The Dalai Lama and the Iraq War

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July 28, 2015

On July 1, 2015, in Dallas, the Dalai Lama celebrated his 80th birthday with the Bush couple.

Source: The Dalai Lama's Facebook page.

As Confucius said: "A picture is worth a thousand words."

Translation of the caption: "His Holiness the Dalai Lama laughing after blowing out the candles on the birthday cake presented by President Bush and his wife in honor of his 80th birthday, during a lunch at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, Texas, on July 1, 2015."

On January 28, 2008, the British medical journal The Lancet ("The Scalpel") published a study based on epidemiological data, estimating the number of Iraqi deaths caused by the war between 400,000 and 700,000, including a significant percentage of women and children. The independent British institute ORB estimates this figure to be between 700,000 and 1.4 million.

Meanwhile, according to United Nations estimates, 2.5 million Iraqis (one in eight) have fled their country due to violence. Within the country, 1.8 million Iraqis have been displaced, forced to abandon their homes.

Source.

Let us recall that the U.S. intervention in Iraq was decided without the approval of the UN Security Council, based on the doctrine of "preventive war," on the basis of lies and fabricated claims about Iraq's supposed possession of "weapons of mass destruction" under the rule of dictator Saddam Hussein.

Let us recall that later, the current G.W. Bush admitted, "that it was a mistake, due to bad information."

Given the human devastation resulting from this intervention—whose stated goals were anything but humanitarian or security-oriented, but rather aimed at seizing Iraqi oil resources and accelerating the destabilization of the Middle East, already initiated with the war in Afghanistan—this places President G.W. Bush, the war leader, on the same level as the war criminals condemned at the Nuremberg trials.

For example, recall that Hitler invaded Poland following a false flag operation in which the Nazi regime claimed that Polish terrorists had seized a radio station to broadcast a message urging Polish nationals living in the Sudetenland to overthrow the Hitler regime. The Nazis then recaptured the station, killing the "terrorists." It was later proven, based on the confessions of one of the participants in this Operation Himmler, Alfred Naujoks, below, that the entire affair had been staged, and that the so-called "terrorists" were in fact common criminals or political prisoners brought to the site and shot at close range.

****Alfred Naujoks

Do you see any difference between this false flag operation and the Iraq War, initiated after Colin Powell's UN presentation showing vials of anthrax and images of mobile Iraqi facilities intended for biological weapons production?

These are brazen lies, statements that amount to complicity in crimes.

*Colin Powell enjoyed a reputation for integrity, not entirely consistent.
**At the time of the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, a young lieutenant aged 31 and in charge of the investigation, he did his best to downplay the tragedy.
In this text, search for "Powell".

One might expect that a figure like the Dalai Lama could take a stand regarding these now-verified facts. A man who has written many books, repeatedly condemned war, openly declared a principle of pacifism, and exuded compassion.

Well, no. This one, Nobel Peace Prize winner (like Henry Kissinger, like Obama), is just as corrupt as the two above (and the third on top). Watch this video.

In it, we see massive demonstrations opposing the war. But further on, an excerpt from a New York Times article dated September 18, 2003:

Translation:

THE DALAI LAMA SAYS TERRORISM COULD CALL FOR A VIOLENT RESPONSE

The interview dates from September 2003. The Iraq War had begun on March 20, five months earlier. Everything was quickly settled: combat officially ended on May 1, more than four months before the Dalai Lama's interview. At that time, the entire world already knew that the Americans had found no "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq, which the Dalai Lama could not have ignored.

Still in this video, go to 1 minute 26. A journalist asks the Dalai Lama to clarify his position on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. His response:

... he bursts into laughter !!!

As for the legality or illegality of this war, he responds, still in this video, at minute 5:22:

"It's too early to say."

These are not rumors or journalists' inventions. This has been known for years. When people claim the Dalai Lama has received millions of dollars from the U.S. since the 1960s, I tend to believe it.

Conclusion: this "holy man" is nothing but a Pangloss, a Tartuffe, disguised as the "Buddha of compassion." You can form your own opinion. After watching this video, simply let the rest of the videos follow one after another. It's overwhelming.

Let’s look at the numbers.

Saddam Hussein was one of many dictators ruling this planet. There are those who openly display their power and those who hide behind the veil of "democracy." A democracy without a free press, without freedom of expression, is merely a dictatorship operating differently. Remember the joke:

- Dictatorship is "Shut up!"

- Democracy is "Keep talking!"

Without the Arab countries, broadly speaking, ethnic groups divide into two groups:

- Sunnis

- Shiites

From a Quranic perspective, there is less difference between these two than between a Catholic and a Protestant, since they follow nearly the same doctrine and base themselves on the same holy book, the Quran.

