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Dalai Lama Enlisted To Change Islam Image
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2006, (UPI) -- The Dalai Lama met in San Francisco
with prominent Muslim dignitaries to seek ways to improve their faith's
declining image in the West.
"The 90 percent of the Muslim world that is moderate and peace-loving wants
to overcome the radical ideologies of the rest," said Dan Kranzler, one of
the gathering's sponsors. "If there is anyone in the world who can cheat the
odds and make that happen it's the Dalai Lama."
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, but Islam has
no similar central authority to unite its members. Muslims around the globe
interpret the faith differently and are more divided among themselves.
The summit was a measure of the concern among moderate Muslim leaders and
scholars about religious extremism and increasingly negative views of their
faith arising from Western concerns about terrorism, The Los Angeles Times
reported.
"Islam is one of the world's great religions and it carries, basically, a
message of love and compassion," the Dalai Lama said. "Those people who
claim to be Muslims, if they create bloodshed, that is not genuine Islam."
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World Tibet Network NewsPublished by the Canada Tibet CommitteeMonday, April 17, 2006 |
1. Dalai Lama Enlisted To Change Islam Image
SAN FRANCISCO, April 17, 2006, (UPI) -- The Dalai Lama met in San Francisco
with prominent Muslim dignitaries to seek ways to improve their faith's
declining image in the West.
"The 90 percent of the Muslim world that is moderate and peace-loving wants
to overcome the radical ideologies of the rest," said Dan Kranzler, one of
the gathering's sponsors. "If there is anyone in the world who can cheat the
odds and make that happen it's the Dalai Lama."
The Dalai Lama is the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, but Islam has
no similar central authority to unite its members. Muslims around the globe
interpret the faith differently and are more divided among themselves.
The summit was a measure of the concern among moderate Muslim leaders and
scholars about religious extremism and increasingly negative views of their
faith arising from Western concerns about terrorism, The Los Angeles Times
reported.
"Islam is one of the world's great religions and it carries, basically, a
message of love and compassion," the Dalai Lama said. "Those people who
claim to be Muslims, if they create bloodshed, that is not genuine Islam."
Articles in this Issue:
- Dalai Lama Enlisted To Change Islam Image
- Dalai Lama Pleads for Defending Islam
- Islam is a religion of compassion: Dalai Lama
- Giant Mao statue erected in Tibet
- Dalai Lama's Tibet visit likely in July
- Dalai Lama has message of learning
- Fake Tibetan Medicine May Cause Serious Legal Problems
- Don't protest Hu's US visit'
- Seattle Tibetans Not to Demonstrate Hu's Visit
- China's leader to visit Seattle Hu likely will see protests, adulation during Seattle visit
- Hu Jintao grant Tibet's independence
- JUST LISTEN TO KASHAG
- White House Out to Lunch With China Hu Jintao is anxious to please, but the U.S. remains aloof
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