Egypt bans film that documents the Baha'i human rights crisis within the country
One of the most recent posts featured on our ME Faith site reads the following (which the author translated from an Arabic news source) -
[State] Security authorities banned the release of a new documentary film regarding the Baha’is in Egypt. It prevented attempts of spreading its viewing and advertising it. The forbidden film is entitled “Identity Crisis Between My Religion or My Country: The Baha’i Quagmire in Egypt.”
The Film’s promotional clips, which were posted on the “Baha’i Faith in Egypt” site, begin with a thickly bearded man, referred to in the film as one of the opposing Islamist lawyers, who was present at the 16 December 2006 session of the [Supreme] Administrative Court that issued a ruling against the Baha’is. This was when [he] was talking about the special punishment reserved for those that tarnish the land, requesting its application on the Baha’is, represented in death, Crucifixion, amputating their hands and legs, or exiling [them from earth].
See the brief sample video of the film below -
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x85cjShP6Sg[/youtube]
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I’m sorry, but I don’t really understand what are, or who are Baha’i people? I heard he word before but I never understood what their religion is all about, Anyway, that’s not the issue here, it’s that they’re still humans and as I heard from this short video is that they’re not given their full rights, and they’re threatened with death, something must be done, that all explains why the video was banned, the people are oppressed, they might as well oppress their opinions, freedom and media!!
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