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Dalai Lama says 'Europe belongs to Europeans'
France 24 ^ | 9/12/2018

Posted on 09/16/2018 4:33:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Wednesday that "Europe belongs to the Europeans" and that refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them.

Speaking at a conference in Sweden's third-largest city of Malmo, home to a large immigrant population, the Dalai Lama -- who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 -- said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life". "Receive them, help them, educate them... but ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan who fled the capital Lhasa in fear of his life after China poured troops into the region to crush an uprising.

"I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he said, adding they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country".

Revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, and regarded by his many supporters as a visionary in the vein of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama was speaking three days after the far-right populist party Sweden Democrats made gains in the country's general election on Sunday.

The anti-immigration party came in third, behind Prime Minister Stefan Lofven's Social Democrats and the opposition conservative Moderates in the Nordic nation which in 2015 took in the highest number of asylum seekers per capita in Europe.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: buddhism; ccp; china; dalailama

1 posted on 09/16/2018 4:33:04 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

European liberals have stopped saying “Free Tibet”, and they certainly don’t care about their own countries anymore.


2 posted on 09/16/2018 4:46:56 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: Altura Ct.

Sorry Dolly...that train has left the station


3 posted on 09/16/2018 4:51:35 AM PDT by albie
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To: Altura Ct.

Well, at least he is consistent. If Tibet belongs to Tibetan, then Europe must belong to Europeans.


4 posted on 09/16/2018 4:52:56 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: albie

funny how AFP - who wrote this account - left out:

13 Sept: Voice of Europe: Dalai Lama: Europe belongs to Europeans and refugees have to go home
He also repeatedly said that Chinese mass immigration to Tibet is the biggest threat to the nation’s identity.
“The unimpeded influx of Chinese immigrants to Tibet has the effect of flooding Tibet’s distinct cultural and religious identity and Tibetans being reduced to an insignificant minority in their own country.
“It is nothing less than a cultural genocide”, he said during a speech in connection with the 38th anniversary of the Tibetan uprising.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/09/dalai-lama-europe-belongs-to-europeans-and-refugees-have-to-go-home/

in other words, he know of what he speaks.


5 posted on 09/16/2018 4:53:28 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Altura Ct.

America belongs to America.

Deport Islam.

Deport all foreign press and foreign powers.


6 posted on 09/16/2018 5:00:24 AM PDT by TheNext (Anonymous Source)
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To: Altura Ct.

Well that’s not what the Satanic Pope says.


7 posted on 09/16/2018 5:01:58 AM PDT by RonnG ( v)
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To: Altura Ct.

Racist. (Sarcasm).

Wonder what crackpot Richard Gere thinks about this?

Not that I care, the Dalai Lama is right.


8 posted on 09/16/2018 5:04:30 AM PDT by ZULU (MAGA)
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To: Altura Ct.
the Dalai Lama, said Wednesday that "Europe belongs to the Europeans"

He should tell that to the PC Europeans. They seem to have forgotten it.

9 posted on 09/16/2018 5:05:03 AM PDT by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: MAGAthon

an interesting aside on cultural migration.

There is a TV series on wild areas of China. One segment featured tibet. Since forever, tibetians raise very tall poles with ropes. The poles and the ropes are covered with bright colored clothes that flap like small flags. The raising ceremony and the bright colors have some religious significance.

Several ropes are used to raise the pole. One tibetian man working a rope was clad in jeans and was wearing a straw stetson hat. One wonders how a stetson hat, jeans and a western shirt made it to the far back boondocks of Tibet


10 posted on 09/16/2018 5:06:16 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: bert

Trying hard to rook rike Gary Cooper.

Super-dooper!


11 posted on 09/16/2018 5:10:42 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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To: Altura Ct.

So they’ve got that going for them, which is nice.


12 posted on 09/16/2018 5:12:21 AM PDT by deadrock
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To: Altura Ct.

Good!

More people are speaking out.


13 posted on 09/16/2018 5:32:52 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith......)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

They are not refugees. They are the globalists’ invitees.


14 posted on 09/16/2018 5:38:10 AM PDT by arthurus (<e6f|}/.,h0kl\\b56g8**rzy,.xt)
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To: Altura Ct.

Oh no, the liberals will accuse the Dalai Lama of being racist... Pass the popcorn, please...


15 posted on 09/16/2018 6:34:37 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: MAGAthon; aquila48

Namaste, bro.


16 posted on 09/16/2018 6:52:15 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (If they want to live by Sharia, I don't want them to live by me.)
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To: Altura Ct.

Does he have a Facebook Page?

He might just get banned for that “hateful” remark!/s


17 posted on 09/16/2018 7:21:46 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: MAGAthon; Altura Ct.

“Dalai Lama: Europe belongs to Europeans and refugees have to go home.He also repeatedly said that Chinese mass immigration to Tibet is the biggest threat to the nation’s identity. The unimpeded influx of Chinese immigrants to Tibet has the effect of flooding Tibet’s distinct cultural and religious identity and Tibetans being reduced to an insignificant minority in their own country.”

But you only own that which you are willing and able to defend by whatever means available to you.

The Tibetans have the will but not the means, the Europeans (and us, I might add) have the means but not the will.


18 posted on 09/16/2018 10:11:14 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Altura Ct.

Who knew, the Dalai Lama is a Nationalist!


19 posted on 09/16/2018 10:15:05 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: aquila48

“Who knew, the Dalai Lama is a Nationalist!”

He’s also a Socialist.

My God, he’s Hitler!


20 posted on 09/16/2018 1:55:57 PM PDT by Chad N. Freud (FR is the modern equivalent of the Committees of Correspondence. Let other analogies arise.)
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