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The video of the Dalai Lama asking a boy to suck his tongue went viral last week. And there’s no unseeing it. It’s like, for a child, there’s no unseeing their parents having sex. Ewww! Frankly, it’s so perverted that publishing this video smacks of propagating child porn. The Dalai Lama apologizes Don’t get me started on his non-apology… Read more.
Government forces and militant Buddhists have persecuted Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar for years. So it’s hardly surprising that fleeing Rohingyas have now created a humanitarian crisis in Bangladesh. This rivals the notorious crisis Syrian refugees created in Europe. The first thing Rohingya villagers fleeing Myanmar notice when they get to Bangladesh, apart from the stench… Read more.
China on Wednesday warned U.S. President Barack Obama against meeting with the Dalai Lama at the White House, saying that hosting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage mutual trust. Obama has met the Dalai Lama several times before and calls the monk, who is revered by Tibetans but portrayed by Beijing as a dangerous… Read more.
I have repeatedly denounced world leaders for refusing to meet with the Dalai Lama out of fear of incurring the wrath of China: Western leaders have made a mockery of their condemnation of the brutal crackdown on Tibetan monks by heeding China’s warning against meeting with the Dalai Lama in any official capacity. UK Prime… Read more.
Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela’s compelling autobiography, in which he highlights his 50-year struggle (1944-94) to liberate Black South Africa from White Apartheid oppression. The irony, of course, is that Mandela spent 27 of those years in prison, where his walking was clearly limited. Freedom in Exile is the Dalai Lama’s equally compelling autobiography,… Read more.
Western leaders have made a mockery of their condemnation of the brutal crackdown on Tibetan monks by heeding China’s warning against meeting with the Dalai Lama in any official capacity. In fact, UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown appeased the Chinese by refusing to meet with him at No. 10, choosing instead to meet only at the residence of the… Read more.
The way Saturday Night Live (SNL) parodied President Obama’s failure to follow through on campaign promises demonstrates why liberals have already become so disillusioned with his presidency. For here, in part, is how his hopeful presidential checklist was lampooned on Saturday night by the show’s Barack Obama impersonator (who, incidentally, looks more like Pee Wee… Read more.
Westerns are incredulous by South Africa’s decision to ban the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, from attending a peace conference for Nobel laureates that is scheduled to convene in Johannesburg on Friday. But nobody familiar with recent developments in South African politics should be. A few years ago, communists and other left-wing factions in the… Read more.
Just months ago, China faced near-universal condemnation for its brutal crackdown on Buddhist monks who took to the streets of Tibet to protest against Chinese rule. Moreover, there was widespread belief that the outrage world leaders expressed would compel many of them to punish China by personally boycotting the Beijing Summer Olympics (or, in some… Read more.
