Unbelievable ignorance and prejudice. We must combat this type of misinforma-tion with knowledge and love. We must seek out justice for the Baha’is by petitioning the leaders of our countries to call for an end to this persecution of a religious group whose primary goal is the unity of humankind.

Remember Mona!

Interestingly, though it was intended as a insult, the Ayatollah’s statement that “the Baha’is are outside of Islam” is an implicit recognition that Baha’i Faith is not a sect of Islam but is an independent Faith. Just thought I’d mention it.

How tragic & sad, in this enlightened age, to read statements essentially condemning a whole group of gentle, peaceful people simply because they have spiritual beliefs that differ from the general population of the land. The Holy Qu’ran states: “And be good to your parents and relatives, and to orphans and paupers, and to neighbors close by and neighbors remote, and to the companion at your side, and to the traveler, and to your wards, For God does not love the arrogant, the boastful, those who are avaricious, or make others avaricious, and conceal what God has given them of divine grace.” (Surih of Women 36-40)
The Holy Qu’ran is filled with other passages calling upon Muslims to show kindness and goodness to others.
It is my hope and prayer that the Baha’is in Iran will find peace and be granted all rights and privileges on par with other citizens of that land.
Peace,
Jim Ferguson

OMG, this statement reminds me how whites in the U.S.A treated Hispanics and blacks. Andrew Jackson believed in manifest Destiny, White being the superior race. I did’nt think i was going to see such foolishness from a leader of any country in my lifetime. This is the way to control and brain wash muslims. They are confusing them with religous explanations that can’t be backed by the Koran.It’s like Muslims are the only children of God. Prophet Mohammad is just a prophet. God is God, and only God has the authority to say what’s wrong and what’s right. These Ayatollahs are tyrants. Ayatolla komanei is British descent and not a true Iranian. Syand up Iranians because you are not Arabs but Persians. You deserve your country ruled by who the people of Iran choose. The Iranian people deserve to preserve thier History and heritage.

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It is a fact that thousands of people have been persecuted by their own religious leaders. That this happens is not new.Look at the history of the catholic church:
during the time of the inquisition, faithfull people were tortured in devlish ways in order to make them confess that they cooperated with some devil, of other nonsense. So also happens in the muslim world. In the family of true believers in God, there are no leaders or subordinated, because all faithfull are equal in the eyes of God. People with the ambition to be a leader are by definition no true believers, because real believers serve their fellow men. It is getting time that believers learn to see the danger of so called leaders in a religious world: they always have other purposes.

The fact that the Bahai Faith has no clergy, and that Baha’u'llah the founder of the Bahai Faith has abolished the leadership of the clergy, must worry the Islamic clergy, hence the persecution of the Bahais. They must feel that their power and clout, is threatened by the growing influence of the Bahais, and of the growth of the Bahai Faith worldwide. The Ayatollahs proclaim spirituality, then act contrary to the very tenets of Islam, which they profess to uphold and champion. This is certainly hypocrisy of the worst kind. The prophet Muhammad must be watching and weeping.

I think the clergy should read the Baha’i writings a bit more.
“A thought of hatred must be destroyed by a more powerful thought of love.” —Bahá’u'lláh

This is more horrifying than any previous comment poster has recognized. When I saw in the lead that the ayatollahs are “warning people against business dealings with the Baha’is” my mind immediately summoned the pictures of Nazi Stormtroopers standing in front of graffiti-defaced stores holding signs reading “Deutsche! Wehrt euch! Kauft nicht bei Juden!” (Germans! Protect yourselves! Don’t buy from Jews!).

This action was followed by the infamous Nuremberg Laws, separating Jews from the society and denying their rights as German citizens. Eventually, of course, the actions led to the Nazis’ attempt to destroy every Jew in the lands that they ruled. It was the Holocaust.

Last September, the Baha’i International Community issued a report, “The Baha’i Question: Cultural Cleansing in Iran.” Get it at http://news.bahai.org/human-rights/iran/the-bahai-question.html. This report will help you to put what you are reading about Iranian Baha’is in perspective.

To me, the most chilling sentence in this report was this: “International experts on ethnic, racial or religious cleansing have identified a number of warning signs that often foreshadow widespread purges.” The signs include classifying minorities into “us versus them” categories, dehumanizing them in the media, organization of hate groups and “preparation” for extermination.

Human beings! Protect yourselves!

Who follows these clowns? Are these really statement made by the clergy or are they really that stupid?

I do not know much about the Baha’i sect, but it just sounds dumb for anyone to follow these idiots who call themselves men of God. Let this be a lesson to this country not to ever allow us to fall prey to the ways of these psycho-religious figures who want to push their ideology on the rest of us. I do not know if there is a God or not, but if this is what the religions teach, I do not want to have anything to do with it.

As dumb as these Ayatollahs are, the ones who follow them are even dumber. Oh, how they need help.

I’m seeing remnants of the policies advocated by Hitler about the Jews.

It disgusts me, and at the same time, gives me chills to the spine.

Farnaz

Twitter @farnazfanaian

I heard something interesting recently. There are two Baha’i books that the Shi’ihs of Iran particularly afraid of and hate: the Kitab-i-Iqan, and Kitab-i-Fara’id (the Kitab i Iqan by Baha’u'llah and the Kitab i Fara’id by Mirza Abul Fadl)

The Hujjatiyeh society actually holds a 3 year class, I don’t remember what the other part of the class constitutes, but the first year alone is spent on studying and reading the Kitab i Iqan to refute it.

For those of you who don’t know or remember, The Kitab-i-Iqan was written by Baha’u'llah a year before He declared His mission, and it was written in response to a series of questions posed by an uncle of The Bab. Soon after Baha’u'llah had revealed the Kitab i Iqan, the Shayku’l Islam of Taflis had heard of it and received a copy. Soon after reading and studying the Kitab i Iqan, the Shaykh wrote a refutation of it. Mirza Abul Fadl read the Shaykh’s book and wrote Fara’id which is a refutation of the Shaykhs polemic.