Explore the web to discover the difference.

In Iran: Shiite majority. In Iraq, they are equal to Sunnis.

Explore the history of Iraq (and the entire Middle East, whose borders were drawn... by Westerners). Saddam, born into a Sunni clan, seized power following a military coup. He ruled as a dictator, killing hundreds annually in his prisons without trial or through commando operations. Naturally, the Shiites were oppressed, excluded from the army and administrative leadership positions. Saddam’s career involved a long flirtation with various Western countries—the French, the U.S., the CIA, etc.—against the backdrop of anti-Israeli tensions.

For centuries, Arab countries, deeply divided, could still unite against a common enemy. At his time, Nasser saw himself as Saladin, the great Arab military leader of his time. Nasser, dreaming of being the modern Saladin, played the Soviet card. Saddam Hussein, however, believed he could ride the wave of Western exchanges (oil for weapons). But the Jewish lobby was powerful in the U.S. Saddam realized too late and fell into the trap of the First Gulf War. This nearly destroyed Iraq’s military potential. But it was necessary to "finish the job." Using the false flag operation of September 11, the American Hawks launched the campaign to "liberate Iraq."

The film "The Heart of the War" was available on YouTube in two links, one in good resolution. They have since been disabled, like many others. I found the film in several parts on Dailymotion. Here is the first:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xbxatp_usa-irak-le-nerf-de-la-guerre-1-5_news

Absolutely worth watching. Briefly, during a second operation, conducted without the UN Security Council’s approval, the Americans invaded Iraq. Let’s look at the numbers.

Under Saddam, having imposed a secular regime, he killed a few hundred civilians per year. There was a gas attack against Kurdish civilians to maintain a climate of terror, etc.

Saddam Hussein imposing secularism in Iraq

The war against Iraq cost 4,000 American lives.

4,000 American G.I.s killed in Iraq

Plus several tens of thousands who returned... like this.

Since "Iraq was liberated," the situation has changed. Even Bush admitted that 5,000 Iraqi civilians now die each year. Others say it’s much higher. Millions of Iraqis have emigrated. Others were forced to leave their homes. It is said that after this war in Iraq, supposedly bringing "democracy" to the country, between 20 and 500 times more civilians die annually in the country.

But does the word "democracy" even have meaning in an Arab country? After the French left their colony, Indochina, the Americans took their place. They installed a puppet, Diem, a Catholic autocrat violently "anti-Buddhist," while the majority of the population was Buddhist.

Diem, the American puppet

His intransigence and terror-based rule contributed greatly to the escalation that once again plunged the country into war. Diem refused to hold nationwide elections, fearing a communist victory. He repressed Buddhists, burning their pagodas. Until in 1963, Buddhist monks decided to self-immolate upon realizing the truth (here, the first, aged 73).

The suicide of monk Thich Quang Duc in 1963

What does this have to do with Iraq? After Saddam’s overthrow, flight, capture, and eventual mockery of a trial and hanging, the Americans installed a new puppet. Instead of attempting to form a "national unity government," the new Shiite leader immediately began... repressing Sunnis, including former military and administrative elites of Saddam Hussein. The result: oppressed Sunnis and the former Saddam elite joined extremist groups, leading to the birth of:

The Islamic State.

Latest dramatic act: 90 killed on July 18, 2015 (yesterday), in a market 30 km from Baghdad, in a suicide bombing, using a car loaded with a ton of explosives, targeting the Shiite community.

Attack in Iraq on July 19, 2015

Today, men and women of the Earth seek a faith to turn toward.

You can enrich this page by mentioning the Vatican's scandals. You can also find these things yourself online. This Neanderthal institution should undergo serious reform, for example by allowing priests to marry, which would prevent legions of pedophiles from hiding their abuses within the institution. See, for example, the Legion of Christ, founded in South America by Father Maciel.

Father Marcial Maciel

See the account of Maciel's sexual abuses, known and ignored by the Vatican for thirty years, due to his effectiveness in providing young priests (nearly a thousand) to a religion in serious decline. A man "who did much good for the Church," highly appreciated by Pope John Paul II. His main activities included canonizing countless individuals worldwide before being himself declared a saint by Pope Benedict XVI.

In 27 years, John Paul II granted sainthood to 482 "blessed" individuals!

More than one per month, on average!

Similar unease arises when discussing the Vatican Bank, the IOR (Institute of Religious Works), which has served—and may still be serving—to launder Italian Mafia money. It is understandable that John Paul II’s successor, Benedict XVI—elected pope against his will (he was not a candidate)—chose to resign, given his predecessor’s constant travels, leaving the management of the Holy See to others. It is understandable that the current Pope Francis, who served in South America among poor parishes, put his life at risk after denouncing the Calabrian branch of the Mafia, the merciless Ndrangheta.

