The history of Sikh spiritual leadership is a bit tainted. So it is understandable that many people may be confused about the tenets and authority of the leaders no matter where it comes from. It is due to lack of education and insincerity to Sikhi.
If the leaders are below par they cannot expect masses to believe any of their recommendations or advice. Majority of Sikhs can see through them.
You can take ‘guidance’ from our leaders over the last 27 years which is well documented. They have colluded with nefarious elements and attacked Harminder Sahib, blanked out any media that can present truth to the people, corrupted the police, are killing Amritdhari Sikhs, encouraging Deras, corrupting the books used to teach Sikhs, protecting the culprits of the 1984 Katylam, organising silly stunts that they can later correct to hoodwink the uninformed masses list is endless.
Sikhs are not fools – the talent they have can see through all this and have the courage and patience to unfold blood stained lies by self sacrifices.
This is all despite the help from SGPC, DSPGC and Akal Takhat not to mention state and India Governments.
For a society where the Gurus considered themselves lowest of the low, protected the Truth, fought against tyranny, sacrificed their lives for humanity, guided us along the right path for over 200 years and for these leaders to come along and ‘behave like gods’ is no short than the brahmanical quagmire that Sikh religion replaced.
It is understandable for uneducated people to take sides when perfectly respectable people are excommunicated only because these people in ‘authority’ cannot understand the issues.
Read the Publishers note to a Book ‘Panjab and Panjabi’ by GS Sidhu – it may explain the path followed by these leaders.