The Dalai Lama joins Barack Obama, David Cameron, Tony Abbott, Pope Francis, and myriad other non-Muslims who know exactly how the Muslims of the Islamic State are misusing Islam. None of them have yet explained how this “misuse” of Islam became so widespread. None of them have yet explained why so many Muslims from Western countries are going to fight for the Islamic State. None of them have yet explained how the caliph Ibrahim, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, got his Ph.D in Islamic Studies without knowing anything about Islam.
“Dalai Lama condemns religious killings and says extremists ‘misuse jihad,'” Daily Mail, September 20, 2014:
Stressing on inter-religious harmony and urging all religious leaders to rise above dogmas for reaching out to everybody, Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said killing in the name of faith is ‘terrible’.
Spiritual leaders of nine major religions held discussions on the first day of the two-day, all-religion meet on ‘Diverse Spiritual Traditions in India’ at the Hyatt Regency here on Saturday.
This was a first-of-its-kind event organized by His Holiness. Speaking on the occasion, the Dalai Lama said India is the only country where religions co-exist.
Referring to Islamic terrorists resorting to violence in the name of jihad, he said jehad was being misused and the holy term connotes fighting one’s own impurities.
“Jihad combats inner destructive emotions. Everybody carries jihad in their hearts, including me,” the Dalai Lama said.
The Dalai Lama said Indian Muslims can offer lessons on Shia-Sunni harmony as Shias feel safer in India than in Pakistan….
joeb says
Well, I thought I’d seen it all, but I tell you what – I have now…
Beagle says
Nope. Like “it can’t get worse” in the Middle East, I promise you have not “seen it all” now.
Lynn says
His definition of Jihad IS right … struggling against negative thoughts and forces within yourself. Two forms … of the pen, and of the sword. Western people focus on the “of the sword” aspect which DOES refer to warfare. But the first form is the most important. I am not Muslim myself but have studied it in college and have friends who are (along with friends of many other faiths) The Delai Lama is right about another thing too … killing and persecuting people in the name of faith is terribly WRONG. Not all Muslims subscribe to the perversion of “Jihad” we’re seeing now … but those who do take the stage harming the decent people out there who are also Muslims.
Angemon says
Lynn posted:
“Two forms … of the pen, and of the sword. Western people focus on the “of the sword” aspect which DOES refer to warfare.”
Must have something to do with all those centuries of muslim aggression, I’d wager.
“But the first form is the most important.”
If a jihadi comes for my head I’ll be sure to tell him that.
“The Delai Lama is right about another thing too … killing and persecuting people in the name of faith is terribly WRONG.”
Not according to islamic orthodoxy.
“Not all Muslims subscribe to the perversion of “Jihad” we’re seeing now …”
Perversion? Didn’t you just said that one of the forms of jihad is the sword?
“but those who do take the stage harming the decent people out there who are also Muslims.”
Muslims deemed by other, more devout muslims to be hypocrites – people who claim to be muslims but engage in un-islamic behaviour for personal gain.
rev g says
Your professor was an apologist who sugar-coated islam.
Lilly says
Study a little more, Lynn, because educated Muslims use a lot of taqiya with ineducated Muslims and non-Muslims, and you fall in the trap. Read again the Quran and the sahee hadeeth, and tell me if the war is “inside” yourself, the was is “inside” only in sufism texts, and it’s the good face they want us to see, ask yourself if there’s no another face to see. The main taqiya is to say the djihad is inside, they serve it for Muslims who didn’t study their religion, and for us, western people, please, don’t say you studied islam, because you can’t find even once in the Quran and the hadiths the proof it’s an inner fight, NOT EVEN ONCE, but you have 1 000 proofs djihad is a bloody war, and the lama knows it! PLEASE READ AS MANY SAHI HADITHS YOU CAN, you will be horrified! How Muhammad killed a pregnant woman and her baby, etc… A man who kill a woman this way is a devil, and those who defend him, knowing the truth are devils.
