Dalai Lama defends Islam

News Type: Event — Seeded on Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:36 PM EDT

Article Source: The Sydney Morning Herald

The Dalai Lama said today "it's totally wrong, unfair" to call Islam a violent religion.

The Tibetan spiritual leader, appearing at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, offered a defence of Islam in response to a question about the rise of violent religious fundamentalism.

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