21 places of worship in Kenya alone.

Sikhs in general and those living in Kenya should pay keen attention to what transpires around them. Christian missionaries have them targeted for conversion. The authors of “Love Thy Neighbor”, while professing openly to love others, don’t shy away from expressing their disgust of Sikhism in a warning note addressed to fellow missionaries:

When we deal with Sikhism, we deal with principalities and powers. Satan is the boss of Sikhism, and he does not like people to come out of his hand! So be aware that you are moving in on enemy territory…. You may come across people who are cursed or oppressed by demons. Many Sikhs are influenced by “black magic” and superstitions….

When Christian missionaries talk of LOVE for you, not only is it a perversion of accepted ethics but it also shows how their interpretation of the Bible has deteriorated their thought processes! Only recently the Sikhs living in El Sobrante, California saw a specimen of this “love”. During their annual parade, Sikhs were greeted by a six-page pamphlet titled, “Please Consider These Words of Love My SIKH Friend,” the work of Pastor Kent Brandenburg of the local Bethel Baptist Church. Recognizing that the contents of this pamphlet as NO LOVE, the Sikh community protested against this un-invited encroachment. This pamphlet can be accessed at: www.cctextra.com/multimedia/pdf/bethel_baptist_church.pdf


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