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".
Revered by millions of Buddhists around the world, and regarded by his many supporters as a visionary in the vein of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama was speaking three days after the far-right populist party Sweden Democrats made gains in the country's general election on Sunday.
The anti-immigration party came in third, behind Prime Minister Stefan Lofven's Social Democrats and the opposition conservative Moderates in the Nordic nation which in 2015 took in the highest number of asylum seekers per capita in Europe.
I say this as a Christian, you are a better man than the Pope of the Vatican who protects pedophiles. I'd much rather listen to the Dalai Lama speak then any of the faithless, soulless corrupt 'leaders' we have 'representing' us.
Amen.
Nicholas Evans
Mr. Dalai Lama tell America and Israel to stop destabilize the refugees' countries.
Hudson Watson
He should say this too, or maybe he already has and the media won't report it.
Thomas Ward
He's a Tibetan nationalist. This shouldn't surprise anyone. Of course, by "Europeans" he wasn't implying White people. Just people who were born and raised in Europe vs migrants from shithole countries.
Ayden Lewis
He knows that the devils who laid waste to his own land and have assiduously attempted to destroy his own people and his own culture are the very same devils scheming and plotting to destroy our people and our culture.
Since the characteristics of whitey became so distinct from the other races, shitskin. Wanna argue semantics all day or would you rather get back to taking your wife's son out to collect a welfare check while your wife is porked by jamal?
do you want some spiritual advice? do you really want some spiritual enlightenment? do you really really want it? … me too.
just know when to ditch a bad scene. if bombs and shit are going off then its best to get the fuck out. pay attention to the leader that takes over said country you got run out of. if its a big jerk in charge with terrible laws then don't go back. plenty of places you can live you life in peace. just do a bit of research before you immigrate. find your good times.
Lots of people mix that one up, but it doesn't make his whole argument moot. Non Europeans should go to their countries of origin so they can live in it and be happy. If their goal is to change Europe into being more like their home land, then it's not welcome. It's no more welcome for them to do that, than it is for Europeans to go to their shit holes and make it more European, right?
Asher Green
wow
David Parker
do not forget to praise tmh shalam washhashi and brothers of the millstone, etc etc. Da evil so called white esau edomite blah blah we wuz kangs n sheeit
Chinese and Europeans out of South Africa. Middle-Easterns out of Europe.
Let America be "land of the free," where anyone can settle. America has no heritage: It must be built. It must be the land where anyone can live.
But allow Europe to be European, and the Asian lands to be Asian, and the African lands and Mid-East lands belong to those whose skin matches the level of sun.
The sun is above us all, and it is the sun that determines our land.
Dark skin: Go south. Light skin: Go north.
That's the way of the sun.
Lincoln Hill
But they will be begging us to be growing their food when we leave
Nicholas Thompson
aloha snackbar
Tyler Hughes
no the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.
