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Hugh Fitzgerald: The Dalai Lama: In Every Sense, On Islam He’s All Over the Map

Sep 20, 2016 12:50 am By Hugh Fitzgerald

In 2008, the Dalai Lama said what lots of Western leaders have been saying about Islam. He said “it was wrong, it was entirely unfair,” to call Islam a violent religion.” But six years later, in September 2014, at a conference of religious leaders he had organized, the Dalai Lama seemed to modify his earlier brisk dismissal of any connection between Islam and violence, when he said that “killing in the name of faith is terrible.” The implication was clear: some people [Muslims] were killing in the name of faith, and while that was “terrible,” it was no longer “entirely unfair” to link some Muslims to such violence. Everyone understood what adherents of what faith he must have intended to set straight about their own faith. At least he recognized that some people “claimed” to be acting violently in accordance with the texts and teachings of their religion, even if those people were “wrong.”

Then he showed he was still determined to give Islam a pass, adding in the same speech that “jihad was being misused and the term connotes fighting one’s own impurities.” He clearly had been reading too much Karen Armstrong. And still worse was to follow: “Jihad combats inner destructive emotions. Everybody carries jihad in their hearts, including me.”

Is it possible that the Dalai Lama really does not know by this point how Muslims understand “Jihad,” or with what murderous meaning the Qur’an endows that word? Perhaps he really doesn’t know — one more case of willful ignorance. Or perhaps he thinks it better for all concerned to play the game of Let’s Pretend in discussing what Jihad means, in the hope that Muslims will in time convince themselves that “Jihad” really is all about an inner struggle. We’re used to this by now; it’s what we’ve seen from other world leaders — Barack Obama (“the true peaceful nature of Islam”), Tony Blair (the Islamic State’s ideology is “based in a complete perversion of the proper faith of Islam”), Pope Francis (“Islam is a religion of peace”) – whenever they pontificate about Islam, a faith which they so maddeningly presume to know so much about.

In fact, the prominent Syrian cleric Ramadan al-Buti complained that when Westerners describe Islam as a “religion of peace,” they are trying not to defend Islam but to trick Muslims into believing it is peaceful, and then – horribile dictu — into giving up the real doctrine of Jihad for that ludicrous “inner struggle” business. Of course Islam is about violence and war, said the truth-telling Ramadan Al-Buti. But why believe a prominent Muslim cleric about Islam, when there are so many non-Musilms ready to tell us what it’s all about?

At the same gathering, the Dalai Lama insisted that “India is the only country where different religions have been able to co-exist.” This was a bizarre remark, but the Dalai Lama is given to strange remarks. Could he have forgotten that in every country in the Western world, people of different confessions co-exist peacefully? Or is it that he just doesn’t want to say anything in praise of the West, because that would invite comparison of how Muslim states treat non-Muslims (badly) with how the non-Muslim West treats Muslims (very generously)?

Then the Dalai Lama said that Indian Muslims can offer lessons on Shia-Sunni harmony, as Shias feel safer in India than in Pakistan. He’s right – they do feel safer in India. But he’s wrong about the reason. It’s not that Indian Muslims can “offer lessons” on Sunni-Shia harmony to Muslims in Pakistan, which might hold out hope of lessening intra-Islamic hostilities.The sects remain just as ideologically at odds in India as in Pakistan. It’s just that the Indian government, in which Hindus predominate, can “offer lessons” to the government of Pakistan, in ways to assure people of different sects that they can live in relative security, because the police and army will dampen down communal violence. It’s not that the Muslims in India are a different, less violent breed than their coreligionists in Pakistan, but that in India the potential for violence can be held in check.

The next time the Dalai Lama mentioned Islam was at a gathering of his followers from 27 countries. On January 31, 2015, he said that “though terrorism has emerged as a global problem,” it should not be associated with Islam, as “Muslims were neither terrorist nor its sponsorer [sic].” No one had the bad taste to remind him of the nearly 25,000 terrorist attacks carried out by Muslims since 9/11; no one at the meeting jogged his memory with mention of Charlie Hebdo, Hyper Cacher, Bataclan, Magnanville, Nice, London busses and metro stations, Lee Rigby, the Atocha station in Madrid, Theo van Gogh’s murder in Amsterdam, or the attacks at Fort Hood, Boston,San Bernardino, Chattanooga, Orlando.

Like Pope Francis, who now says “equating Islam with violence is wrong” and just this past summer insisted again, astoundingly, that “all religions want peace,” the Dalai Lama is a “spiritual leader” who doesn’t want to call into conceivable question other faiths. All religions are good; no religion, rightly understood, can possibly countenance violence. Repeat ad libitum.

He offers, instead, treacly pieties, insisting that no religion could possibly be responsible for any violence or aggression by its adherents. His worldview cannot accommodate the real Islam, so he has chosen to believe in a sanitized, even imaginary, version of the faith.

Yet the Dalai Lama has also shown signs of justified worry. He has noticed that the migrants flowing into Europe have been a source of great anxiety and disruption, and this past May, in an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, he surprised many when he forthrightly said: “Europe, for example Germany, cannot [that is, must not] become an Arab country. Germany is Germany.” And “from a moral point of view too, I think the refugees should only be admitted temporarily. The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries.”

This seemed to be a welcome volte-face from the pollyannish pronouncements of the past. Of course, one should notice that he said Germany “cannot become an Arab country,” rather than saying that Germany “cannot become a Muslim country.” It’s as if he still couldn’t bring himself to recognize that it is the faith of Islam, and not the ethnicity of some of its Believers, that makes Muslims permanently hostile to non-Muslims, and unable to integrate into their societies, that is, into Europe. But he certainly appeared to be suggesting that the migrants, almost all of them Muslims, should not be allowed to remain and transform the countries which had so generously admitted them, but those migrants should eventually be sent back to “help rebuild their countries.” It was a welcome display of common sense. He appeared to recognize the danger of letting “Arab” (i.e., Muslim) migrants stay, and that a policy of sending them home after they had acquired skills useful in rebuilding their own countries, was morally justified. Some might say — you and I, for example — that it would have been morally justified to send them right back, without that training: the Western world owes the world’s Muslims exactly nothing.

