Purpose of my blog

I've received a couple of questions on a couple of posts, so let me clarify the purpose of my blog.

I should've made this post a couple of days ago when my site probably reached its peak in readership.

Anyways... unexpectedly, I've been linked to by a couple of my favourite blogs. And naturally, this has significantly altered my audience.

I had about a 95% "Sikh" audience before Thursday, and now my audience is a lot more "white" (for lack of a better word).

When I first started writing, it was partially due to the fact that there was a complete absence of "Sikh" blogs, or even that much blogging going on at all in the Punjabi community. My second reason was because of the annoyingly "liberal" bent in all of my friends. I need there to be Sikhs who can relate to my views! I can't stand the completely mindless Trudeau/Chretien/Martin worshipping that I heard this past summer when it came to talking about the June election. So basically, my blog is supposed to have two purposes: talking about Sikh-related issues and using my words to hopefully persuade even a single (Sikh or otherwise) person I know to re-evaluate their political leanings. Politics isn't everything, and I know that, to quote Mark Steyn: "For a true conservative, politics should never be all consuming. The purpose of conservative politics is to free the citizen to get on with more important stuff - family, home, fishing, stamp-collecting."

I've encountered quite a few catholic blogs and blogs that are religiously based from a whole host of Christian denominations--where they combined politics, culture and religious issues into a single page, and that's what I hope to emulate.

Why am I making this post? Because most non-Sikh people will have no idea what I'm talking about in nearly half of my posts. A lot of my posts will probably deal with issues related to Sikh youth and Sikh doctrine, community issues, Gurdvara (temple) elections, etc.

For example, I've tried to follow Kathy Shaidle over at Relapsed Catholic, and honestly, because of my completely hopeless ignorance when it comes to Christian/Catholic doctrine, I have no idea what she's talking about half the time, but I still read what she has to say.

My blog will hopefully look like something similar. So I say to my white brothers, don't be confused by my posts when they deal with Sikh community issues; I know I'll be making posts that are more universal, posts that anybody can relate to as well.