Actually, a link to another group which has cooperated with Al-Queda, but a lot of these Pakistan/Afghanistan Islamic groups exchange people, information and resources.
Here is the article. Notable quote:
A three-tier security ring has been thrown around the 72-year-old Buddhist head, who lives at Dharamsala, in the Himalayan foothills, Indian police spokesman Prem Lal said.
All those approaching the exiled Tibetan chief will be closely watched by highly trained Tibetan security guards as well as heavily armed deployments of Indian police.
Visitors are being body-searched before being allowed to approach him.
This makes me incredibly sad, but it's part and parcel of the age.
And then it brings up, of course, how non-violence may be an inappropriate response, to determined aggression. We knew this of course, simply from China's extermination of the Tibetans as a separate people, over the last 50 years.
Thanks to Matthew Dallman for the link.
The National Review article, throughout, conflates priests practices Buddhism, with people who are primarily Buddhist, but acting out of nationalism - but the main point still remains that in certain situations, even practicing buddhist priets have responded to force, with force.
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Re: Dalai Lama a target of assassination by Al-Queda?
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Per
on Sat 07 Apr 2007 02:07 AM PDT | Permanent Link
"And then it brings up, of course, how non-violence may be an inappropriate response, to determined aggression. We knew this of course, simply from China's extermination of the Tibetans as a separate people, over the last 50 years."
Do we really know that? If Tibet had used armed resistance, they would still have been squashed as a bug, even if they had spent years building up a modern army before the invasion... It would (most likely) not have helped one bit, only deepened their tragedy. As it is now, Tibetan culture, including Tibetan Buddhism, is highly respected around the world, not the least for the integrity they have shown. And there is also a great deal of interest in Tibetan Buddhism for exactly that reason. Would that have happened if they had engaged in a (failed) military resistance? Probably not to the same degree. I am not an absolutist here. I think armed resistance is very appropriate in some situations (WWII is one), and nonviolent resistance is very appropriate in other situations, and Tibet seems to be a star example there. It may not be successful in resisting China or getting them out of Tibet, but an armed resistance would not have been successful in that way either. It has been tremendously successful in other areas, in ways an armed resistance would never have been able to. Trackbacks
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