But then, in a visit to Paris in September, the Dalai Lama called for entering into talks – a “dialogue”? – with the Islamic State so as to “end bloodshed in Syria and Iraq,” which showed a complete misunderstanding of the Islamic State. Its fighters are determined to carry on without letup against those it considers — not just Christians and Jews, Hindus and Buddhists, but also Shi’ites and even insufficiently-fanatical Muslims — to be Infidels. Not dialogue, but total destruction, is the only way to deal with the current Islamic State. But even that will not end the threat, because the ideology on which ISIS rests cannot be destroyed, which means that new recruits to the cause, and new Islamic States, will keep appearing. The Dalai Lama’s “dialogue” with ISIS is a fantasy solution, born of the despair of someone who doesn’t know what else to suggest.

In the same speech, the Dalai Lama also repeated that “religion is never a justification for killing,” when Islam – see the Qur’an, see the Hadith – overflows with justifications for the killing of insubmissive Infidels. And the Muslim killers do justify their killings, being careful to cite chapter and verse, from the Qur’an, or to adduce evidence from the life of Muhammad as recorded in the Hadith, that lend textual support to their every act.

Given a chance by an interviewer to repeat his remarks about there being too many migrants in Europe,and that Germany should not “become Arab,” the Dalai Lama refused to do so, and was careful, during that press conference on September 13, not to repeat those words. He limited his response to discussing the need for a timely welcome of the refugees: “’In the present moment, it is essential to open the doors and welcome those who are escaping the danger and the unlivable conditions in their own countries. It is just as essential to provide the necessary facilities for the education of their children and the professional training for older students. In effect, countries have a duty to welcome those who flee from difficulties and to give them every possibility of returning to their own countries. The main idea is not to send these refugees back, but to provide them with the kind of training that will enable them to reconstruct their own countries.’ As for the question of European or Arab identity, the Dalai Lama thinks that it will take a century to figure out such questions of identity because, he said we are headed toward a situation where we will all be, mainly, citizens of the world. A world that by its very nature will be more and more global. The question of boundaries will be different. Each person should be able to live at that place on the planet where he can best fulfill his aspirations.”

What the Dalai Lama sees as a wonderful new future, where anyone can choose wherever on the globe he wishes to settle, would be a nightmare for the advanced West. Swamped by peoples from the places that are least desirable to live in, all of them flooding in to live in the places deemed most desirable, it would be akin to the current Muslim migration into Europe, but even more devastating in its size. The hope he expresses that each person will be able to live in “that place on the planet that seems the most appropriate to his aspirations” put me in mind of that prescient work from 1973 by Jean Raspail, The Camp of the Saints. That book is a novel about the mass movement of populations from the Third to the First World, and its consequences. Wikipedia sums up this dystopian novel thus:

In Calcutta, India, the Belgian government announces a policy in which Indian babies will be adopted and raised in Belgium. The policy is reversed after the Belgian consulate is inundated with poverty-stricken parents eager to give up their infant children.”

An Indian “wise man” then rallies the masses to make an exodus to live in Europe. Most of the story centers on the French Riviera,, where almost no one remains except for the military and a few civilians, including a retired professor who has been watching the huge fleet of run-down freighters approaching the French coast.

The story alternates between the French reaction to the mass immigration and the attitude of the immigrants. They have no desire to assimilate into French culture but want the goods that are in short supply in their native India. Although the novel focuses on France, the rest of the West shares its fate.

Near the end of the story the mayor of New York City is made to share Gracie Mansion with three families from Harlem, the Queen of the United Kingdom must agree to have her son marry a Pakistani woman, and only one drunken Soviet soldier stands in the way of thousands of Chinese people as they swarm into Siberia. The one holdout until the end of the novel is Switzerland, but by then international pressure isolating it as a rogue state for not opening its borders forces it to capitulate.

Should such a mass migration come to pass, which is what the Dalai Lama seems not just to countenance but to approve of (“Each person should be able to live at that place on the planet where he can best fulfill his aspirations”), it is the West that will be inundated, and it is in the West where the very idea of the nation-state, of a shared national history and culture, would dissolve in this flood-tide of desperate humanity; the ties of nationhood, the tug of patriotism, the little loyalties whose sum is a society, would disappear; every place would be available to individuals from everywhere, to settle where they list, untethered to any steadying national traditions. The motto of this future world will be the innocent idiocy of “people-should-be-allowed-to-settle-wherever-they-want.” Something like that undergirds the inability of Western leaders, with some honorable exceptions, to right now flatly refuse to admit Muslim migrants. Where did this supposed duty to Muslims come from? Should the Dalai Lama’s vision (of people moving wherever they want) come to pass, the future will belong to those who, in the midst of this breaking of nations, still consider themselves to belong to a supranational community, or Umma, of fervent believers in what is not only a religion but also a complete politics – that is, the world’s Muslims.

We are still only at the level of immigration of a few million into the advanced West. Imagine what things will look like if tens or hundreds of millions got on boats, in Camp-of-the-Saints style, and headed to Europe, a prospect that the Dalai Lama, in his latest comments, appears to regard with equanimity. Perhaps he’s just a little too “spiritual” for the real world’s own good.

If you are from Calcutta or Cairo or Cuzco or the Congo, you will certainly find the Dalai Lama’s notion of everyone being allowed to settle anywhere attractive. But if you aren’t, if you are one of those who doesn’t want to leave the West, your country, your culture, and don’t want, either, to see your own culture transformed by those who have neither the ability nor the desire to integrate, but instead appear satisfied to batten on the benefits the indigenes so generously provide, (this is not so different from the reality being created by Muslim migrants in Europe today), the Dalai Lama’s suggestion is absolutely hair-raising.

The Dalai Lama once insisted that migrants to Europe must be trained and then sent home, so that European countries would not be transformed, and he now claims that everyone should be allowed to settle anywhere, which would, of course, mean the destruction of the civilized world. And just last Thursday, he told the European Parliament that “‘Muslim terrorist’: That wording is wrong.”

“Any person who wants to indulge in violence is no longer a genuine Buddhist or genuine Muslim, because it is a Muslim teaching that once you are involved in bloodshed, actually you are no longer a genuine practitioner of Islam,” the Dalai Lama said.

“All major religious traditions carry the same message: a message of love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment, self-discipline — all religious traditions,” he continued.

This is arrant nonsense. It is presumptuous of the Dalai Lama to pontificate about Islam, about which he apparently knows so little. And when he makes remarks like these, he – this spiritual leader whom everyone loves to listen to as he crisscrosses the globe dispensing wisdom – shows himself to be both stupid, and cruel to a Western world that cannot bear too much more of this dangerous confusion.

Still, let’s give him one more chance, given that he once recognized the danger of Germany becoming “Arab” and even suggested sending migrants back.

