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Religious Leaders and Pedophilia: There Are Many More Men Like The Dalai Lama Than We Care To Admit
And we should all be very concerned.
We awoke to the shocking images of the Dalai Lama asking a young kid to suck his tongue.
For the longest time, the spiritual leader of the Tibet has attracted great sympathy and support to his cause with the likes of King Charles III being a strident supporter. And Britain’s new monarch has never been afraid to invite the monk to the palace for talks and photo opportunities much to the consternation of the People’s Republic of China.
But should we all be surprised by that disgusting footage from the Dalai Lama? And isn’t this behaviour more common place than we care to admit?
I pose these questions because the Dalai Lama isn’t the only one here with plenty of form on the subject matter of pedophilia.
Mahatma Gandhi is an interesting case in point.
The great soul as he was referred to, did quite a great deal of good in the world: he was the man whose…