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Olde Tyme Religion
Dalai Lama: Islam misunderstood
2010-11-24
The Dalai Lama Tuesday called Islam one of the great religions, saying true jihad was about fighting “negative emotions” within oneself.

Speaking after receiving an honorary doctorate from DelhiÂ’s Jamia Millia Islamia university, the Tibetan spiritual leader said that some mischievous elements were giving Islam a bad name.

“I defend Islam,” the Dalai Lama said, “we should not generalize Islam due to few mischievous people. Such mischievous people are there among Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and all religions”.

“Some Muslims in this country (India) told me genuine Islam practitioner must extend love and compassion to all creatures. If a person creates bloodshed they are not Muslims,” he said adding, “the meaning of jihad is a struggle within ourselves against all negative emotions like anger, hatred, attachment, that creates problem in the society”.

He said though he had received such honors from universities throughout the world, he was particularly honored to receive one from a renowned Islamic institution in India.
Posted by:ryuge

#14  Islam is indeed one of the Great Religions.

Great at enslaving people into servitude of an imaginary "God" and encouraging them to kill each other, hate and make life on Earth an abject misery for millions
Posted by: anon1   2010-11-24 18:46  

#13  Later that evening, in the Kathmandu Hilton...

"Waiter, I said a double scotch. And the good stuff, not that swill you give to the tourists."
Posted by: Anonymoose   2010-11-24 18:36  

#12  Pity... the Dalai Lama could have stuck to the religion he knows about and talked about the need to understand and lessen the suffering we cause ourselves. Some of the adherents of Islam could benefit from that.
Posted by: Free Radical   2010-11-24 17:43  

#11  Pisslam misunderstood - by adherants, politicians, journalists, and lamas. Yes, oh, yes...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2010-11-24 16:14  

#10  I agree that Islam is misunderstood, but totally disagree with the DL on the details of that misunderstanding. Nothing hard to understand about 'death to infidels who do not submit, death to apostates, death to blasphemers, death to those who insult MO, death to uppity women, etc.", is there?
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2010-11-24 15:38  

#9  ...we should not generalize Islam due to few mischievous people.

OK, if your talking percentages...fair enough Holy Dude. But if your talking population it's hardly what most would consider a "few". Conservative estimates of the worlds population that subscribes to Salafist jihadism is anywhere between 200 to 500 million. Now, if you extract from that figure the truly "mischievous", at current levels, you have about 3 million in the indiscrimate killing for Islam game. Of course, depending on events, that number could rise exponentially. And it would be foolish to believe that any event would ever lead these guys to give up the splodey bizz for goat farming. So, yeah, maybe the West misunderstands the Shariah and conquest stuff. But, make no mistake, many completly understand the threat.
Posted by: DepotGuy   2010-11-24 12:09  

#8  another infidel authority on what true jihad is

Even the huge number of academic apologists for Islam in the US have become a bit weary of using the 'greater jihad is the struggle with yourself' tactic.

This is because a 'greater jihad' verse does exists in the Koran and there isn't anything that comes particularly close to such a verse.

If you drill down to the Hadiths and you sum all the verses that could be called 'greater jihad' they come to about 2% of those that call for killing infidels.
Posted by: Lord Garth   2010-11-24 10:04  

#7  
If a person creates bloodshed they are not Muslims...


The Dalai Lama just wrote Mohammed (Piss on Him) out of Islam.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2010-11-24 10:00  

#6  its true that there are bad eggs in any "religion", but the islamic religion was founded at the point of a sword, unlike any other religion mentioned.
Posted by: 746   2010-11-24 09:50  

#5  Dalai Lame-ass. Shark, jumped...again?
Posted by: Secret Asian Man   2010-11-24 08:09  

#4  true jihad was about fighting "negative emotions" within oneself.


I guess Mohammed Atta must have been a very emotional man

If a person creates bloodshed they are not Muslims


Ah, the "No True Scotsman Fallacy"

Such mischievous people are there among Hindus, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, and all religions”

Mebbe. We know how the Juice love to fly passenger planes into buildings.
Posted by: European Conservative   2010-11-24 08:02  

#3  In other news: Swatztika steadily making comeback in international art world
Posted by: Besoeker   2010-11-24 07:38  

#2  we should not generalize Islam due to few mischievous people

That's the ticket. They're not terrorists who kill people en masse, they're just naughty little boys.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia   2010-11-24 07:31  

#1  Islam Misunderstood!

Never a truer word spoken. Politicians keep calling it a religion of peace!
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2010-11-24 06:11  

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