We’d all like to know, crossing our fingers: will the real Dalai Lama please stand up?

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  1. Eric Jones says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 2:21 am

    With all due respect to the Dalai Lama. He himself is the leader of a theocratic state in exile. China invaded Tibet and has done many things to destroy Tibetan culture history and people. Thus his statement ‘people should live where they can achieve their highest aspirations.’ i am sure that over time the Dalai Lama will learn more about Muslim supremacy. Tibet is too remote for the jihaddi’s to venture to.

    Before the Chinese invasion Tibet was ruled by Tibetan Buddhist monks and land owners. They had a cast system which allowed for slavery. I do not know to what degree this caste system is still practised in Tibetan culture if at all these days.

    Lets see how time and events modify the Dalai Lamas’s views.

    Eric

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 5:44 pm

      Tibet is too remote for the jihaddi’s to venture to.

      Oh not so quick. The hairy ones will get there in time. They have bigger fish to fry right now. But the belief system calls for *total* world takeover; in the end stage of the process, no exceptions wlll be made. Moslems don’t like exceptions, except of course when they’re made to accommodate them.

  2. Don McKellar says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 2:34 am

    The Dalai Lama is a man who has never had to work a day in his life. Like an over-hyped child star, he was picked out from the crowd and claimed to have the completely ludicrous and anti-science gift of being a “reincarnation” of a deity. But unlike an over-hyped child star, he never had to grow up and become an adult and face the fact that he is nothing special. He cannot ever be anything as an adult but completely full of shit. That’s all he is because that is all he can be. He is based on nothing. He earned nothing. He is nothing. His claim to fame is based on complete delusion and nonsense. He is elevated to his “station in life” by complete gobbily-gook.

    Observing and considering these facts and inescapable conclusions, how could he have anything but the politically correct versions of Islam that shift with any given wind? He is a joke. In many ways, horrible as it is to contemplate, the evil leaders of China are actually RIGHT and just about something for once. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

    • Mazo says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 3:30 am

      Herp derp

      http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/26/cruz-is-correct-trump-supported-hillarys-libya-debacle/

      http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trump-claims-he-didnt-support-libya-intervention-but-he-did

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/trumps-post-advocating-for-intervention-in-libya-is-still-on

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/well-actually

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/heres-some-more-footage-showing-trump-pushed-for-egypt-libya

      https://www.buzzfeed.com/danielwagner/how-trump-tried-to-get-qaddafis-cash

      http://www.mediaite.com/online/donald-trump-bashes-libya-intervention-which-he-strongly-advocated-for-in-2011/

      • Mirren10 says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 10:39 am

        What does any of that have to do with the Dalai Lama ?

        You really are an idiot, Mazo.

      • Jay Boo says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 10:51 am

        Mazo, Should’t you be off celebrating the Eid al-Ghadeer, and honoring Islam’s most revered figure, Imam, Ali ibn Abi Talib. the discoverer of Muhammad’s magic sorcerer’s black stone?

        • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

          Sep 20, 2016 at 5:47 pm

          Do I smell a whiff of Islamophobic disrespect here? Where’s the reference here to Caliph Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi? Right now the Caliph is the most revered Moslem.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 9:17 pm

        How does Mazo’s copious spam contradict–or even address–anything Don McKellar said?

        • Mark Swan says

          Sep 21, 2016 at 3:23 am

          I don’t know, but what Don McKellar said was pretty good, I thought.

  3. CHAS. S says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 2:42 am

    HE’S LOST HIS MIND….ITS THAT SIMPLE.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:41 am

      I think Don McKellar got it right. He’s a fool, like the politicians. Just for different reasons.

      • Mark Swan says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 3:29 am

        Yep, a reincarnated man, apparently that reincarnated stuff has side effects.

      • Westman says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 9:28 am

        He is a politician, of course, and the citizens of the West are the babies. When one coos at a baby, it doesn’t have to make sense. What would you like to hear from dear old grampa?

  4. particolor says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 2:51 am

    For God sake He doesn’t want a Fatwa taken out on him 🙁

    • particolor says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 2:53 am

      But I wont tell him we have all got one on us for not being a Mooselum !! 🙁

  5. Champ says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 3:12 am

    Thank you Hugh great essay on the Lama …and that picture’s so funny he looks like he’s in la-la-land, lol!

  6. Mazo says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 3:13 am

    Baltis in Pakistan are descendants of Tibetan Buddhists who converted and are now Shia Muslims.

    The “Uyghur” Sufi Muslim leader Afaq Khoja was kicked out in a power struggle against his monarch the Chagataid Khan in the Tarim Basin . Afaq Khoja went to the 5th Dalai Lama and asked him to bring him to power over the Chagatai Muslims.

    The 5th Dalai Lama blessed the Dzungar Oirat Buddhists invasion of the Muslim Chagatai Khanate in 1680 and the Dzungars installed Afaq Khoja as the puppet ruler.

    The Dzungars extracted heavy taxes from the “Uyghur” Muslims of the Tarim Basin and raped “Uyghur” women. The Dzungars attacked Outer Mongolia and forced Outer Mongols to flee into the territtories of the Qing dynasty where the Outer Mongols submitted to Qing rule. The Dzungars went to war against the Qing. The Uyghurs then started begging for the Qing to free them from the Dzungars and promised to submit to Qing rule. The Dzungar Lamaist Buddhists seized control of Tibet, the center of Lamaist Buddhism.

    The Qing defeated the Dzungar empire and acquired all the Dzungar territories in the process. The Qing defeated the Dzungars in Tibet and ousted their puppet Dalai Lama, and captured the Uyghur populated Tarim Basin and Dzungaria from the Dzungars. This is how modern China aquired its borders. The Dalai Lamas were installed into power by the Qing again and the vote by golden urn was accepted.

    In 1904 Britain invaded Tibet and machine gunnes thousands of Tibetan soldiers to death on the battlefield.

    In response, one year later in 1905 the Tibetan Buddhist Lamas of Batang rose up in an anti foreign rebellion and slaughtered, tortured and beheaded French Catholic missionaries like Dubenard and slaughtered Tibetan converts to Catholicism. The Tibetan Lamas were angered at the British desecration of Lhasa and lashed out at the nearest white men who they could strike. The 13th Dalai Lama sent soldiers to kill converts to Christianity out of fury at the British invasion.

    In 1924, the 9th Panchen Lama had a dispute against the 13th Dalai Lama who wanted to seize his assets. The 9th Panchen Lama fled Tibet and defected to the Republic of China.

