{"id":4577,"date":"2010-08-28T15:06:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2010-08-28T15:06:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-28T15:06:30","slug":"the-dalai-lama-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-dalai-lama-again\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dalai-Lama.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Dalai-Lama-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4589\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnaindia.com\/india\/report_dalai-lama-wants-china-to-learn-religious-harmony-from-india_1422420\">Via PTI:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said today that China should learn religious harmony and non-violence from India. Describing himself \u201cas the Son of India,\u201d Dalai Lama, who was in Amritsar for a night halt on his way to Dharmshala, said that India was known all over the world for religious harmony. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.secularnewsdaily.com\/2010\/08\/22\/leader-in-religious-intolerance-india-vs-china-part-1\/\">Take it away <em>Secular News Daily<\/em>:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What on earth is he talking about?<\/p>\n<p>Is he talking about the Gujarat riots of 2002, where Hindus enraged over what turned out to be an accidental train fire killed an estimated 2,000 Muslims and drove another 100,000+ from their homes, with the connivance of the local government? Only 11 people have been punished for this so far \u2013 they must have been awfully industrious. That\u2019s fewer than the 14 people handed life sentences for the slaughter of another thousand Muslims at Bhagalpur in 1989, but that process took 17 years to complete.<\/p>\n<p>Is he talking about the mass violence directed against Christians in Orissa at Christmas in 2007? The burning alive of a nun inside a Catholic orphanage the following year? The burning to death of an Adventist pastor and his mother inside his home, during a spree that saw 17 Orissa churches and over 500 other homes destroyed?<\/p>\n<p>By religious harmony, does he mean the laws popping up in Indian states banning conversion from one religion to another, specifically targeted at Christian efforts to proselytize among Hindus? In Orissa, it now requires a permit from the police to convert from one religion to another. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via PTI: Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama said today that China should learn religious harmony and non-violence from India. Describing himself \u201cas the Son of India,\u201d Dalai Lama, who was in Amritsar for a night halt on his way &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/the-dalai-lama-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[545,495],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4577"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4592,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4577\/revisions\/4592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/secularright.org\/SR\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}