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2006-04-16 International-UN-NGOs

Dalai Lama Seeks to Improve Islam's Image

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Posted by lotp 2006-04-16 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 He loves to wag his tongue for publicity with his selective rose garden worldview without regard for reality. As if a bad creed would simply just transform itself into a good one on account of that.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 01:29|| 2006-04-16 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Switching sides on meMr Dali?

UnWise

Posted by newc">newc 2006-04-16 02:01|| 2006-04-16 02:01|| Front Page Top

#3 By opening his mouth he's making the world a more dangerous place. Like opening gates.

What was that historical event when some Buddhists opened the gate of a besieged city in Central Asia around the time of Tamerlane because they fell for the Taquiyah and were all slaightered? It is hard copy- in books somehere. Buti can't seem to find a (free) URL on to this event.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 04:31|| 2006-04-16 04:31|| Front Page Top

#4 Sorry Dalai, Isalm pretty much made the American people pissed. Then Isalm started messing with are bookstores "Borders" and the ultimate sin censered "South Park" now Americans are going to start to hate.

Posted by djohn66 2006-04-16 09:09|| 2006-04-16 09:09|| Front Page Top

#5 Buddhism was pretty much exterminated in the land of its birth when the islamic hordes invaded India.

The muslim invaders destroyed the buddhist monasteries and temples and killed all the monks.

Millions ended up as slaves. Millions were killed.

Now most people think the Buddha - the Indian prince Siddhartha Gautama - was the fat grinning chinese man they see in statues

The Dalai Lama needs to go to Bamiyan, where the peace loving muslims destroyed the thousand year old statues of the Buddha, in an attempt to erase the history of buddhism in the area.

He needs to go to Sindh province and visit the very first mosque on the Indian subcontinent where archeological excavation has revealed a layer of human bones in the foundations - the remains of the hindus and buddhists who were exterminated.

He should read the accounts written by the muslim invaders where they boast of killing.

The Bahmani sultans in central India, made it a rule to kill 100 000 Hindus a year. They were quite proud of this.

Timur killed 100 000 hindus in ONE day.

To quote Francois Gautier ...

"The historian Koenraad Elst quotes Professor K.S. Lal's "Growth of Muslim population in India", who writes that according to his calculations, the Hindu population decreased by 8O million between the year 1000 and 1525."

80 million killed over a period of 500 years...

Islam - the religion of peace (c)

Posted by john 2006-04-16 09:50|| 2006-04-16 09:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Yup. The loss of integrity of South Park is my tipping point. Now I'm mad. Actually, furious at the cave-in by SP to dhimmitude. Without the muslim pokes, the rest becomes prejudice, not parody. The muzzies killed Kenny and I'm ticked.

Posted by Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-04-16 09:50|| 2006-04-16 09:50|| Front Page Top

#7 Get used to it. Islam will continue to grow. The best we can hope for is that we can kill the Wahabbi beast and dry up the oil money from rich spoiled brats with a bad sense of entitlement and guilt. Yesterday those types supported communism or nazism. Today they support Scientology or Jihad; Tomorrow...who knows. The world remains unchanged.

Islam is aggressively offering what Western culture no longer offers - something beyond the cult of self. Let's face it, if they didn't go around blowing themselves up and chopping people's heads off, it wouldn't bother us that people were finding peace and fellowship through their mosque.

As for me, today is a special day to remember the real message, tried and true, about HOW to live in peace and prosperity. Hope, faith, charity, forgiveness. Oh yeah, the world gets in the way and there is always some small man somewhere promoting one type of Jihad or another, but for the rest of us - we can make the world a better place, neighbor to neighbor ...one person at a time.

Posted by 2b 2006-04-16 10:16|| 2006-04-16 10:16|| Front Page Top

#8 "Dalai Lama Seeks to Improve Islam's Image"

Feeding the hand that bites him.

Again.

Color me unimpressed.

Posted by Barbara Skolaut"> Barbara Skolaut 2006-04-16 12:53|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/page/15bk1/Home_Page.html] 2006-04-16 12:53|| Front Page Top

#9 Expect the DL to continue to do so. On the way to enlightenment by cultivation you have to be an idiot first and make others idiots? I don't think the Buddha taught that sort of idiotarian PC'ness.

John Lindh Walker's mother is/was a Buddhist but apparently none of the enlightenment rubs off to her son. His father, a Christian.

Perhaps the DL is actually somewhat narcissistic in implying that he actually can positively influence the uncompromising dogmas of islam.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 14:07|| 2006-04-16 14:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Buddhism is a path to inner peace, not a path to social stability. Too bad Buddhists don't understand this.

Posted by Perfessor 2006-04-16 15:48|| 2006-04-16 15:48|| Front Page Top

#11 The DL is the one who don't understand the limit of the scope of his belief system(wrt the social situation). If Buddhist don't understand this well enough, he ain't helping either.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 16:31|| 2006-04-16 16:31|| Front Page Top

#12 The DL has a really sterling record in helping his native land of Tibet get off the Chicom yoke. Tibet will not be free until the Chicoms are taken from power in China, period.

Islam is just a death cult. I would imagine that the majority of Muslims are just plain folks that want the same things as you and me. Most Muslim leadership wants submission. I would imagine that the so-called good Muslims are really bad Muslims in the eyes of the religious leadership. It is a twisted, convoluted thing. The DL must realize that, though he can accommodate Islam, Islam has no provision of accommodation with him or Bhuddism.

But, hey, pal around with celebreties and Hollywood stars. Knock yourself out. The DL is irrelevant.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2006-04-16 17:16|| 2006-04-16 17:16|| Front Page Top

#13 "..the majority of Muslims are just plain folks that want the same things as you and me..."

They do but the way they use to get it sometimes includes the baser of methods used, like ascribing to themselves privileges at the wide expense of others.

IOW, they still effectively impose, through complicity, the Dhimmitude ideology no matter if it's lite. M'sia is a good example of encroaching hegemony. And its slide in International competiveness slide also approaches in tandem as if by Karma. And denial is their culture. Always emphasis on image, little of substance by comparision.

Posted by Duh! 2006-04-16 18:54|| 2006-04-16 18:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Me, I'm not taking a position on this until I hear from Richard Gere.

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-04-16 23:00|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2006-04-16 23:00|| Front Page Top

#15 I noticed a while ago that DL is soooo... dalai lame.

Posted by zazz 2006-04-16 23:27|| 2006-04-16 23:27|| Front Page Top

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