Posted on 10/25/2016 8:56:16 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Baha’i International Community said Tuesday that Iran’s effort to crush the religious minority has continued unabated and intensified on some fronts despite President Hassan Rouhani’s promises to end religious discrimination.
In a 122-page report, the community said Rouhani’s government has stepped-up its “campaign to incite hatred against Baha’is” including by disseminating more than 20,000 pieces of anti-Baha’i propaganda in the Iranian media. […]
Iran has banned the Baha’i religion, which was founded in 1844 by a Persian nobleman considered a prophet by followers. Muslims consider Muhammad the final prophet. …
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I’m not surprised at that. Any take on Islam (such as the Baha’i take) that isn’t orthodox Islam is going to draw the mullahs’ rage.
The Iranian government also no longer allows Vipassana meditation to be openly practiced.
Hate the Buddhists, hate the Jews, hate the Christians, hate even half of their own selves.
Though is Vipassana is what it is advertised to be... I think it would be warning those Buddhists to get the bleep outta there posthaste.
The next word from Obama against Iranian persecutions will the first one.
We seem to be living in an age in which all dissenting voices are suppressed.
It’s certainly true of the United States.
That's the way it has been in Islam since Muhammad.
Muslims should not tolerate any other religious views and they have not for the past 1400 years.
It amazes me that Kafir religious leaders, politicians and military leaders, don't seem to grasp that Islamic fundamental, and persist in the folly of trying to get along with Muslims.
By Muslims I mean fundamental Muslims who follow what Allah and Muhammad want done, as opposed to the many Muslim heretics, and Infidel collaborators that exist around the world.- Tom
Ping!
I’ve only knowm one Baha’i, a co-worker at GE in the 1980s. She was the single most anti-American, anti-capitalism, anti-Reagan human being I have ever met.
I realize that’s an n of 1, so statistically invalid, but it continues to color my view of Baha’is.
It’s happening right here in the US, too.
The Left is seeking to silence Christians, and even dissenting political voices are shouted down by Lefties.
Does that mean that persecution by Twelvers with the force of the Revolutionary Guard behind them is valid, though? I wonder if this Baha’i you knew has a different attitude now, what with Obama aiding the incumbent Mullahs so openly.
Those kind of people, I always ask “So if you hate this country so much, what are you doing here and why don’t you leave?”
The Bahai faith also outlaws practicing homosexuality among it's believers, use of alcohol, drugs and racial prejudice.
My fear is the faith will be deprived of college recognition when it's opposition to homosexual behavior is known.
“A spiritual solution to economic problems” is not socialism. And see The Persian Hidden Words #80, #81, and #82. Bahá’u’lláh calls upon us to rely upon God - not upon the state. The biggest problem I see with America today is that the state is replacing God in people’s lives.
The first Bahai prophet (The Bab) was a middle class merchant and never renounced his profession in his writings.
The Baha’is teach that one God sent a series of successive, but equally important, prophets at successive points in history, to teach varying cultures according to their ability to understand.
Islam says there is only Allah, and Mohammad is his only prophet. Believers in anything else must be killed.
When anyone tries to float the “We all worship the same God” stuff, here’s where you tell them, yeah, that’s what the Baha’is think. That’s why the Muslims are making alarming numbers of them dead, because that idea right there —what we call “tolerance” and “diversity” in the West— is considered heresy, and the penalty for heresy under Islam is death.
And you must emphasize, we aren’t just talking about “Muslim extremists” like ISIS. We’re talking about the imams, the mullahs, the everyday Muslims who rule with Sharia law in the ISLAMIC THEOCRACIES of the Middle East.
Yeah. At most only one theology can be right, but many of them are not so antisocial as to call for murdering the people who believe the wrong theologies.
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