A simple clarification: in a recent video, the Dalai Lama confirmed that Pope Francis (as well as the Norwegian state) had refused to receive him, contenting themselves with saying, as a comment, "that it was his strict right."

September 2015. In its September-October issue, the magazine Nexus published, on pages 44 and 45, an article by Philippe Gaillard titled "Meeting with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama."

I reproduce below the article’s headline:

As spiritual leader of a religion that is also a science of the mind, the Dalai Lama has agreed to share his vision on organ donation with our special envoy at the recent World Compassion Summit, in July.

No comment.

Clearly, humanity longs for a new conception of man, seeking "its foundations and conclusions." (My own vision of the subject). Science, "the science of the Enlightenment," increasingly discredits itself. Like other religions (religare, Latin for "to bind"), it is an organized system of beliefs, thriving on all forms of corruption, masking its fears, serving all powers, complicit in all crimes by inventing ever-new ways to kill and enslave fellow humans, surrounded by silence, drowning in words while hiding its cracks behind the facade of virtual images.

Science without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Who said this? A man from the 15th century, François Rabelais.

Today, Science, where is your conscience?

As Candide, Voltaire’s hero, said: "If this universe is the best of all possible worlds, what then are the others?"

Science, like religion, deals with our final hours—science in its resuscitation units, religion in administering the last rites. This has become fashionable. Doctor Charbonnier, who runs a resuscitation unit, travels from city to city, recounting stories of NDEs (Near Death Experiences, or EMI in French). I remember my mother’s death, some thirty years ago, from liver cancer. One day, a doctor friend called me (I lived in Aix) and said:

• We discovered your mother had liver cancer. She has two to three months to live.

So I shuttled between Aix-en-Provence and the clinic in Saint-Tropez where she was hospitalized. She fell into a coma while I was in Aix. I immediately returned to Saint-Tropez, and she died about ten hours later. After her death, I found notes she had written and left in the drawer of her nightstand. I read them without understanding. Only years later did I connect them with the NDEs described in Patrick Van Eersel’s book, one of the first to speak about these phenomena in his book "The Black Source."


Patrice Van Eersel

Thinking back, my mother, who knew nothing about this, described all the "standards" of these near-death experiences, whose current champion in France is doctor Charbonnier, head of a resuscitation unit.

Doctor Charbonnier, anesthesiologist

Thinking back, my mother, who knew nothing about this...

As Charbonnier often says: "In units like ours, people die a lot." Until the number of intensive care units grew, NDE reports were rare. With medical advances, doctors have been able to revive patients whose flat electroencephalograms indicated "clinical death." According to Charbonnier, the NDE (or EMI) phenomenon is extremely common among people who venture into the "land of no life."

I won’t deny the phenomenon outright.


The young and talented director Sonia Barkallah

You can watch her film for free on YouTube: "False Departure"

But given the quantity, quality, and honesty of such work

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As a gesture of support for a company that is not easy, I believe this would be appropriate.

But one can dwell on the content of the "experiencers'" accounts. According to Charbonnier, most of them report a very positive, almost "paradisiacal" vision, consistent with the description provided by Eben Alexander, a neurologist who experienced a severe EMI (a week in a coma) and recounts it in his book "Proof of the Existence of Paradise." In his book "Seven Reasons to Believe in the Afterlife," Charbonnier also discusses unusual experiences lived by people who died before his eyes. For example, he speaks of a despicable businessman, notoriously corrupt, who continued mistreating his family and staff until the end, and who, in his final moments, seemed to experience deep terror "as if the flames of hell were licking his feet."

There are estimated to be 5 to 8% of "negative" EMI cases where subjects report extremely unpleasant experiences, having nothing to do with hearing celestial music (Eben Alexander) or witnessing "a warm, welcoming paradise." But how many people who have had such experiences actually speak out?

Personally, I would welcome such testimonies, guaranteeing anonymity to the authors.

Charbonnier concludes from his years of listening to "experiencers" that, ultimately, everything that happens to people is "as it must be." It’s a bit like the Buddhist view: everything that happens to anyone is fully deserved, predetermined. Everything is just experience, including the most horrific and unjust situations endured by some.

He once told me over dinner that Isabelle Adjani, interested in all these matters, had once gathered people from diverse backgrounds. Besides Charbonnier, a spokesperson for concentration camp survivors was present. When Charbonnier shared his views, the man left the room deeply shocked.

