Behold the terrible price of TOLERATING Islam and its inherent promise of terror.
Posted on 10/14/2006 7:58:36 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
Dalai Lama sees Pope, says few Muslims "mischievous" By Stephen Brown
ROME (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said after meeting Pope Benedict on Friday that "a few mischievous Muslims" should not be allowed to give the Islamic faith a bad name.
Muslims worldwide were offended by a speech by the Pope last month in which he quoted a Byzantine emperor who said the Prophet Mohammed spread Islam by the sword.
The backlash has been sometimes violent and hardliners declared war on the Pope.
The exiled spiritual leader of 6 million Tibetan Buddhists living under Chinese Communist rule said Benedict and his predecessor John Paul II, who died last year, shared with himself a vocation for "the promotion of religious harmony."
"Nowadays I often express that due to a few mischievous Muslims' acts we should not consider all Muslims as something bad. That is very unfair," the Dalai Lama told a news conference organized by a Rome university hosting him for a seminar.
"A few mischievous people you can find among fellows from all religions -- among Muslims and Christians and Jews and Buddhists. To generalize is not correct," he said.
The Vatican called the Dalai Lama's audience with the leader of the world's 1.1 billion Roman Catholics "strictly private" and "strictly religious."
To keep the visit low profile, his name did not appear on the list of people received by the Pope in the Vatican's daily bulletin, as those of most visitors, including religious leaders, usually do.
The Dalai Lama said he had not discussed with the Pope his quest for China to grant the homeland he has not seen since 1959 better human rights and more cultural and religious autonomy.
The Vatican already has difficult relations with China due to Beijing's refusal to let millions of Chinese Catholics belong to the Roman Catholic church under the authority of the Pope, obliging them to worship as part of a state-backed church.
Beijing has had no diplomatic relations with the Vatican since 1951, two years after the Communist Party took power.
The Vatican estimates that about 8 million Chinese Catholics worship in "underground churches" compared with some 5 million who belong to the state-controlled Church.
Beijing wants the Vatican to sever its ties with Taiwan, the self-ruled island Beijing says is a breakaway province, before talks on re-establishing ties can start.
Asked why he had not been invited to pay a call on Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, who visited China last month to promote trade, the Dalai Lama said his visit "had no certain agenda for meeting with the Italian government."
"I always try to avoid causing people inconveniences," said the Dalai Lama, who has been based in India since 1959, after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule in Tibet.
I guess.
Behold the terrible price of TOLERATING Islam and its inherent promise of terror.
Its been gone a long time ago for me.
Serially Demented more accurately.
John 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart...
2Corinthians 3:14... for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away ...
There you go again,..simply posting some mischievious incoveniences that will merely frustrate the Dali Lama.
Good verses ... I dare say something similar is happening in our churches today. Only here, they blind themselves to the story about Lot.
I know he's seen a lot of the worst that can be done, but sometimes he seems a little out of touch. Just a tad.
I understand that English is not the Dalai Lama's native language, and perhaps some of the nuances are lost in the translation, but routine beheadings, torture, slaughter, dismemberment, suicide, and barbarity are not "mischief." They are the works of animals unworthy of the title "human."
Wrong.
Generalizing in this case gives you a murderous band of throat-slitting thugs and those who give support to them.
And it's not a "few".
The history of Western Europe would undeniably be very different had the Frankish army been defeated in 732. Like the victory of Constantinople some fifteen years earlier, Muslim advances had finally been thwarted, and the steady Reconquista of Spain and parts of Byzantine Empire began apace.
Though the Byzantines finally succumbed by 1453, the Turks were eventually defeated in the great naval battle at Lepanto in 1571, and turned away from Vienna in 1683.
The threat of the Caliphate encroaching on Western Europe never penetrated as far west again--until today, as unassimilated Muslim immigrants threaten to "behead those who insult Islam" and foment rage at every perceived slight.
http://slapstickpolitics.blogspot.com/2006/10/charles-martel-and-battle-of-tours.html#links
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