    In 1932, the 13th Dalai Lama tried invading Qinghai province of the Republic of China.

    The Muslim Governor of Qinghai province Ma Bufang and his Hui and Salar Muslim officered army which included both Muslims and Qinghai Tibetans defeated and crushed the Lhasa Tibetans on the battlefield and the 13th Dalai Lama was forced to sue for peace and surrender territory.

    In 1934 the current 14th Dalai Lama was chosen in Qinghai where he was born to a Chinese speaking Tibetan family and did not know how to speak a word of Tibetan. Ma Bufang made the Tibetans pay several hundred thousand silver dollars to allow him to get to Lhasa.

    Kazakh Muslim refugees including women and children fled from Soviet oppression to China. The Kazakhs passed through Xinjiang and tried crossing through Tibet under the 14th Dalai Lama’s rule. The Lhasa Tibetan soldiers massacred the Kazakh refugees and looted their valuables. Kazakh survivors straggled through until they reached British India and sought asylum there.

    In 1937 the 9th Panchen Lama died. His officials chose the 10th Panchen Lama Choekyi Gyaltsen while the 14th Dalai Lama chose a rival candidate. The Muslim Governor of Qinghai Ma Bufang protected and patronized the 10th Panchen Lama Choekyi Gyaltsen until 1949 when the Communists took over.

    Ma Bufang fled to Egypt and Saudi Arabia where he was appointed by the Republic of China as the first Republic of China Ambassador to Saudi Arabia. Ma Bufang was an Allied war hero of World War II and he sent his own Muslim soldiers and Qinghai Tibetan soldiers against the Japanese where they crushed the Japanese on the battlefield. Ma Bufang’s Muslim and Qinghai Tibetan conscripts fought sanguine bloody battles against the independent Ngoloks (Goloks) of Labrang monastery. A Christian missionary reacted with glee and happiness in 1921 during a mass slaughter of Golok men, women and children.

    The 14th Dalai Lama’s Lhasa Tibetan troops murdered the American CIA agent Douglas MacKiernan in 1950 because the dunce decided to dress up like a Kazakh, making him the first CIA agent to die in the field.

    The 10th Panchen Lama defected to the Communists in 1949. In 1954 the 14th Dalai Lama met with him and admitted that he fucked up big time and that his candidate was the false candidate and acknowledged Choekyi Gyaltsen as the true 10th Panchen Lama.

    In 1959 the 14th Dalai Lama fled to India while the 10th Panchen Lama remained and pledged his alleigance to the Communists.

    In 1989 the 10th Panchen Lama died. Again, the 10th Panchen Lama’s officials and associates selected Gyaincain Norbu as 11th Panchen Lama while the 14th Dalai Lama’s people selected Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as 11th Panchen Lama leading to the current dispute.

    Some Han and Tibetan villages in Qinghai and Gansu converted to Islam because of their Hui, Dongxiang and Salar Muslim neighbors and some Muslims marry Tibetan wives like the Salar war hero Han Youwen.

    Current sectarian violence in Tibet, Qinghai and Gansu consists of Tibetan Buddhists attacking Muslims from Hui, Salar, and Dongxiang ethnicities because they are resentful of commercial business success of Hui merchants and because some people are still pissed about things that happened 80 years ago with Ma Bufang.

    Tibetan Buddhists do not engage in sectarian violence against Tibetan speaking Kachee Muslims who lived alongside them in Lhasa for centuries.

    Western imperialism like the 1904 invasion has caused countless bloodshed and sectarian strife for Tibetans.

    • Baucent says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 5:44 am

      So, do you like sport?

    • al norm says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 6:53 am

      Excellent Thank you. The Uighur have quite a community in Saudi Arabia. They came from the Uighurs who went on the Hajj and stayed after the Chinese Communist took Xinjiang.
      IMO, they will be the next ISIS supporters. Already they have made a few attacks in Thailand and China. ISIS will have the choice of a number of places to wait up until they (ISIS) take Mecca. Again IMO – their real aim.
      Libya/ Mali will get too hot for them. They can then move part of their operations to Central Asia. Also South Asia is opening up.
      This is just the start.

      • Mazo says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 12:53 pm

        Ma Bufang and Qinghai Muslims are not Uyghur. They are Hui and Salar. There is a Hui community in Saudi Arabia founded by Ma Bufang. They don’t live with the Uyghur community there. Ma was the Ambassador of the Republic of China to Saudi Arabia.

    • Wellington says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 1:23 pm

      “Western imperialism like the 1904 invasion…..”

      Ah, yes indeed, Western imperialism the culprit again. Fits the talking points of the Left and Muslims. Of course, Muslim imperialism was different. It was kind and noble, peaceful and tolerant. In fact, it wasn’t really imperialism at all but just a kind of spreading of the true faith which is Islam. Blah, blah, blah.

      As for the rest of your almost unreadable litany of information (an Almanac has more unity and style to it than your posts), how is virtually any of it germane to the fact that just since 9/11 there have been over 29,000 documented Islamic terrorist attacks worldwide, never mind the tens of thousands of such intended attacks that didn’t come off because they were thwarted by various security services worldwide?

      Mirren is right, Mazo. You are an idiot. And an extra tedious idiot at that.

      • Kepha says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 8:55 pm

        Actually, Mazo’s bit on the Qing (Manchu) wars with the Dzungars (a Lama Buddhist Mongol people) was a fairly good outline of how the Qing dynasty established its western borders. He is also right that Hui (who are seen simply as Muslim Han Chinese in Taiwan) and Salar Muslims differ greatly with their Uighur coreligionists in their relationship to the Chinese state. There is indeed some Hui and Salar dissidence, but it involves calls for greater religious liberty within the context of the Chinese state, not separatism. In Taiwan, the small Hui community, being mostly made up of ex-military families (and sometimes hereditarily military families, it seems) is marked by a very strong (non-Communist) Chinese patriotism.
        ,
        I’m not pro-Islam, and I have no soft spot for the Chinese Communist Party (the last, best hope for 20th century totalitarianism). However, I have a lifelong interest in Far Eastern history, some Chinese connections, and an interest in accurate reporting.

        • Mazo says

          Sep 20, 2016 at 9:40 pm

          There are “Uyghurs”, Inner Mongols, and Khamba Tibetans in Taiwan who opposed separatism.

          “Uyghur” Yulbars Khan fled Xinjiang through Tibet where he had a nasty run in with Lhasa Tibetan troops who tried to kill him like they did to Douglas MacKiernan. Yulbars Khan escaped and fled to Taiwan. He was appointed as de jure Governor of Xinjiang in absentia by the KMT. There were several other “Uyghur” KMT members with him who fled to Taiwan.