Eben Alexander goes much further. According to him, earthly life is merely a brief episode between two stays in paradise beyond. The universe is nothing but an ocean of love, with only a few small islands of evil scattered here and there. Why make such a fuss over all these human sufferings and pains? He talks about his own life. Abandoned by his mother as a child, he was adopted by a couple who had other children. Raised in a balanced and harmonious family environment, he still, as an adult, became determined to find his biological parents. Despite difficulties, with some help from administrative channels, he managed to identify and meet them.

And here we hit one of the vertiginous aspects of American moral thinking. Of course, when he was conceived, his biological parents were very young. The young mother was 17, the father 19. Yet they stayed together, married, had other children. But when the young mother became pregnant again, it posed a problem, as the young father wanted to attend university, which in the U.S. is very expensive. The solution, which immediately seemed logical to them, was therefore to abandon the child, which Eben’s mother did after one last visit to the nursery, hugging him tightly and saying, "I’m leaving you now, but I love you very much."

Eben Alexander thus reunites, as an adult, with his real father and real mother. The reunion goes very well. After the introductions between biological and adoptive families, the entire group forms one large family, a classic American happy ending. Since then, he has been giving lectures and interviews, explaining to anyone who will listen that death is merely a passport to Paradise, that everything is love. He has created a foundation and sells downloadable MP3s for $70, which, with minimal meditation, supposedly allow one to connect with Paradise. A world resembling the accessories of Barbie dolls, with angels in long gowns, heavenly music, etc.

Nevertheless, Alexander did experience the phenomenon. The difference is that what he describes doesn’t resemble the accounts of other experiencers and seems rather drawn from a very stereotypical imagination, yet one that sells very well in the U.S., where happy endings are beloved.

Recently, I spoke with a woman who had an NDE at age 19. She presented herself as a Buddhist, placing great importance on her diet, based on respect for life. Thus, she would only eat eggs if she were certain the chickens wouldn’t end up in a pot. She would likely have been astonished to learn that Tibetans, living at high altitudes where wheat is hard to grow, consume a lot of meat. But livestock, according to religious tradition, must be slaughtered by non-Buddhist butchers—specifically members of the Hui ethnic group, i.e., Muslims. I also wonder what a mother in the Sahel would think, holding a dying child in her arms, if she were told this subtlety about her dietary regimen. When I mentioned the close ties between the Dalai Lama and the Bush couple, her reaction was:

-It’s all about money. To spread an idea or a faith, you need resources. So you have to compromise. That’s what the Dalai Lama does.

Following this logic, the Roman Catholic Church prioritized its survival as an autonomous institution by signing the Lateran Accords with Fascist Benito Mussolini in 1929, and later remained deaf to repeated appeals from Jews, who provided proof throughout World War II, asking the Church to denounce the Nazi genocide. After the war, the Vatican served as a transit point—something Pope Pius XII could not have ignored—providing money and false identities to numerous Nazi war criminals. Thanks to this, they were able to reach Latin American countries where dictators needed trained personnel to structure police forces and death squads, enabling more effective suppression of the communist, secular movement.

And my table companion added:

-If you went preaching on the roads, who would you reach, except a few peasants?

The path of rigor can lead to crucifixion. I believe there has already been an example on this side.

I haven’t found exactly when the first biomolecule synthesis was performed, but I know that at one time, anything related to life seemed "God’s domain." Then biology emerged, along with the art and technique of creating copies of important molecules: insulin, vitamin B, etc. A technique that now has scientists so intoxicated that they don’t despair of creating life "in vitro." Today, medically assisted reproduction with embryo reimplantation is commonplace. If ethical concerns didn’t stand in the way, some might even envision "extra-uterine pregnancies," in the pure style of the best of all possible worlds.

Others are already considering implanting animal neuron clusters into brains losing their own due to Alzheimer’s disease (though, in cardiac surgery, we already implant pig valves, and dentists use pig bone fragments to fill bone deficiencies, which once caused serious trouble for one of my friends with an ultra-orthodox Muslim client).

Elsewhere, immortality is the order of the day. Artificial femoral heads are already an old technique. Shoulder and knee joints with non-corrosive materials and plastic-like cartilage: common practice. Soon, like many people my age, I’ll need to replace my crystalline lenses, which are clouding due to early cataracts, with implants.

How far will we go?

While humanity remains incapable of addressing its real problems—millions of people continue to die of hunger, we kill each other in ever more sophisticated ways, and the "progress" of our sciences and technologies comes with deadly environmental consequences—we tinker with the "man of the future," dreaming of robots endowed with intelligence ("capable of recognizing their enemies on the battlefield"), creativity, and even, to quote Nobel laureate in biology Edelman, with... consciousness—though we are unable to define what we mean by that.