“A blind man had a freed concubine (umm walad) who used to insult the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and say bad things about him. He told her not to do that but she did not stop, and he rebuked her but she did not heed him. One night, when she started to say bad things about the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) and insult him, he took a short sword or dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it and killed her. The following morning that was mentioned to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). He called the people together and said, “I ask by Allah the man who has done this action and I order him by my right over him that he should stand up.” The blind man stood up and said, “O Messenger of Allah, I am the one who did it; she used to insult you and say bad things about you. I forbade her, but she did not stop, and I rebuked her, but she did not give up her habit. I have two sons like pearls from her, and she was kind to me. Last night she began to insult you and say bad things about you. So I took a dagger, put it on her belly and pressed it till I killed her.”
Thereupon the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Bear witness, there is no blood money due for her.”
IT’S NOT MY INVENTION TO MAKE ISLAM LOOK BAD, IT’S REAL, IF YOU CAN ACCESS MUSLIM BOOKS, PLEASE CHECK IF I’M RIGHT OR WRONG, the hadith reference is Abu Dawud book 38 # 4348, it’s a trustworthy hadeeth and Sorry for by English.
I used to respect a lot the Dalai Lama, but now, I started to open my eyes about him. He is not demi-God or the wise man people think.
rev g says
If enough “leaders” say it’s so, we can wish it into being true!! They should join Dennis Rodman and go talk to the ISIS leaders about their misperception of islam and jihad.
Neil Jennison says
I guess most religions seek to bring out the good in people. So, from positions of ignorance the Pope and the Dalai Lama presumably think that Islam is the same.
The tragedy is that Islam is not a religion of peace, but a religion of supremacy and blind allegiance to the vicious ideas of its founder.
profitsbeard says
Mohammad would disagree with the Dalai Lama.
Islam is a religion of worldly conquest.
The Dalai should restrain himself to speaking abstractly about peace, not presumptuously about Islam.
Jaladhi says
Now this completes the circle – top Buddhist spiritual leader, Dalai Lama also says Muslims “misuse jihad”. He has forgotten tha hoarding masses jihadi Muslims massacred Buddhists along with Hindus and Sikhs and others. This is how Afghanistan was made Buddhists free. I don’t know what will take for these religious leaders to speak the truth about Islam.
Question – are these people that dumb and naive that they really believe Islam is a religion of peace and jihad’s real meaning is non-violent or they are being just PC speaking. In either case it doesn’t speak well of them!!
mortimer says
The Dalai Lama is wrong:
“Indeed, Allah has purchased from the believers their lives and their properties [in exchange] for that they will have Paradise. They FIGHT in the cause of Allah , so they KILL and are KILLED. [It is] a true promise [binding] upon Him in the Torah and the Gospel and the Qur’an. And who is truer to his covenant than Allah ? So rejoice in your transaction which you have contracted. And it is that which is the great attainment.” – Sahih International Koran
rev g says
Well, ok, but they do it peacefully, ya know?!?!?
WhatsUpDoc says
Yes in deed, Mr Lama, Muslims who wiped out Buddhists from Afghanistan misunderstood Islam. LOL
tpellow says
For Dalai Lama and co-
from Bill Warner-
” But Islamic logic is dualistic; two things can contradict each other and both are true.
“No dualistic system may be measured by one answer. This is the reason that the arguments about what constitutes the ‘real’ Islam go on and on and are never resolved. A single right answer does not exist.
“Dualistic systems can only be measured by statistics. It is futile to argue one side of the dualism is true. As an analogy, quantum mechanics always gives a statistical answer to all questions.
“For an example of using statistics, look at the question: what is the real jihad, the jihad of inner, spiritual struggle or the jihad of war? Let’s turn to Bukhari (the Hadith) for the answer, as he repeatedly speaks of jihad. In Bukhari 97% of the jihad references are about war and 3% are about the inner struggle. So the statistical answer is that jihad is 97% war and 3% inner struggle. Is jihad war? Yes—97%. Is jihad inner struggle? Yes—3%.”
-from:
http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/the-study-of-political-islam/
duh_swami says
The reason for only 3% inner struggle is because inner struggle has little positive effect.
Angemon says
His Holiness is getting it half right – one kind of jihad is striving to improve oneself. Unfortunately, it seems no one told him of the other jihad – you know, warfare to spread islamic law, the one that assures direct entrance into paradise.
livingengine says
Dalai Lama, Tibet, and Nazi Germany Collaboration.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP_IohMUWaY
“Harrer first met the 14th Dalai Lama when he was summoned to the Potala Palace and asked to make a film about iceskating, which Harrer had introduced to Tibet. Harrer built a cinema for him, with a projector run off a Jeep engine. Harrer soon became the Dalai Lama’s tutor in English, geography, and some science, and Harrer was astonished at how fast his pupil absorbed the Western world’s knowledge. A strong friendship developed between the two that would last the rest of their lives.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Harrer
MBES says
All respect I had for the current Dalai Lama went out the window when he appeared as a guest/judge on Australia’s version of the TV show “Master Chef”.
