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"The numerous passages enjoining moslems to kill non-moslems might - just might - give him pause about "reaching out" to those of this "compassionate faith."

Islam has always had a special hatred for Buddhists and Buddhism . I do not think it behooves Buddhists to look kindly upon or excuse all the past horrors of the negative interactions that have occurred. Does HHDL excuse the PRC's genocidal Red Guards their deprivations upon Tibet? The legacy of Islam has been much worse, and given the license will be a thousand times worse in the future. The Dalai Lama , I think ,fears moslem attacks on Buddhists in Ladahk and upon the Buddhist Holy places . He is handing them appeasement in the hopes that their wrath will be directed elsewhere.

"I do not think it behooves Buddhists to look kindly upon or excuse all the past horrors of the negative interactions that have occurred."

Nor does it behoove any of the rest of us to continue treating islam as though it is ammenable to polite society.

Remember, it was the moslem Turks that taught the nazis how to perform genocide by isolating huge groups of Armenians out in the desert so that they simply starved to death. The nazis used that practice as a pattern for their death camps.