Nobel Prize in Medicine Edelman

If we let geneticists have free rein, they could perform pre-selection of offspring.

- Do you want a boy? A girl? Eyes, what color? Any preference?

In recent years, a "science of death," a thanatology, has emerged. This reminds me of the amusing book "The Thanatonauts," published in the 1990s by Bernard Weber. Yet, for official science, the afterlife does not exist. But, by Jove, how many strange things there are in the accounts of patients who have journeyed along the banks of the Styx.

So, what next?

It’s up to you. Some blow themselves up to escape an existence they find unbearable and reach more quickly the paradise promised by their god. Their thinkers and guides, bearded, quote verses like:

Source: The Quran. Payot & Rivages Editions, 2001.

Sura 3: The Family of Imran. Verse 13, page 227

13. For those who fear Allah, there will be gardens beneath which rivers flow. They will dwell there forever. They will have pure spouses, and the favor of Allah.

Sura 78, "The New," page 463

31. Indeed, for those who fear Allah, there is a place of happiness.

32. Gardens with shade, vineyards.

33. Virgin women with round, firm breasts, of the same age as them.

Surah 55, "The Most Merciful," page 349:

54. They will rest on beds whose coverings are brocade, and the fruits of the garden will be easily accessible.

55. There will be young virgins with modest eyes, untouched by man or jinn.

56. They will be like rubies, like coral.

57. There will be springs of flowing water.

58. In two gardens there will be fruits, palm trees, and pomegranates.

59. In these two gardens will be beautiful, noble women.

60. Virgins with large black eyes, secluded in their tents.

61. No man or jinn has ever deflowered them.

Surah 44, "The Smoke," page 279:

50. Indeed, the righteous will be in a safe place.

51. They will be dressed in silk and fine cloth, seated facing each other.

52. Thus it will be! And We will grant them as spouses women with large black eyes.

Surah 38, "Sad," pages 221, 222:

51. They will rest on thrones and have abundant fruits and drinks at their request.

52. Beside them will be women who lower their eyes modestly.

53. And they will be told: "This is what was promised to you on the Day of Accounting."

54. This is for the blessed! And indeed, for the wicked, there will be a miserable dwelling place.

55. Hell! They will be burned in it. What a wretched rest they will have!

56. This is what they taste: scalding water and pus!

And so on...

What must one do to avoid ending up cooked in boiling water like a lobster, and instead attain such bliss?

Surah 8, "The Spoils," page 393:

39. Say to those who disbelieve: If they repent, their sins will be forgiven. But if they return to evil, the law will be applied to them.

40. Fight them until there is no more disbelief and religion is entirely for Allah.

This is jihad, and its mention as an obligation for Muslims in the Qur'an is countless.

For those who still see the Qur'an as a work whose message breathes peace, consider these surahs:

Surah 8, "The Spoils"

12 (page 389): Then your Lord inspired the angels: "Indeed, I am with you; strengthen those who believe. I will instill terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. I will strike their necks and strike them on all their fingertips."

13 (page 389): This because they opposed Allah and His Messenger... Indeed, Allah is severe in punishment for those who oppose Him and His Messenger.

Allusion to the beheading of opponents and apostates.

Surah 47: Muhammad

4 (page 296): When you encounter those who disbelieve, strike their necks until you have completely slaughtered them, and bind them firmly.

Thus, "extremist Islamists" who behead unbelievers and threaten those who do not convert with the same fate are merely following the Qur'an's sacred precepts literally—not making reckless extrapolations from religious leaders.

My wife often says: "When Jean-Pierre wants to explain how to make an omelet, he starts by talking about the chicken's unhappy childhood. But don’t worry—by the end of his explanation, he’ll return to his original topic."

Let us return then to the case of the Dalai Lama. You can easily find numerous videos online where you hear his own words. I believe the most shocking is one where, when asked about the legitimacy of the Iraq War, he bursts into laughter. It’s the laugh of a man uncomfortable with himself, long engaged in double-dealing. When you see him, draped in maroon robes, feasting at George Bush’s table in his stronghold, you can only acknowledge his boundless tolerance—especially since during a visit to Israel, much to the dismay of his hosts, he declared that his compassion included figures like Hitler.

In a video you can easily find, when questioned about this generalized compassion, surrounded by smiling, devout followers drinking in his every word, the holy man stammers and says nonsense.

Yes, in his speeches, you can find anything and its opposite. In the background lies the theme of karma—the idea that through reincarnation after reincarnation, human beings progress through trial and error. In one life, they enjoy the benefits of good deeds from past lives; in another, they pay for misdeeds from previous existences. And thus, "they progress."

