Yesterday the British National Party placed a picture on its website of Nick Griffin and the Dalai Lama side by side, in a ludicrous attempt to convince the reader that there were vague similarities between the two. We took a closer look...The Dalai Lama:
- is the reincarnation of Cherenzig, the bodhisattva of compassion
- is the former head of the Tibetan government
- is often referred to as 'His Holiness'
- is a Nobel Peace Price laureate
- was proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the thirteenth Dalai Lama at the age of two
- is a charismatic figure and noted public speaker
- is the first to travel to the West
- has helped to spread Buddhism and to promote the concepts of universal responsibility, secular ethics, and religious harmony
- has strong ties with University of Wisconsin-Madison in Madison, Wisconsin, United States, and is a frequent visitor there
- met privately with Pope Benedict XVI. He has also met the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, and other leaders of the Anglican Church in London, as well as senior Eastern Orthodox Church, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, and Sikh officials. He met in 2006 with the Chief Rabbi of Israel
- has received numerous awards over his spiritual and political career
- is the son of Edgar and Jean Griffin. Edgar Griffin took him to his first National Front meeting when he was fifteen and his mother stood for the BNP in 2001. Not much compassion there.
- is the leader of the fascist British National Party and used to be a used-car salesman
- is often referred to as an anti-semitic bastard
- has a third-class degree in something tedious that nobody cares about
- was proclaimed the leader of the BNP after disposing of the former leader, nazi John Tyndall, through character assassination and double-dealing
- has no charisma to speak of and is about as good a public speaker as Donald Duck with laryngitis
- is the first BNP leader to travel to Croatia
- has helped to spread racism, anti-semitism and religious disharmony
- has strong ties with virtually every racist group in Europe and the States, including the Ku Klux Klan
- met frequently with Jean-Marie Le Pen, David Duke, and other far-right lunatics. He met Muammar al-Gaddafi while trying (unsuccessfully) to scrounge money off him
- has received no awards for anything, being generally useless and a racist buffoon
