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I think primarily the current 'system' of decision making. Nothing ever gets resolved properly, c.f women doing kirtan at Darbar Sahib, Anand Karaj issues, safeguarding processes inc. allegations of abuse, the handling of ideological diversity, religious authority issues etc ... — Jasjit Singh (@DrJasjitSingh) December 10, 2018

And of course a lot of this is down to the fact that gurdwaras in diaspora are established locally, primarily through the hard work of local communities and therefore see little need to have to link to or obey edicts from a central org ... — Jasjit Singh (@DrJasjitSingh) December 10, 2018

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On Saturday, a number of police officers were called to a Gurdwara in West London in a dispute over a controversial and much-criticised preacher.The incident prompted researcher Dr Jasjit Singh to reiterate something he had found in his own research."I mapped historical incidents of violence involving Sikhs in Britain for my report (pg 22)," he tweeted."I found the most frequent type of violence [after 1984] involving Sikhs is against other Sikhs. Heartbreaking. The system is broken. Things need to change."Here are the incidents he mapped for the report, which was widely praised by British Sikhs when it was published.Click the image for the full sizeThe report examined the context and reality of Sikh activism in the UK. Its main focus was addressing accusations of 'extremism' and 'radicalisation' by the Indian government. It found little evidence for most of these claims.But it also addressed Sikh on Sikh violence:"The timeline above highlights how ‘Sikh on Sikh’ issues in Britain have occurred in relation toa) the 1984 related ‘political’ violence around viewpoints on Khalistan,b) gurdwara governance issues,c) disagreements around Sikh practices and doctrined) factional disputes between Sikhs following particular groups or individuals (see Appendix D for a geographical mapping of the above incidents).""Roughly half of the ‘Sikh on Sikh’ incidents listed have taken place due to gurdwara governance issues with the remaining half being a consequence of doctrinal and / or factional conflicts between groups.""The number of such incidents appears to have increased in recent years as points of contention are now quickly disseminated online. As the timeline above only contains ‘Sikh on Sikh’ incidents reported in mainstream English language British media, it is important to note that other such incidents will have certainly taken place which have not been reported in mainstream media, or which have only been reported in Sikh and Punjabi media."When asked what system was "broken", Dr Jasjit Singh elaborated further on Twitter: