"Ramabriga" <Ramabriga@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> International Herald Tribune
> Dalai Lama defends Islam as peaceful religion
and now all the islamophobes are calling him a "muzzie"....
> The Associated Press
> Sunday, July 13, 2008
>
> BETHLEHEM, Pa.: The Dalai Lama said Sunday that "it's totally wrong,
> unfair" to call Islam a violent religion.
>
> The Tibetan spiritual leader, appearing at Lehigh University in
> Pennsylvania, offered a defense of Islam in response to a question about
> the rise of violent religious fundamentalism. He added that he has made
a
> point of reaching out to Muslims since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
>
> The Dalai Lama arrived at Lehigh on Thursday for a series of talks on a
> 600-year-old Buddhist text. He took a break Sunday to lecture on
> "Generating a Good Heart," and afterward took questions from Lehigh
> President Alice P. Gast that had been submitted in advance by the
public.
>
> Asked why so many Americans are depressed and anxious, he joked: "I'm
the
> wrong person to ask. You should ask Americans." Then he answered that
U.S.
> society is too competitive and that people always want "something more,
> something more, something more."
>
> The Dalai Lama, who attracted a capacity crowd of about 5,000, did not
> mention next month's Beijing Olympics. The Chinese government has
demanded
> that the Dalai Lama express sup****t for the Olympics and repudiate
efforts
> to disrupt them as a condition for continued talks.
>
> China has governed Tibet since the 1950s. The Dalai Lama, who fled to
> India amid a failed uprising in 1959, has said he wants some form of
> autonomy that would allow Tibetans to freely practice their culture,
> language and religion.
>
> The Dalai Lama, who turned 73 on July 6, said Sunday that he's looking
> forward to "complete retirement." He joked that he's now considered a
> "senior most respected adviser" to Tibet's government in exile.
>
> He is scheduled to speak at the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia on
> Wednesday.
>
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/13/america/Dalai-Lama.php
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