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PJ on some Cat Stevens shit
Sikhism is an entirely different religion than Islam
It's weird that so many people are getting the two mixed up, but at least it's a learning experience.
Alright so two things:
1) I thought
@ziggy was refering to the name changing because of religion, rather than saying they share religion
2) So my relation to Sikhism is mainly that my girlfriend's childhood friend got married into the religion, and we attended their wedding (I didn't understand much of the ceremony, but you do eat some super sweet cake-like stuff, and there's a banging tabla jam in the middle of the ceremony)... However, at the party I talked to a lot of the grooms close friends - who were all Sikhs - and from their description they said it isn't entirely wrong to say that Sikhism is a version of Islam. Their description of it is that it is a mixture of Hinduism and Islam, where the divine aspect is toned down and is replaced by a focus that is heavier relied being in the world (yoga, behave-well, etc.)
While I'm no expert I kind of think that more people get it wrong the other way around, where they are not aware that sikhism are in fact related to Islam.