Any gravitas accorded to his opinions should be withheld.
bernie says
The Dalai Lama is apparently good friends with boxing legend Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay), so I doubt that he would openly criticize Islam is a harsh way.
Samu Saad says
What Pope Francis said is in no way tantamount to what these clowns say.
joeblough says
I suppose that none of these eminences knows that spirituality has a dark side too.
This is an odd thing because all of their traditional literature and art shows devils and demons and other dark spirits.
I think it was CS Lewis, but it might have been Mark Twain or even Ambrose Bierce who said that Satan’s greatest deception was convincing humanity that he didn’t exist.
The death cult of Islam is a form of dark spirituality.
It has spiritual force all right. But not the good kind.
paddy says
I don’t know why he couldn’t just say that the whole jewish, christian, islamic belief in mono-theism is bullshit.
Mirren10 says
”I think it was CS Lewis, but it might have been Mark Twain or even Ambrose Bierce who said that Satan’s greatest deception was convincing humanity that he didn’t exist”
I think it was Lewis, in The Screwtape Letters.
Joan says
More from Bill Warner on the Dalai Lama: “The Dhimmi Dalai Lama”
http://www.politicalislam.com/blog/the-dhimmi-dalai-lama
john Daniel. says
Even after reading this comment on an article at ….
• “Winds Of Jihad” By SheikYerMami
• http://sheikyermami.com/all-ah-the-things-we-must-not-do/#comment-1698894
…. it did NOT explain The Why (would Western Politicians do THIS to their own Citizens).
This comment could explain why Western non-Muhammadans have to change – Their Politicians – so the West can be Purged of Muhammadans.
QUOTE
DP111 September 19, 2014 at 11:16 am
“Suppose we went the route of categorizing Islam as not a religion, but a cult of murder and violence against all non-Muslims. Will that be useful? It can only be useful if parliament passed a law prohibiting the practice of Islam, or the banishment of Muslims from Australia.”
“The above is unlikely to happen, and if by some oddity did, Australia(or any Western state), would be vilified by the whole world. It would also lead to serious internal disorder.”
“Now consider a more insidious approach. After each horrendous Jihadi act, politicians and the media went out of their way to insist that Islam is the religion of peace, that the Jihadis were a tiny minority, and most important of all, Jihadis had totally misinterpreted the koran.”
“Over the years everyone will know that the official line is a lie, promulgated for geo-strategic and political reasons. More important though, it snookers Muslims and their spokesmen. They can hardly claim that the politicians and the MSM are wrong. And if any Muslim, such as abu Qatada or Anjem Chaudary claimed otherwise, the media could dismiss them as fanatics.”
“The advantage of the above tactic is that when we need to intervene within, or in any Islamic nation, we can always claim to be doing so to protect authentic and peaceful Islam, by destroying those who are mis-understanders of Islam (which we are doing). This policy ties the hands of Muslim in the West, as they have already acquiesced to the Western policy directive that Islam is a peaceful religion. All they can now do is to state that such interventions only increase the strength of Jihadis.”
“Another important reason for our present policy is that it allows us to intervene in Muslim countries without the op[position of the whole Muslim world. In fact we can use one Islamic nation as a base to intervene in another adjacent Islamic nation.”
“There are a few disadvantages of this policy, but it in the main it is a reasonably correct one. Alterations can always be made with time.”
UNQUOTE
Monkey Mind says
The Dalai Lama is an extremist radical who does not understand the true Buddhist teachings. However the majority of moderate Buddhists know that Islamic State is Islamic and that its adherents are indeed following the most perfect example of the Prophet. So please do not condemn us moderate Buddhists because of one crazy misguided old man. Buddhism is a religion of PEACE! Also I believe the Chinese have cancelled the Dalai Lama’s Tibetan passport so he will be unable to return to Tibet to radicalise others and commit acts of mass atrocity.