[Due to comment discomfort of certain verbage, I have edited with [] where the word "slap" previously existed.]
Yeah, a lot of [criticizing] of Republican ideology going on, and particularly smarting is the Bush/ Cheney cabal. Now even the Dalai Lama is getting in on the [criticism].
It started with Colin Powell's [surprise attack] of Bush over torturing prisoners and it hasn't stopped yet...
Now the Cheney/ Bush cabal will have to call our "ally" Pakistani president Pervez Musharaff, the Dalai Lama, as well as the entire American intelligence apparatus insulting nucUlar names like "naive" or worse as the public wakes up from their lies and distortions to the real state of affairs in Iraq, that Iraq has spawned a new generation of jihadists and made America far less safe.
But the Dalai Lama, wise man that he is, doesn't just [criticize] the cabal, the leaders of the right-wing religious freaks, but he [upbraids] their entire ideology of the freaks:
The Dalai Lama said he has distilled his personal beliefs to a simple phrase: "My religion is kindness."
He would not comment directly on the furor aroused in the Muslim world after recent remarks about Islam by Pope Benedict XVI, but the Dalai Lama warned against the misuse of religion to foment social divisions.
"Mischievous people often use religious faith for their own interests and create conflict," he said. "We have to look at the real message of all these traditions."
THAT is what I have been trying to do, to "look at the real message," see my (rather outdated) subtitle link for that. Not that I'm even in the same city, much less ballpark, as the Dalai Lama...
Kindness yes. Refraining from deserved criticism? NO.
The Tibetan spiritual leader initially reserved judgment on the conflict, saying it would only become clear with time whether the invasion was a good idea.
"At the early stage I felt, and also I expressed, 'Too early to say, to judge.' But now, things not very positive," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "Now in Iraq -- too many killings."
To restore relations between the Muslim world and the West, he said, both sides should get to know each other.
"Close contact creates clear understanding," he said. "Then suspicion, fear may not find much room. Even some disagreement doesn't matter."
I love that man. What would our world be like if kinder, gentler religions ruled our consciousness?
What if imperialistic, fire-and-brimstone proselytizers like Evangelicals and rightwing Popes didn't run our world?
What if...