This is very common. Europeans did it to Jesus. The Chinese did it to Buddha.
People appropriate what they desire. Our artists need to make sure that they present our ancestors in their proper hues. If you look at Sikh art from M. Ranjit Singh's time, the indigenous artists appear to have gone out of their way to represent Sikh as a mixture of dark skinned and light skinned folk reflecting the reality of our society. It's only all those Aryan/Scythian bull5hit believers amongst us who started to believe we were some descendents of some white invaders - stupidly and probably unwittingly justifying their subjugation by white Europeans and identifying with them. There are very subtle psychological mind games being played by our attackers here.
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