          There are “Uyghur” separatist pamphlets in the 1960s printed by associates of Muhamnad Amin Bughra denouncing Yulbars Khan as a collaborater with the KMT and a traitor to “Turkestani” Muslims. These separatists denounced the KMT government in Taiwan. Bughra didn’t use the word “Uyghur” himself because he was against the Soviet given name.. These pamphlets were circulated in Muddle Eastern countries

          Khampa Tibetans under Pandatsang Rapga’s Tibet Improvement Party and the Khampa supported Red Hat Lamaist sect worked with the KMT against the 14th Dalai Lama and the Lhasa Tibetans. Khampa Tibetans fled to Taiwan with the KMT and support one China policy and were against independence. They served as de jure representatives for Tibet region in the Taipei based National Assembly. The Dalai Lama ignores their existence and pretend they don’t exist to avoid giving them media attention.

          There are Inner Mongol Lamaist clerics who fled to Taiwan.

          All these “Uyghurs”, Tibetans and Inner Mongols on Taiwan were anti separatist and supported unity. The separatist “Uyghurs” fled to the Middle East and Soviet Union and separatist Tibetans went to India.

          India is holding historuc Tibetan lands, Ladakh and Sikkim. The 5th Dalai Lama fought a war against the Mughal Muslims in India to retake Tibetan Buddhist Ladakh which is now in Indian hands. He regarded it as rightful Tibetan land.

          The current 14th Dalai Lama does not share or does not dare to express the same views on Ladakh as the 5th to his Indian hosts. He doesn’t date say it of Sikkim or Baltistan either because India claims it.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 9:25 pm

      More pointless sand-throwing from Mazo…

  7. Louise M. says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 3:46 am

    I suppose SO MUCH pressure must be put on him. He is devoted to his people….he may have to think twice before he speaks, because of them…

    My opinion on this planned Muslim invasion is made.
    No religious leader, even one I respect, can blind me to the plain facts !

  8. CPR says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 3:48 am

    Re: At the same gathering, the Dalai Lama insisted that “India is the only country where different religions have been able to co-exist.” My G-d, is this idiot for real? Muslims have slaughtered an estimated 80 million people (peaceful Hindus) in India. It’s the biggest genocide in world history. Pakistan ang Bangladesh were literally created on either side of India because those areas were so ride with Mus. violence that India just decided to essentially give them away, or better yet to amputate them like gangrenous limbs.
    Right now the world has: a Muslim U.S. Prez, a communist NYC mayor, a Muslim London mayor, a Marxist Dalai Lama, a Marxist (& likely Muslim) PM of Canada, self-hating whites leading Sweden, socialists somewhat leading Greece, and a stealth leftist operative leading Germany. Western culture has about a century left.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 9:26 pm

      All true, CPR. And the Muslim violence there continues. Remember Mumbai?

  9. Lawrence says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 4:16 am

    The Dalai Lama’s statements on Islam utterly discredit him, completely. He gets this image that he is so wise, solely based on the positive image that Tibet and Buddhism have in the West, much of that is deserved, but then the mistake is made that links the Dalai Lama to the Buddha himself (like seeing a Pope as embodying Jesus, just because he’s a Pope); so the Dalai Lama must know all things, about all things and is some enlightened Buddha type. Well that’s just baloney. Clearly.

    It’s not solely the dhimmi thing that shows up the Dalai Lama quite badly, so does his going along with the globular warming hysteria, and his friendship with the odious Bishop Desmond Tutu. Yet it is his statements on Islam, that are the nadir.

  10. Crusades Were Right! says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 4:18 am

    I wonder if the Dalai Lama can let us know just exactly how many angels can stand on the head of a pin? I understand he is an expert on ALL matters of religion.

  11. Raymond Hietapakka says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 5:26 am

    Anyone still listens to these witch doctors?

  12. Gary says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 5:34 am

    Keep it simple Dalai Lama: “Jesus answered, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through me.”

    • suj swami says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:23 am

      The Bible is a road sign pointing to Jesus…Jesus is a road sign pointing to ‘The Kingdom of Heaven’…Too many people get enamored by road signs and never reach the goal…

      • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 5:50 pm

        But at least it’s a road sign pointing to a worthy goal. By comparison, the Moslems are pointed at Jannat, the Islam porno heaven.

        Btw, the first half of the Bible had no concept of Jesus, only Yahweh.

        • Michael says

          Sep 20, 2016 at 11:27 pm

          Please, please read your Bible before spouting such nonsense. Please go read Isaiah 53, Psalm 22, all 4 Gospels, and Collossians 1 for starters. Then we can talk a little more honestly and intelligently about Jesus’ person.
          With respect, Jesus never called Himself a road sign but rather “The way” itself. He called Himself “I AM” (John 8:58) which is exactly what Yaweh called Himself in the interview with Moses at the burning bush( Exodus 3:14 ).All Jesus claims to Deity fall to ruin when you say such things. Please be more cautious or admit you are not quite the authority your tone suggests.

  13. Mubarak says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 6:03 am

    Apologists for Islam struggle to prescribe and prophesy for the world and themselves, that Islam is a religion of peace. They could just as well by fiat declare that a python is a warmblooded animal, and that no special caution is needed when you keep it as a pet.
    The words of the apostle Paul are pertinent here:
    While they are saying, “Peace and safety!” then destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 9:31 pm

      Mubarak has made it quite clear that he does not want to see peace and safety for any Infidels.

      • Mazo says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 8:35 pm

        Cravenmirage still continues with the charade and accuses a clearly Christian poster of being a Muslim.

        Muslims don’t revere Paul as an “apostle”. Paul is seen as the one who claimed Jesus is god.

  14. Kain G says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 6:15 am

    All he has to say is – “clearly there are a lot of problems between a lot of muslims and the rest of the world, its up to their religious leaders to guide them on the correct path for the betterment of all people, I am not an islamic scholar to get in to the intricacies of Islam the muslims should be deciding on what is good or bad in their religion” Why all this nonsense!

