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  • Dalai Lama: 'Europe belongs to Europeans'

    Where is Richard Gere when you need him!

    STOCKHOLM (AFP) -

    The Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, said Wednesday that "Europe belongs to the Europeans" and that refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them.

    Speaking at a conference in Sweden's third-largest city of Malmo, home to a large immigrant population, the Dalai Lama -- who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 -- said Europe was "morally responsible" for helping "a refugee really facing danger against their life".

    "Receive them, help them, educate them... but ultimately they should develop their own country," said the 83-year-old Tibetan who fled the capital Lhasa in fear of his life after China poured troops into the region to crush an uprising.

    "I think Europe belongs to the Europeans," he said, adding they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country".

    https://www.france24.com/en/20180912...ongs-europeans
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    He sounds like that bigot Trump!

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    • #3
      Originally posted by seer View Post
      Where is Richard Gere when you need him!
      Did the question mark key fall off your keyboard or something?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by seer View Post
        Where is Richard Gere when you need him!
        Originally posted by One Bad Pig View Post
        Did the question mark key fall off your keyboard or something?
        Is a rhetorical question even a question.

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        More seriously, the Dalai Lama's "...they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country"" surely applies to Tibetan refugees -- all those Buddhist monks, and the Dalai Lama himself. He can hardly have missed the close parallel, nor expect others to miss it, so the (non-rhetorical) question is when does he envisage he and his monks will return to Tibet to rebuild it, and under what circumstances?

        (I don't particularly like question marks, I stick them in only when I actively want an answer in response; but I put one on the end there for OBP.)

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        • #5
          Originally posted by David Hayward View Post
          Is a rhetorical question even a question.

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          More seriously, the Dalai Lama's "...they should make clear to refugees that "they ultimately should rebuild their own country"" surely applies to Tibetan refugees -- all those Buddhist monks, and the Dalai Lama himself. He can hardly have missed the close parallel, nor expect others to miss it, so the (non-rhetorical) question is when does he envisage he and his monks will return to Tibet to rebuild it, and under what circumstances?

          (I don't particularly like question marks, I stick them in only when I actively want an answer in response; but I put one on the end there for OBP.)
          I don't think China would allow him to return, or jail him as soon as he does.
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          • #6
            Originally posted by seer View Post
            "Europe belongs to the Europeans" and that refugees should return to their native countries to rebuild them.
            I guess likewise America belongs to the native Americans.

            You guys here whos ancestors came to the US as refugees / economic migrants should probably get back on the boat to Europe.
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Dimbulb View Post
              I guess likewise America belongs to the native Americans.

              You guys here whos ancestors came to the US as refugees / economic migrants should probably get back on the boat to Europe.
              The pilgrims didn't come to America as refugees; but I must admit, I'm shocked -- utterly shocked! -- that you are ignorant of US history.
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              • #8
                Originally posted by Mountain Man View Post
                The pilgrims didn't come to America as refugees; but I must admit, I'm shocked -- utterly shocked! -- that you are ignorant of US history.
                Why do you say that? They were facing religious persecution in England.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by KingsGambit View Post
                  Why do you say that? They were facing religious persecution in England.
                  The pilgrims came to this country with the expectation that they were going to have to survive on their own and make their own life without depending on anybody else to give them a handout. Calling them "refugees" and trying to draw a parallel between the pilgrims and modern immigration is ignorant.
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Starlight View Post
                    I guess likewise America belongs to the native Americans.

                    You guys here whos ancestors came to the US as refugees / economic migrants should probably get back on the boat to Europe.
                    And you might want to get the heck outta New Zealand and return the land to the Maoris

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by rogue06 View Post
                      And you might want to get the heck outta New Zealand and return the land to the Maoris
                      One reason why I'm not endorsing the Dala Lamas comments like some here are.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by David Hayward View Post
                        Is a rhetorical question even a question.
                        Formally, yes. That would be why it's called a question. Why don't we all make up our own puncuation rules?
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