http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/1817 Documenting the Persecution of the Baha'i Community in Iran Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:45:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/1817/comment-page-1#comment-984 Donald Addison, Ph.D Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:23:05 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=1817#comment-984 I am an American Indian from a very ancient and proud people, the Choctaw tribe, who have had to weather many centuries of bitter storms in order to survive, with various over-lords and colonial powers including the Spanish, the French.and the British. We've had to become a spiritual people who had to work very hard to stop all British and other European attempts to colonize us. So I hope more people will work hard and pray that Iran will stop the madness and begin to accept the Baha'is as the peace-loving people that they truly are. I deeply admire the Iranian Baha'is and I am assigning all my 400-some anthropology students eacb term to do research papers on these momentous days and these deeply spiritually advanced peoples and admirable descendants of the Dawn-Breakers. I pray for these deeply beloved Iranian long-suffering peoples all the powerful and spitual moving stories of sacrifice desplayed by Persian Baha'is today. May my life be a sacrifice to brkng hem relief. Dr. Don Addison (Choctaw believer in Baha'u'llah.) I am an American Indian from a very ancient and proud people, the Choctaw
tribe, who have had to weather many centuries of bitter storms in order to
survive, with various over-lords and colonial powers including the Spanish, the
French.and the British. We’ve had to become a spiritual people who had to work very hard to stop all British and other European attempts to
colonize us. So I hope more people will work hard and pray that Iran will stop the madness and begin to accept the Baha’is as the peace-loving people that they truly are. I deeply admire the Iranian Baha’is and I am assigning all my 400-some anthropology students eacb term to do research papers on these momentous days and these deeply spiritually advanced peoples and admirable descendants of the Dawn-Breakers. I pray for these deeply beloved Iranian long-suffering peoples all the powerful and spitual moving stories of sacrifice desplayed by Persian
Baha’is today. May my life be a sacrifice to brkng hem relief. Dr. Don Addison (Choctaw believer in Baha’u'llah.)

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