Posted on 07/13/2008 9:39:31 PM PDT by Brian S. Fitzgerald
"...During a question-and-answer session following the mostly lighthearted talk, he added that reaching out to other religions is the best way to combat violent religious extremism.
"Sometimes in the West, [there is] some impression that Islam is something militant. Totally wrong," he said. "Since [the] Sept. 11 event, I try to reach out to Muslim brothers and sisters. ...They are wonderful -- Islamic people. Very warm-hearted. Very sensible," he said, adding that some Christians, Buddhists and Hindus are also extremists.
"These few mischievous people cannot represent whole traditions," said the Dalai Lama, who will continue lecturing at Lehigh through Tuesday on a 600-year-old Tibetan Buddhist text..."
(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...
Second source, as the Mod pulled my first post because it originated with AP news.
“peaceful islam” ping
If the Dalai Lama doesn’t think Islam is militant, he is obviously unaware of its atrocities against mankind.
Holy men are so smart!
Hey, I know some nice Chinese nationals, too! Instead of lecturing us about how we should deal with our enemies, he should go back to Tibet and negotiate his existence with the ChiComs. Let’s see how far he gets...
With all due respect to Tenzin Gyatso, aka HH The Dalai Lama, but that’s the reason Tibet is but a memory. A fascinating article on “The Exile” by the “War Nerd” (http://www.exile.ru/articles/detail.php?ARTICLE_ID=18764&IBLOCK_ID=35&PAGE=2) columnist on Tibet’s centuries-long decline from its little-known heyday as a warlike empire of the steppes (7th - 9th centuries, a.d.):
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“It’s much easier to be a do-gooder about Tibet if you’re totally ignorant of Central Asian history, like the days when Tibetan conquerors filled up whole carts with the ears of guys they’d killed. Even this idea that Tibet is the homeland of Buddhism, the most Buddhist place on the planet, is crap; Tibet got Buddhism very late, trying it on a couple of times before it took.
The glory days of Tibet were before Buddhism, which is probably not a coincidence. If I had to respect any religion it’d be the Buddhists because they’re quiet and they seem pretty well-behaved, but it’s not the kind of creed you’d want to conquer with. Before you got your army out the door, some annoying Zen type would be saying in that quiet serious voice they put on, “Is not the greatest conquest that of peace?” To which you’d have to say, “No, it’s a tossup between Alexander and the Mongols and would you please put your neck a little farther out the door? It’s at a bad angle for me from there.” And that wouldn’t set the tone for a happy war of conquest, the local monk getting his head blown off at the start.
The Tibetans in their conquering days—which means roughly in Charlemagne’s time—were followers of something called Bon, or Bun, which sounds either like the department store in Seattle or part of a hamburger, but apparently was some sort of mix of Taoist magic and Mongol shamanism. Sounds pretty fun. And it worked as a military religion...”
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Buddhism is best admired from afar and as a novelty item. As a state religion is basically an act of national suicide.
Same guy who described himself a couple of months ago as a “Marxist monk”.
Mine got pulled also. I would think that the posting wizard could detect AP articles and warn the poster. No?
The DL better be careful. Reaching out to his “Muslim Brothers” could end up costing his arms.
What a great scam he's had going all these years.
The Dolly must not have noticed that of the thousands of acts of terror committed in recent years, muzzl’ems have accounted for the vast majority. But I guess that isn’t militant.
Gunga-ga-Lunga
The more I read about this guy the less I like....
Chauncey “Chance” Gardiner in robes.
The Dalai Lama is one of those people who never see anyone except smiling, reverent, deferential, respectful people. Ever. That has got to result in a warped view of the world.
I had this discussion with a good friend who somehow became enamored by Buddism and the DL...the Friend just could not relate to the fact that DL has done absolutely nothing as a leader except help the Chinese murder the Tibetann’s and take over the country. The coward DL is just another in the long line of spiritual scammers that have seduced the lefty morons in the West to finance his cowardly existance.....
well said
Event? try the word attack, or um...murder for starters...I guess that wouldn't fit his b.s. statment about muslims being "wonderful"
Never thought that your alma mater would fall as far as mine; maybe yours works harder at it.
I would remind the sheep name Dolly that the followers of Islam destroyed ancient Buddhist icons in Afghanistan. Let Dolly go forth into Persia and spread his message of peace.
Flowing robes - the whole thing.
Guess Richard Gere agrees with the Dalai.
Have to admit I long felt this man was a hustler. Rather than going back to his country he fled, married and divorced an American woman, and is dining out with the Hollyweirdos.
"These few mischievous people..."
There goes my respect for the Dalai Lama.
" 'It was this huge honor,' said Alyssa Stein, a 19-year-old rising junior from Pennington, N.J."
My respect for Princeton just hit a bump, too.
Translation-
The Dalai Lama is scared sh**less of Islam.
“Same guy who described himself a couple of months ago as a “Marxist monk”.”
I remember that, and have been looking for the article, you don’t have a link do you?
The Dalai Lama comes to Bethlehem ping
He is truly a man of peace. Of course men of peace are often idiots.
Clear proof that one can be either foolish or ignorant to be the Dalai Lama.
Doesn’t the word “jihad” say it all?
When my AP based post got deleted by the Admin, I searched for a news source local to the event. It had more information and even a video.
This guy in an idiot and a marxist to boot. I don’t know why so much of the world is enamored of him.