  15. David M says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 6:17 am

    Muslim girls as young as 9 living in Australia sent back overseas in large numbers to become child brides.

    http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjP19fF2p3PAhXIyT4KHQFWDIoQqQIILDAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2Fnews%2F2016-09-20%2Ftsumani-of-young-girls-forced-to-marry-overseas-nsw-says%2F7860670&usg=AFQjCNFi9KFa-0Q-TLcRi3qT7J1gdGTHkQ&sig2=F6TBKYaLFDzWJJ7kvsYtHw

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 5:53 pm

      So what about the young Moslem studs? If this keeps up being a young white girl in Sydney will be like Oslo or Stockholm. Or even Cologne.

  16. John Boston says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 6:36 am

    The Dalai Lama is just another pontificating globalist. He is obviously part of the leftist-Islamist-globalist alliance (LIGA), whose goal is to transform nation-states into one global borderless society. What “His Holiness” and people like Clinton and George Soros do not understand, apparently, is that Islam is extremely nationalistic and wants a global caliphate. Therefore, at some point, LIGA will break down as the Islamists demand their right to rule.

    Anyone who still listens to that “Islam is peace” lie is very stupid indeed. The word “dhimwit” describes such people. A dhimwit is anyone who deigns not to study actual Islamic history from its Ridda (Apostasy) Wars in 632-4 up to its latest attacks on civilization, but instead prefers the dhimmi narrative that Islam is peaceful, worthy of respect, etc. There is no hope for such people, except perhaps for a personal revelation of reality as the result of an attack by Muslim invaders.

    Kafir Akbar!

  17. Crusader says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:10 am

    I have been reading Jihad Watch 350 days of the year.I recommend that those that publish these articles and those that comment on these articles have two versions of what they write. If it’s going to be long. The short version followed by the long version. More people would read what you have to say!

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:46 am

      You must have a very short attention span. Most people here have a long one.

    • Pong says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 8:20 pm

      Most long ones are result of copy and paste parts of the Bible. Some repeat passages from the articals or someone’s post. I have to aggree that those copy and paste pieces pollute the blog, especially when a thread touches a religious subject. It often amusing that people think that by coping passages from the bible they can prove their point. Axioms are good only in geometry.

      • Mark Swan says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 4:03 am

        Here is another definition of it.

        Axioms generally accepted truth: a statement or idea that people accept as self-evidently true.

  18. Peter says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:11 am

    His first clue should be that there are no Buddhists in Pakistan, even among the ethnic Tibetans there.

    Muslims had an easy time eliminating Buddhism in Central Asia and North India, as all they had to do was destroy the locus of Buddhism, the monasteries, and murder or enslave the monks and nuns.

    Non-violence is not an Islamic doctrine.

    • Mazo says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 12:47 pm

      Balti Tibetans converted to Shia Islam before the creation of Pakistan. Baltistan became part of Pakistan because it was Muslim not the other way around.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 9:34 pm

        That’s right–Muslims have been slaughtering Buddhists since long before the creation of Pakistan.

        • Mazo says

          Sep 20, 2016 at 9:47 pm

          Cravenmirage’s statement had zero to do with my point.

          There were no great Shia powers which ruled Baltistan. Sunni powers dominated the region. The Baltis converted to Shia Islam out if their own conviction and belief. No Sunni leader would force Shiaism on them.

          There are Chakma Buddhists like Tridev Roy who live in Pakistan and serve in Pakistani government positions. Tridev was Pakistan’s ambassador to Argentina. Pakistan has a Buddhist community.

  19. Felix Quigley says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:18 am

    One of the things that is happening is that all of these religions like Buddhism is being tested out and found wanting. You can see the utter confusion as to how to go forward in Theodore Shoebat. Not models of clear thinking by any means. I am Trotskyist and stand in that tradition. I see Islam as an especially dangerous world outlook and a murderous filled with Antisemitism one at that. As regards Tibet ask the question what was there in Tibet before the Chinese took over? I am not sure it was so pleasant.

    • Wellington says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 1:38 pm

      You’re a Trotskyist? What the hell for? Trotsky (Bronstein) was a hard-core Marxist, which is to say he was a totalitarian opposed to true freedom as well as being as foolish about what makes an economy work as much as Marx himself was.

      Marxism is intellectual voodoo and its main principles like determinism, dialectical materialism, the labor value theory, the theory of alienation and the class struggle theory are all pernicious nonsense as Joseph Conrad noted. The one thing Marx got somewhat right was his economic interpretation of history but even here he went overboard by emphasizing economic factors way too much. Yep, George Washington and his officer corps led poor Continental Army soldiers against the British in order to protect their economic interests. That was their real goal. Uh-huh.

      • Mirren10 says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 1:56 pm

        ‘Felix Quigley’ is yet another example of the definition of insanity; doing the same thing over and over and over, and expecting a different result.

        Marxism has never worked anywhere it has been tried, and forcing it on people inexorably leads to gulags, prison camps, thought police, political murders, and the economic dictatorship of greedy, power hungry control freaks. Oh, yes, and the cranial withering of such as ‘Felix Quigley’. 🙂

        By the way, have you noticed, he rarely makes a substantive comment on any article he comments on, (or merely periphally) just gives another tired old plug for the most discredited, useless, and corrupt political system known to man, with the exception, of course, of islam.

        I hope you’re well, Wellington, or as well as any of us can be with this succubus hanging around our necks.

        • Mirren10 says

          Sep 20, 2016 at 1:59 pm

          Oops, that should be peripherally, not ‘periphally’.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 9:53 pm

      Trotskyist? Communism is almost as tyrannical as is Islam.

      • Mark Swan says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 4:06 am

        Close enough to turn me off.

  20. Paul Ashley says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:43 am

    “A world that by its very nature will be more and more global.”

    Well, he obviously doesn’t understand human nature, which wants boundaries, and rightly so.

    “Each person should be able to live at that place on the planet where he can best fulfill his aspirations.”

    And if a person’s aspirations are to kill infidels so that the place on the planet for him to live is among lots of availavle infidel victims, we are to believe that’s a good thing?

    What. An. Idiot.

  21. Harry ko says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:43 am

    We can lump the pope ,the Dali Obama and many so called world leaders into the
    same bunch of dimwits .Power to the people !!

  22. Peter says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:44 am

    Somebody should enlighten the Dalai Lama about the history of islam in India, and how muslims slaughtered buddhists and hindus on a scale never repeated anywhere in the world since. Even the northern parts of India and Afghanistan is called Hindu Kush, killing of hindus. While hinduism has had a renaissance, buddhism has never recovered in India, even though India is the birth place of Buddhism. While muslims have been harsh on Christians, it’s nothing in comparison to how they treated buddhists and hindus, who never “enjoyed” the “protection” as dhimmis.

