[Buddha-l] "Buddhist propaganda"

[Curt Steinmetz]

I'm wondering how many people can tell the difference between the 
following two statements.

1. Westerners have consistently misunderstood and misrepresented Buddhism.

2. A sinister cabal of Buddhist monastic intellectuals and their 
brainwashed western academic stooges have engaged in a systematic 
propaganda campaign to defraud the general public by hiding the Dark 
Side of Buddhism from the world.

Just curious.

Curt Steinmetz