Comments on: Ban on Iran paper over Baha’i photo lifted http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5314 Documenting the Persecution of the Baha'i Community in Iran Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:00:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Robert http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5314/comment-page-1#comment-3955 Robert Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:07:21 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=5314#comment-3955 The editors of IPW censor alter readers's comments without informing the commentator beforehand or the readers by any normal editorial means to indicate comments have been altered. IPW refuses to allow commentators to share letters from the Baha'i International Community office regarding the Baha'i Faith's official relationship with the "Baha’i Committee of Human Rights Activists in Iran" used as a source on IPW. No reason was given for refusing statements from the BIC. Readers should be aware of this deceptive practice by the IPW editors which calls into questions the authenticity and accuracy of reports it shares . The editors of IPW censor alter readers’s comments without informing the commentator beforehand or the readers by any normal editorial means to indicate comments have been altered.

IPW refuses to allow commentators to share letters from the Baha’i International Community office regarding the Baha’i Faith’s official relationship with the “Baha’i Committee of Human Rights Activists in Iran” used as a source on IPW.

No reason was given for refusing statements from the BIC.

Readers should be aware of this deceptive practice by the IPW editors which calls into questions the authenticity and accuracy of reports it shares .

]]> By: sb http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5314/comment-page-1#comment-3951 sb Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:09:30 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=5314#comment-3951 This is another fine example of the irrepressible Covenant of Baha'u'llah rising above mendacity and machination! My heartfelt thanks to the Iranian censors for calling attention to the Baha'i Faith yet again by meting out censorship that is clearly useless. This is another fine example of the irrepressible Covenant of Baha’u'llah rising above mendacity and machination! My heartfelt thanks to the Iranian censors for calling attention to the Baha’i Faith yet again by meting out censorship that is clearly useless.

]]> By: RonPrice http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5314/comment-page-1#comment-3946 RonPrice Sun, 29 Nov 2009 11:11:17 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=5314#comment-3946 Ruling elites can make no more serious error than to imagine that the power they have managed to arrogate to themselves and, in the process, stifle the media in various ways, provides an enduring bulwark against the relentless tides of historical change. Today in Iran, as everywhere else throughout the world, these tides are rolling in with insistent urgency and tumultuous force. They are not merely at the door of the house, but they rise up irresistibly through its floorboards. They cannot be diverted inspite of all the efforts of religious and political orthodoxy. This is the real reason why Bahá'u'lláh was so desperately opposed by clergy and rulers who recognized in Him--correctly if only dimly--the Voice of a coming society of justice and enlightenment, in which they themselves would have no place. We should have no doubt that it is this same fear that animates the successive waves of persecution in whatever form that have been endured for more than a century and a half. Ruling elites can make no more serious error than to imagine that the power they have managed to arrogate to themselves and, in the process, stifle the media in various ways, provides an enduring bulwark against the relentless tides of historical change. Today in Iran, as everywhere else throughout the world, these tides are rolling in with insistent urgency and tumultuous force. They are not merely at the door of the house, but they rise up irresistibly through its floorboards. They cannot be diverted inspite of all the efforts of religious and political orthodoxy.

This is the real reason why Bahá’u'lláh was so desperately opposed by clergy and rulers who recognized in Him–correctly if only dimly–the Voice of a coming society of justice and enlightenment, in which they themselves would have no place. We should have no doubt that it is this same fear that animates the successive waves of persecution in whatever form that have been endured for more than a century and a half.

]]> By: Robert http://www.iranpresswatch.org/post/5314/comment-page-1#comment-3932 Robert Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:15:00 +0000 http://www.iranpresswatch.org/?p=5314#comment-3932 The regime in Iran can ban all they want, but in the end all attempts to muffle the Baha'i leadership and their proclamation of the Baha'i Faith to mankind will end in utter loss for those sad souls. "Should they cast Him into a fire kindled on the continent, He will assuredly rear His head in the midmost heart of the ocean and proclaim: "He is the Lord ..." -- Baha'u'llah The regime in Iran can ban all they want, but in the end all attempts to muffle the Baha’i leadership and their proclamation of the Baha’i Faith to mankind will end in utter loss for those sad souls.

“Should they cast Him into a fire kindled on the continent, He will assuredly rear His head in the midmost heart of the ocean and proclaim: “He is the Lord …”

— Baha’u'llah

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