Undoubtedly, then, George Bush, living comfortably, must have done good in past lives, while Iraqi civilians likely have something to atone for. There must be an explanation somewhere.

Aix-en-Provence hosts a large community of Tibetan Buddhist "Bobos." I think of an old neighbor who became a Buddhist; one day she fell and broke her wrist in her kitchen. Nowadays, we no longer use plaster—we "insert pins." She was operated on, and then—crack!—she fell again in the same kitchen, at the same spot, and this time, breaking her wrist also damaged the nerve responsible for hand mobility, which now hangs limp.

What expression would she have made, she who was quick to invoke the law of karma when facing others' misfortunes, if someone had suggested that in a past life she had done something shady with that hand? Fortunately, over time, she regained her mobility.

I recall another Aixois Buddhist whose house was stripped bare, its walls white. But in her living room stands a single photograph of her taken with the Dalai Lama (this ostentation is not very Buddhist, by the way). One day, I witnessed a conversation between her and a friend and fellow believer who had just undergone breast cancer surgery. Full of compassion, she firmly declared to her: "You must now positively embrace what is happening to you and understand what benefit you can draw from this experience sent to you."

Another time, a devout member of this large community returned from India, where in an ashram she had received answers to the questions she had posed. When asked about the world's disorders, she replied:

Facing this deteriorating global situation that risks escalating into total conflagration, we must meditate so as to be better positioned for our next reincarnation.

I regret having given one of these silly "spiritualists" a black-and-white album I bought during my visit to Alexandra David-Neel’s home in Digne. It contains many photos of the Dalai Lama’s entourage at the beginning of the century, dressed in heavy, gold-embroidered robes that would not have looked out of place in the Vatican’s Saint Peter’s Museum, where papal vestments are displayed. In an era of absolute theocracy, serfdom, and complete intellectual enslavement of a totally illiterate population, the Dalai Lama of that time resembled more an Indian Maharajah than today’s figure dressed in traditional monastic robes.

The Dalai Lama, "Ocean of Wisdom," is the Tartuffe, the Pangloss of spirituality. Let us quote Doctor Pangloss’s words to Candide:

It is true that particular small evils make for the general good. Thus, the more particular small evils there are, the better things are in the best of all possible worlds.

Regarding the Dalai Lama, here are other bells ringing.

Asselineau does not mince words. Witness this video. But the map he shows is eloquent. Tibet is a strategically vital region. It is highly likely that if a "free Tibet" had emerged, with the Dalai Lama as political leader, American military bases would have been immediately established there, in close proximity to China. As Asselineau rightly notes, Tibet’s altitude of 5,000 meters makes it an important missile launch platform. Indeed, a shot fired from such height encounters fewer dense air layers, resulting in fuel savings. Strategically, the Chinese could not allow Americans to occupy this key platform.

A schism is emerging within the Tibetan exile community. Tibetan religion is a complex blend of Buddhism and animism, with devotion directed toward certain deities. In this sense, it bears resemblance to Hinduism. From this perspective, the fact that four million Tibetans turn primarily to a deity called Dorje Shugden should not pose a particular metaphysical problem.

Dorje Shugden

The Tibetan Buddhist pantheon is vast. A classic practice in Tibetan religion is consulting the Nechung oracle. The term comes from a monastery where the deity Pehar Gyalpo manifested through a monk entering a trance.

The deity Pehar Gyalpo (painting at Nechung Monastery)

Monk Thubten is the official oracle for Tibetans in exile. He is consulted especially during the Tibetan New Year. He then dons a heavy, elaborate costume. His gestures, dance, and drum rhythms allow him, like a medium, to enter a trance. His assistants listen to his words or hand him scraps of paper where he records his prophecies or divinations. This activity is extremely exhausting, and after the trance, he must undergo a full recovery period.

Monk Thubten in trance (2014)

Returning to the deity Dorje Shugden, this entity has reportedly appeared in multiple incarnations throughout history, inhabiting the bodies of lamas. The current Dalai Lama was initiated into the worship of Dorje Shugden in 1951. Nevertheless, traditionally, the Dalai Lama is regarded as a terrestrial incarnation of the divine. In the Tibetan exile community, living in Dharamsala, northern India, the Dalai Lama’s pronouncements in his "government in exile" are associated with what amounts to "papal infallibility," similar to that once enjoyed by the Popes (surprisingly, this infallibility—whose roots go back to the earliest days of Roman Catholicism—was confirmed at the Vatican Council in 1870).