I wonder what the Dalai Lama has said about Hitler and Stalin.
What a feckless fool.
They have to be to be admired by the "Smartest of the Smart"...Hollywood actors.
"These few"? With all due respect, sir, every one of the globe's current 30+ military conflicts involve Muslims on one or both sides. The vast majority of the thousands (if not millions) of honor killings, gang rapes, female genital mutilations, suicude bombings, etc are committed by those who are Muslim, BECAUSE they are Muslims, and are done in the name of Islam. Even if it is just 5% of Islamics that are "bad" (and I think that is a gross under-estimation), 5% of the 1.2 billion Muslims means that there are 60 million perpetrators. This is simply not "a few mischevious people". They are spread out amongst at least a third of all nations on the globe, both rich and poor. 60 million is pretty close to the total number of armed and uniformed soldiers in the world. "Few" is simply not an accurate or fair representation of their numbers, influnce, or impact.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146114/posts
Thai Buddhist shrine ransacked(Muslim rampage, beheading)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1279345/posts
Muslim-Buddhist violence hits Thailand
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1417680/posts
Muslim “Activists” Behead Buddhist in Thailand
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801116/posts
Muslim rebels kill 9 Buddhists
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821077/posts
Buddhist women shot dead in Thai Muslim south ( and more )
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815120/posts
Islam’s War Against Buddhism
Jus’ sayin’.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=1.0.2336968838
Sudan: Khartoum rejects war crimes claims against president
Khartoum, 14 July (AKI) - The Sudanese government has rejected war crimes allegations against the country's president, Omar Bashir, to be put to the International Criminal Court.
The government has also requested an emergency meeting with officials from the Arab League to be held in Cairo next Wednesday to discuss the issue.
ICC prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo on Monday accused Bashir of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur.
"His motives were largely political," Moreno-Ocampo said. "His alibi was a 'counterinsurgency'. His intent was genocide."
The United Nations estimates 300,000 people have died in Darfur and another 2.5 million have been displaced.
The prosecutor said for five years, army soldiers and tribal militias attacked and destroyed villages on Bashir's orders.
But the Sudanese Ministry for Foreign Affairs told the satellite TV network, al-Arabiya, it rejects the claims and is strenuously pursuing peace efforts in Darfur.
It also stressed it was doing everything possible to protect United Nations workers in Sudan.
Moreno-Ocampo told judges at The Hague that Bashir bore criminal responsibility for alleged atrocities committed in Sudan over the past five years.
The three judges on the panel must now decide whether there are grounds for an arrest warrant to be issued.
Sudan's government responded by saying any indictment would be meaningless.
The country has refused to hand over two suspects, Humanitarian Affairs Minister Ahmad Harun and militia leader Ali Kushayb, who were charged by the prosecutor last year.
According to the Arab site, Elaph, members of the Arab League will meet to discuss the issue.
"Notwithstanding the Sudanese request to gather the Arab foreign ministers, we decided to call a meeting of delegates to the Arab League," a source said.
"If news emerges from that meeting, then we will bring together Arab foreign ministers."
There are fears that the new war crimes charges could provoke a backlash against the 9,000-strong UN-African Union peacekeeping force in Darfur.
The UN Security Council asked Moreno-Ocampo to investigate crimes in Darfur in March 2005.
Secretary of the Islamic Conference, Akmaluddin Oghlo, reacted strongly to the war crimes allegations.
"We are very worried about the accusations of the prosecutor from the war crimes tribunal in relation to members of the Sudanese government," Oghlo said.
He criticised the tribunal for launching what he called "dangerous" claims during a "very delicate" period when the UN and the African Union were seeking peace in Darfur.
He’s just mischievous! That scamp. Sarcasm, of course.
Part of Buddhism is seeing the reality of situations. It sounds like DL isn’t practicing what he is preaching.
Perhaps the Lama would argue that Bashir is not really a Muslim.
Possibly, but I got a feeling that guy could lay those Zen-type (I know Zen is Japanese, but go with it) arguments on you about anything.
One could argue that the DL does a lot of things that don’t make him a Buddhist. Having attachments to even opinions is frowned upon in Buddhism. Tibetan Buddhism is actually the smallest denomination (I guess you’d call it a denomination) of Buddhism. It’s just the most visible in the west, because so many celebs are enamored with the DL.
His big problem is the Chicoms.
if he ever gets them off his back, he can look forward to the Islamofacists trying to make him into the ‘Dhimmi’ Lama.
“These few mischievous people cannot represent whole traditions,”
I wonder if he takes the same view of Communism. Just a few mischievous people in China. Right? Doesn’t represent the whole tradition of Communism?
CNN obtain photo of Taliban destroying (1,500 year old Buddhist) statues (Tuesday March 13, 2001)
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?r=2&q=Mischievous
mis·chie·vous
adj. Causing mischief.
Playful in a naughty or teasing way.
Troublesome; irritating: a mischievous prank.
Causing harm, injury, or damage: mischievous rumors and falsehoods.[Middle English mischevous, from mischef, mischief; see mischief.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
The Dalai Lama is totally wrong on Islam. He only has to look at Jammu and Kashmir, the neighboring state to the one that he lives in India, for examples of Islamic “tolerance.”
Statements like these are a distraction and are horribly misleading.
DL ping
Here is a link to one article.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/I-am-a-Marxist-monk-Dalai-Lama/263190/
Thanks, I believe that’s the one I saw before.
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