Yes, my stand is I respect HH Dalai Lama, even he is not my guru or never meet him once. I respect him as a great being.
By calling HH Dalai Lama would definitely make his followers angry, hurt his followers' feeling. We all do not like other call our here, our guru or someone they respect bad names or something like this.
This might create hatred from followers or students of HH Dalai Lam. I can imagine this to happen as well. However from one point, I think to label HH Dalai Lama with this bad name got "advantages" as well...
For HH Dalai Lama who almost equal to a King, to Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan Guru, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate...and so many are suffered from the ban which repress, discriminate and harm so many..
To tell the world HH Dalai Lama who is a champion for religious freedom at the same time launch a religious ban? It that an easy job? No, I don't think so. To tell the world an emanation of Buddha of Compassion, the ban he launched has hurt so many? How many will believe in you?
To cast something contradict and tell the world, especially through the media, in this case Western media, "there are some truth you do not know", then it would attract the media to dig the story, to tell the story to the world. And from here the media learn more about the Shugden practice, the ban, the sufferings, bias, cruelty, and etc started from the ban...
To say HH Dalai Lama lying is something hard to do, for me. However especially in Western country with background of culture revealing anything that's unfair...no matter or at least not so much matter who you are, is not that "rebellious" compare to Tibetan or Eastern culture.
Is there's a better approach, if the sufferings of innocent people is not until life threaten, lives ruined, family divided, family divided, I would not agree to this labelling HH Dalai Lama as a liar...