Everything would have proceeded without incident if the faction of Tibetans turning toward the deity Dorje Shugden had not also envisioned a lasting coexistence and even collaboration between Tibetans and Chinese. The Dalai Lama did not denounce these followers as "Peking agents," right or wrong (I imagine the response would have been immediate). Instead, he struck at the metaphysical level by pronouncing an equivalent of excommunication, forbidding this worship and branding it "demonic." This video shows the Dalai Lama declaring this ban during a speech in Dharamsala before many monks. The tone is sharp, the instructions strict and severe. Monks who disobey are barred from holy sites. Orders are given to the population to express their rejection in every possible way. This is far from Buddhist tolerance. Thus, within a spiritual movement that initially opposed dogma, a schism emerges.

As we see, therefore, a deity like Pehar Gyalpo holds a prominent place in the official Tibetan Buddhist pantheon, while Dorje Shugden is relegated by the Dalai Lama to the status of malevolent entity.

Religions are free services. One can use them for the best or the worst. I created a 550-page comic adaptation, published by a man I would have preferred never to meet. We are currently reclaiming the rights to this work. Below are a few pages from the epilogue:

In passing, you can download the PDF of "The Crazy History of God" and, if you feel moved, send me a few euros to JP-Petit, BP 55, 84120, Pertuis.

I hope, and believe, that by creating this work, I have done something useful—placing before believers, Jews or Christians, followers of the "Religion of the Book," the texts upon which their faith is based. Earlier, I said that in the Dalai Lama’s speeches one can find anything and its opposite. The same applies to the Qur'an and the Jewish Torah. When I published my comic Bible, Jews accused me of relying on Bible excerpts from "biased" translations. I quickly acquired the same Bible (the Old Testament, published by Librairie Colbo, 3 rue Richer, Paris), featuring the translation from the French Rabbinical Council under Grand Rabbi Zadoc Kahn.

Indeed, when I created this comic, while eventually citing original texts and references, I could not summarize two thousand pages of text in such a way. I thus omitted the Psalms of David, which seemed more like "Thank you, Lord, for providing milk and honey," etc.

But a reader cited a passage worth reproducing: References: Psalms of David, 137-8

Daughter of Babylon, doomed to ruin, happy is he who repays you with the harm you have done. Happy is he who seizes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks.

We have seen a similar scene on the platform at Auschwitz, when Dr. Mengele, grabbing Jewish babies by their feet, smashed their heads against the ground.

To close this parenthesis, I found it appropriate to quote excerpts from Jacob Kaplan’s preface, Grand Rabbi of France, speaking of "Israel, the branch upon which the faith of humanity has been grafted. People of God, they are thus the prophetic people among nations."

And further on, the end of his preface, dated January 25, 1966:

But among all the prophecies in the Book, one is often mentioned. It concerns the resurrection of the State of Israel. When, in November 1947, the United Nations decided to create a Jewish state, for many believers this event appeared in a supra-terrestrial perspective. So many predictions had foretold—since millennia—the return of Israel to its ancestral land that they could not help but see in this historic vote a striking manifestation of divine action in the world. Moreover, the day after the proclamation of Israel’s independence (May 14, 1948), which was a Sabbath, the liturgical cycle, by a coincidence worth noting, designated as Haphtara a passage from the prophet Amos where it reads: "Behold, days are coming, says the Lord, when I will restore the captives of My people Israel. They will rebuild their destroyed cities and dwell in them, plant vineyards and drink their wine, cultivate gardens and eat their fruits (IX-13 and 14)." As the Bible itself says, God’s word is valid for eternity. For us Jews, it is a permanent prophecy, which we will always follow with emotion as its marvelous fulfillment unfolds.

For more on the history of Palestine, see my dossier "The Land of Suffering and Hatred".

Indeed, it matters little whether one is of a certain color, ethnicity, or creed. What truly counts is the generosity of people, their concern to do good around them, to establish an atmosphere of justice and fairness, their detachment from luxury and excess. There is no need to seek out a guru, a mullah, a rabbi, or a bishop to discern good from evil. All this is inscribed in the hearts of men and women, and those who ignore this inner law are simply deaf and blind.

I will conclude by citing an example of generosity that amazed us. Along with my old friend Gilles d’Agostini (co-author of our scientific works), we created

http://www.savoir-sans-frontieres.com

Thanks to donations of 10–20 euros from ordinary citizens—over 60,000 euros total—we have so far paid for 425 translations of my Lanturlu albums, made available for free download in 37 languages (a fact no media has ever reported).

For two years, a young professional translator has been working to expand a rather sparse list, though the albums appear to be widely read in Arab countries (see the download page, currently down due to a hacker’s actions). You’ll find her photo in the section dedicated to Arabic translations.

