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Balpreet Kaur: Huffington Post Religion's Person Of The Year [View all]
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/28/balpreet-kaur-huffpost-person-of-the-year_n_2340468.htmlPosted: 12/28/2012 8:40 am EST | Updated: 12/28/2012 11:15 am EST
Huffington Post Religion is proud to announce that our 2012 Person Of The Year is Balpreet Kaur.
In past years we have made lists of 'most influential' religious leaders which have included the Pope and the Dalai Lama. However, when the HuffPost religion editors thought about the person we admired most in the last year, the unanimous choice was Ms. Kaur.
Ms. Kaur became an internet sensation when a photo of her standing in a line was taken by an editor at Reddit (a 'Redditor) who posted it online under the subject heading 'funny,' apparently based on her unique appearance.
Balpreet Kaur responded to the intentional denigration by explaining who she was, why she looked the way she does, and the tenets of her Sikh faith with a remarkable generosity of spirit:
"Yes, Im a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body - it is a gift that has been given to us by the Divine Being [which is genderless, actually] and, must keep it intact as a submission to the divine will... When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away," Kaur wrote. "However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can."
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Who do I have to be to surmise that Republican trickle-down economics is flimsy?
Silent3
Dec 2012
#16
So did Balpreet Kaur insult others who choose not to keep intact their gift from the Divine?
eomer
Dec 2012
#9
I have no idea what you are getting at here. Are we talking about the article or
cbayer
Dec 2012
#13
My impression is that some defenders here of theists are very quick to tell atheists
eomer
Dec 2012
#26
As you stated quite well in another post here, you maintain the right to challenge
cbayer
Dec 2012
#29
Perhaps we ought to consider cleft lips, disfiguring conditions easily corrected
dimbear
Dec 2012
#18