We at Jhootha Sauda think, that inspite of all the reasons and logics going against it, the need of the hour is to retain peace. One person with messed up mind should not be the reason that should lead us to dark hours of Punjab, we have recently come out of.
History is the proof, in a war of ideas and violence, it is ideas that won most of the time. Fight intellect with intellect. Instead of flaming the message boards of the dera followers, I would recommend all Punjabis to encourage them to start a logical dialogue, and show them the real picture of their so called guru.
It is a slow and painful process, and its hard to change already made up minds. But shunning them will harden their beliefs in the Dera. Start a logical dialogue with all those you can; there will always be some idiots, however remember the person who retains calm is the one who wins in the end.
This may seem like a typical Gandhian principle (I do respect Mr Gandhi, just like Martin Luther King ; however I’m not a Gandhian), but I would like to refer a note from my favorite Shaheed Bhagat Singh’s diary:
“The aim of life is no more to control mind, but to develop it harmoniously, not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below, and not to realize truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in-the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment democracy or universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.” (Page 124 of Jail notebook)