A tough question about recent events.
I just wrote this as a comment on a local web site:
If the D. Lama is as committed to peace and non-violence as he claims, it would be nice if he would ask his followers not to beat the crap out of Lhasa’s Hui Muslims. Has he spoken out about this, and if not, why not?
(For an article with eyewitness accounts, look at the Christian Science Monitor, and go to the blog mentioned in the article, which is by an American Chinese guy.)
Does lack of comment mean tacit approval? Or is he afraid of asking people who supposedly follow him to do something they really don’t want to do, for fear of finding out he really has no influence over them? Or is he afraid of alienating them?