Since the creation of Savoir sans Frontières, I’ve been surprised that no wealthy emir has said: "Well, this is all very useful. Let’s translate all these albums into Arabic. For that, let’s contact a translation company and not worry about cost."

To which Nassima responded immediately:

Do you think so? These wealthy elites don’t wish to free their brothers from ignorance, in order to keep their power!

And she courageously began translating album after album. When we tried to pay her (now 180 euros per album), she always preferred to transfer the money to an Italian friend in need. She simply says she was raised in the Muslim tradition by her father and is herself a Muslim. Her photo appears on the site. Facing a man, this determined woman with dark eyes does not lower her gaze.

September 9, 2015. I now write quite rarely on my website. But recently, I watched a television program—though I can’t recall which channel—that presented a subject I had never seen before: the sexual activity of soldiers in the field or garrison. It’s quite staggering. We’ve all heard of "BMCs" (Military Brothels). The report features testimonies from French military personnel responsible for soldier recreation during the Algerian War. A faint smile occasionally crosses some faces—perhaps to mask their discomfort with this less-than-illustrious aspect of troop conduct.

Morale must be maintained. To do so, soldiers must occasionally have sex, get their release. All of this is arranged and managed locally by local pimps. The girls receive a salary for each encounter. The French military officer gives a figure: "one prostitute per 100 soldiers." Each session is brief—10 minutes—and they go on, and on. Counting ten ejaculations per hour and ten hours of work, that’s a hundred "pious" encounters daily on the body of the state-run prostitute. A military doctor, discussing hygiene inspections, said some prostitutes’ vaginas were so "toughened" that he had difficulty taking a smear sample.

Another recounted the vagina of a minor girl, whose too-short canal had been torn open by a well-endowed soldier.

We then shift to the Vietnam War. On the American scale, things were both less crude and far more organized. Soldiers were entitled, on a regular basis, to a comfortable stay at a "recreation center," complete with rooms and an aquarium-like setup where prostitutes—located in Thailand—wore identical white outfits and bore only a number. The soldier would choose, and the service would assign the young woman to his room.

During the Vietnam War, Americans thus secured the services of 300,000 Thai prostitutes, of course with the cooperation of local authorities. When the war ended, these activities accounted for a non-negligible portion of the country’s GDP. As a result, the government suggested to these young women—unqualified and now unemployed—to "retrain in entertainment." Thus, we see the origin of active sex tourism in these Eastern countries. The same applies to the "red-light districts" of major Japanese cities, which also thrived during the conflict.

The report then discusses how organized, completely uncontrolled prostitution helps maintain morale among peacekeeping forces—UN troops. Prostitutes testify: for a normal session: this much. If you want to beat the girl: that much. If you want to kill her: that much.

Investigations: nothing. These are lawless regions where soldiers from vastly different nations are stationed. There is thus no fixed legal framework that any police force can enforce.

Courageous attempts by female police officers (several were assassinated) to demand measures—such as against two Pakistani soldiers who had committed such excesses on young girls, resulting in their deaths—have failed. The commentator adds: "The commanders of peacekeeping forces fear that punishing offenders might deter future volunteers for maintaining peace in these parts of the globe."

In short, wherever conflicts rage, intense prostitution arises, often involving kidnapped, beaten, and murdered girls. A profitable, active complicity develops between UN officials and local pimps. In summary, if you wish to indulge in your sexual excesses with complete impunity and at no cost, join a peacekeeping force whose mission is to maintain peace in some part of the world.

In this report, we hear the words of an American pimp from Las Vegas, who unhesitatingly declares, displaying fervent patriotism:

If only we were allowed to go to Afghanistan, my girls and I would boost soldier morale so much that the war would be quickly won.

In Syria and Iraq, ISIS is raging. Men who stone women who disobey their laws turn captives from other ethnicities into sex slaves, selling them cheaply like livestock.

Fearful beings flee this blind violence, attempting to reach European countries. And yet our politicians are more verbose when speaking of humanitarian duties than when identifying the true perpetrators of these terrifying disasters—men seated at the table with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, feasting and laughing. The most odious thing is hearing the immensely wealthy Bernard-Henri Lévy join this chorus, despite being the chief architect of the bombings that completely dismantled Libya, once held by a man—Gaddafi—who managed, however imperfectly, to maintain order in that clan-ridden land. With him gone, as Saddam Hussein was before, these worlds turned into nightmares. We regret we cannot charter a powerful troop transport to bring those now politely called "migrants" to the port of New York, and say to the American government: "Here is your work. Now, face its consequences."

We are entering a dark age, under the gaze of beings from other worlds who watch us begin our own destruction. And our scientists—or those who claim to be—remain the most blind and the most cowardly among us.

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