New Kadampa Truth SA

Who is the Western Shugden Society?
Why are they aggressively protesting against the Dalai Lama?
Why are they calling the Dalai Lama a saffron robed Muslim and a Buddhist dictator?

After my personal experience with the WSS I can verify that the NKT are largely behind these demonstrations and hide behind the Western Shugden Society so as to escape the negative press, but here are a few points to consider.

That the Western Shugden Society was probably funded by the New Kadampa Tradition (NKT), an UK charity trust, is indicated by these signs:

• Press speaker: Kelsang Pema - personal assistant to Geshe Kelsang Gyatso for more than 8 years
• Front man and leader in the USA: Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab - Deputy Spiritual Director of the NKT
• Front woman and leader in USA: Gen Kelsang Dekyong - National Spiritual Director of NKT USA
• Front man and leader in Germany: Gen Kelsang Ananda - National Spiritual Director of NKT Germany
• Leader in Australia: Gen Kelsang Rabten - National Spiritual Director of NKT Australia
• Geshe Kelsang Gyatso has asked all his students by email to participate the protests. Among other things he wrote in one of his emails: “[...] To stop this evil action, as the representative of the Western Shugden Society, I personally will organise demonstrations against the Dalai Lama directly. I requested Kelsang Pema and Kelsang Thubchen to do this job for me and they have accepted. Please help Pema and Thubchen with whatever they need. With much love and prayers, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso”. (see Buddhism under assault)
• Lucy James (USA), official editor of Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s books and Resident Teacher for several NKT centers, who did not encourage her students thoroughly enough, was immediately removed by Geshe Kelsang from her position as a NKT resident teacher. So there seems to be pressure to local NKT resident teachers to convince their members to go to the protests.
• The identity of the website of the Western Shugden Society is made hidden via proxy server (Domains by Proxy), however some media data in the files refer to “Tharpa”, a NKT enterprise, which publishes only Geshe Kelsang Gyatso’s books, and to a translator of Kelsang Gyatso’s books in Spain.
• The past media campaign of the New Kadampa Tradition (1996-1998) against the Dalai Lama was performed under the label Shugden Supporters Community (SSC) and NKT tried likewise to hide their identity.

Is waving your hands in the air calling the Dalai Lama a hypocrite and a lier the sort of thing you would expect from pure Kadampas?