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:52 am

      ”Somebody should enlighten the Dalai Lama about the history of islam in India, and how muslims slaughtered buddhists and hindus on a scale never repeated anywhere in the world since. ”

      I don’t think it’s possible to enlighten someone who determinedly and purposefully wants to remain unenlightened.

  23. Angemon says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:48 am

    The question of boundaries will be different. Each person should be able to live at that place on the planet where he can best fulfill his aspirations.

    Like the Chinese in Tibet?

    • Mirren10 says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:50 am

      🙂

      Nice one.

  24. overman says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Quite a good Exposé of the Dalai Lama by Stefan Molyneux.

  25. suj swami says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 10:55 am

    It’s not easy to be a high Lama…You must die many times and be reincarnated over and over as a Lama…All baby’s are tested to see if they are a reincarnated Lama…Once that is determined, the New Lama is subjected to a life of training, meditation and devotion…It’s not work like digging ditches, but it is a full time job…

    • Jack Diamond says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 5:57 pm

      dying is easy, comedy is hard.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 9:56 pm

        🙂

  26. Allan says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 1:12 pm

    The real Dalia Lama has already stood up. When he did so, he condemned Muhammad implicitly:

    ” ‘it is a Muslim teaching that once you are involved in bloodshed, actually you are no longer a genuine practitioner of Islam,’ the Dalai Lama said.”

    So there you have it. Dalia Lama, Lying Dingaling, says that Muhammad, the founder of Islam, committed apostasy. And Muhammad said that apostates should be killed. It’s probable also that he said that lamas who criticize any Muslim, esp. Mo, should be killed.

    • Allan says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 1:14 pm

      Dalai. The nannyware on my device is out of control.

  27. linnte says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    I have an ex-pat Tibetan friend, he’s 75, and he served the monks before the Chinese invasion. When I extolled the wonderful Dali to him, he got angry and said “He is a fake”. Don’t know what that means, but Pema sure was po’d!

  28. Frank says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    Dalai Lama is not a fool.

    As the second-highest lama in the Gelug sect, he knows very well about the Islamic destruction of Nalanda Monastery in ancient India. (The Gelug tradition especially upholds the Madhyamaka teachings developed and promulgated at Nalanda centuries ago). I would be surprised if he did not know the name of the Muslim conqueror who destroyed Nalanda and its great library. Buddhism never recovered in India, the land of its birth.

    Additionally, the Tibetans I know are level headed about Islam and don’t fall into the self-delusions of multiculturalism (although many Western “Tibetan” Buddhists do).

    So, what explains the Dalai Lama’s statements on Islam?

    A Buddhist teacher can be enlightened spiritually but not expert in a particular field of knowledge. He is learning.

    Also, the Dalai Lama has responsibility for the people of Tibet. He is easily the most popular leader in the world. Notice that almost 70 years after the supposed “liberation” from the evil “theocracy” and “slavery” China will not allow a plebicsite. Perhaps his public views are restrained by political necessity. After all, don’t we recognize the great attachment of the Western world to its nostrums?

    • Wellington says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 8:21 pm

      I have a very difficult time thinking anyone enlightened who buys into the nonsense of reincarnation. Such a person might be pleasant. Such a person might be no threat to others (as so many Muslims are). But such a person should not ever be considered enlightened.

      After all, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. There is zero extraordinary evidence for reincarnation.

      • Frank says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 11:28 pm

        I appreciate your thoughts and find myself in agreement with your various comments.

        “Enlightenment” is one of those words with imprecise meaning in English. Buddhist teachings give it definition.

        However, “Thought discloses the vague outlines of Reality – but at
        a distance, and as through a glass, darkly. Practice alone
        makes real {.” Buddhist Thought in India”}

    • Mazo says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 9:09 pm

      Separatist Tibetans want to evict all Salar, Hui and Dongxiang Muslims from Qinghai and Gansu provinces since they claim both as part of “Greater Tibet”. Muslims have been living there for over 700 years but Dalai Lama demands eviction.

      The Salar, Dongxiang and Hui Muslims all demand Qinghai remain as part of China and refuse to be part of any Tibetan ruled entity.

      The Hui and Salar Muslim soldiers of Ma Bufang defeated the Lhasa Tibetan army in 1932 when the 13th Dalai Lama tried invading Qinghai. The 13th Dalai Lama cried for a ceasefire.

      Khampa Tibetans under Pandatsang Rapga opposed the 14th Dalai Lama. There are Khamba Tibetans in Taiwan who support the Republic of China government in Taipei and are against the Dalai Lama’s faction. Khamba Tibetan anti Communist guerillas have pledged alleigance to the Republic of China government in Taiwan and its Mongolian and Tibetan Affairs Commission which claims Tibet and does not recognize the Dalai Lama’s separatist group. The Dalai Lama refuses to acknowledge their existence because they are Tibetans who oppose Communism and the Dalai Lama’s separatism.

      Muslims of Qinghai oppose separatism, Khamba Tibetans in Taiwan oppose separatism. The Dalai Lama’s party refuses to acknowledge their existence and demands their votes not be counted.

  29. billybob says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    “All major religious traditions carry the same message: a message of love, compassion, forgiveness, tolerance, contentment, self-discipline — all religious traditions,” the Dalai Lama said.

    I am very disappointed in this man. he is supposed to be the very embodiment of enlightenment. He clearly is not.

  30. James Horn says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    The Dhali Lama is confused abut Islam.

    China’s protective presence in Tibet blocks Islamists from invading and totally destroying everything Tibettan. Look at a map and you will not that there are five (5) countries whose names end in “stan” on those borders, all poised to invade, rape, pillage, enslave, and destroy as is commanded by the ideology and dogma of Islam.

  31. volunteer says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Here’s even more on the Dalai Lama and his understanding of Islam, “The Dhimmi Dalai Lama” from 2008.
    https://www.politicalislam.com/the-dhimmi-dalai-lama/

  32. jewdog says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 7:40 pm

    Tibet has been colonized by the Communist Chinese who use demography and force to suppress its culture and religion in a ruthless attempt to assimilate it into China. Mr. Lama needs to explain what he’s doing to help reverse that unfortunate situation before he lectures the rest of us on how to deal with the perils of hostile mass immigration.

    • Mazo says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 8:55 pm

      The CIA world factbook says Tibet is 93% populated by ethnic Tibetans. Not China’s own census, the CIA factbook.

      Migration in China consists of tens of millions of migrant workers from the interior moving towards coastal cities like Shanghai every year while Tibet is sparsely populated at just 3,180,000 people. So its been apprantly taking 60+ years to flood Tibet with migrants at a pathetically slow rate.

      There are 8 million Tibetans. You say Hitler gassed 6 million in 5 years. So apparently its taking 60 + years to gas the 6 million Tibetans which were present 60 years ago and now has grown to 8 million. And the gas apparently usn’t even working since they are still alive.

      Minorities get more affirmative action in China than blacks in the USA. Minorities get reserved university spots, extra points on college entrance exams, preferentual economic aid and exemptions from birth control.

      The Americas, Australia and New Zealand were made majority white through bloody genocide of natives and demographic swamping.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 20, 2016 at 9:13 pm

        The repulsive Mazo wrote:

        There are 8 million Tibetans. You say Hitler gassed 6 million in 5 years. So apparently its taking 60 + years to gas the 6 million Tibetans which were present 60 years ago and now has grown to 8 million. And the gas apparently usn’t (sic) even working since they are still alive.
        ……………………………

        jewdog did not mention anything about the Chinese “gassing” Tibetans.

        All the vile Mazo is doing here is taunting a Jewish poster with gratuitous references to the Holocaust. *Ugh*.

  33. sahani says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 8:05 pm

    WW1 WW2 are over But Saudi Arab Islamic war is going on since 1400 yrs .Our foolish religious and Political leaders misleading the common man and not educating Under islam you just die and kill .They are not Human being Its killing machine .Mullas are trained and paid to make you Jihadis.

  34. Michael Thames says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 8:48 pm

    Man the Dalai Lama hate is out of control here. What do you expect him to say publicly……. He represents Tibetan Buddhism to the world, he is trying to make peace with the Muslims. He is a refugee in a forgiven country a country that happens to be about 40% Muslim. He is wise to tone down his remarks, as to not endanger Tibetan people the world over. A few years ago the Muslims bomed Bodhgaya the place of the Buddha’s enlightenment.

    I read write and speak Tibetan, I consider myself a Buddhist. A lama friend of mine told me years ago that the biggest threat facing Tibet today was Muslims marrying Tibetan women and destroying the culture, far more damage than the Chinese could inflict. The Dalai Lama is most likely well aware of what is going on, he is well aware of what the Quran says. He looks towards the positive quotes, but I’m sure he knows the negative as well. What’s he gonna do declare war by Tibetan Buddhists towards Islam, would that make you all happy? Would that be the wise thing to do?

    I’m different I’m very outspoken about the dangers of Islam, but I’m not the Dalai Lama. Good lord he is not running around Promoting Islam like Obama and Hillary.

    I thought his comments about Germany remaining German and giving temporary assilym to Refugees was quite bold.

    There is a Buddhist prophecy that says Islam will take over the world. The word for Muslims in Tibetan translates as barbarians. Once the Muslims conquer the world they will look to find the hidden Kingdom of Shambala, due to the time being right the Muslim King finds it and as the story goes throws a spear at the King of Shambala which does not strike him. The King of Shambala a Buddhist, walks three times around the spear then declares total war on the the Muslims. He defeats them in a Great War which lasts for 7 days, and 10,00- years of a Golden age follows on earth.

    The time is uncertain, but it’s clear the Dalai Lama doesn’t want to provoke the Muslims. He is a very wise man.

  35. mgoldberg says

    Sep 20, 2016 at 9:12 pm

    I have told this story before, but one more time.
    When I was young, I stayed for a year at the tibetan learning center set up by the first gelugpa tibetan
    geshe’ here in america. He during my stay, had asked me a question, which I will leave out; if someone
    is remotely interested, they could dig out of the archives, I imagine. He at one point in our conversation, basically shattered my attempt at equanimity when he made the very very blunt statement to my face.
    It was in response to me trying to assert that we (jews) could share our experiences and suffering and make the muslims, arabs understand
    To which he quietly but firmly replied to me”….. ‘Islam is a devil’s religion’
    This was the guy who first brought Tibetan buddhism to America.
    I being young, and more stupid than I should have been…. didn’t reply and it might have been a magnificient conversation if I knew then what to ask and assess and say. But I didn’t, and it wasn’t some cult so the conversation ended. But his words haunted me for years and I quietly tried to understand what he meant and what to make of it. Of course, the events of the last 25 yrs have opened up my eyes as they have a lot of people… but the point I would make is that the guy who I went to study
    with flat out told me ‘Islam is a Devil’s Religion.
    For what it’s worth, He was much more impressive a person to me than the Dalai Lama, who, when I heard these words some ten years ago, lead me to buy the DL’s own book on ‘Islam in Tibet’ but though it sits on my bookshelf, unread, because his internet words have disappointed me so very much these last ten years

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 20, 2016 at 10:00 pm

      Yes–I remember your sharing this very telling story before, mgoldberg.

      • Mirren10 says

        Sep 21, 2016 at 10:56 am

        Me too.

        And the question remains, why is *one* Tibetan monk endowed with common sense and truthfulness, and the other not ? (I hope your Tibetan monk shared his knowledge of islam with as many people as possible).

        Thanks for posting the story again.

  36. citycat says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 1:04 am

    “all religions want peace”
    Maybe the Lama thinks peace after rape for Islam is peace.
    Or is he naive? Or does he have a superior attitude?
    I don’t know but maybe he, like most religions do, thinks that his way is the only true way.
    Religion is coming out.
    A few religions, not Islam, have opened shops nearby here.
    I called into the Buddhist shop to get ching chings for my daughter who is Buddhist.
    The Buddhists in there were blissed out, and they noticeably had an extremely subtle superior attitude.
    I’ve seen other Buddhists like that. No problem, no harm to me, superior is relative, therefore dependent, it will fall, like all of them.

  37. More Ham Ed says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 2:41 am

    There are only 3 groups of people. Those who won’t acknowledge God, those who think they can earn a right standing with God, and those who have found that they need a Savior. ONE of those groups will experience eternal life.

  38. RL Robison says

    Sep 21, 2016 at 3:19 pm

    Your description of Jean Raspail’s book “The Camp of the Saints” reminded me of the recent arrival of a Muslim “refugee” into Germany – accompanied by his four wives and 23 children. Such out of control birth rates as exemplified by this Muslim family have been a major barrier to economic improvement in many Islamic countries. That such “refugees” desire the jobs and welfare offered by the developed West is understandable (if undesirable by their hosts).. What is lunacy is that those “refugees” also desire to convert their welcoming Western countries into the same economic and social cesspools that the “refugees” left behind.

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