Baha’i students are spied on and monitored by thier teachers
March 13th, 2008As i’m sure some of you know there is a serious resurgence of persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. The Islamic Government is opposed to this peace loving segment and refuses to acknowledge their most basic of human rights. Baha’is who have served in all levels of government and military, even during war time, those who were the most prominent professors of law, philosophy, and medicine and many other professionals have been categorically removed, killed, dismissed and denied and vilified by a fanatical and demonic regime bent on genocide.
Most recently Baha’i students of grade school and middle school age (4-12) are being persecuted at school. They are being “…vilified by their teachers and school administrators, and are forced to listen to vile and outrageous tales about the teachings of their Faith and the moral behavior of their co-religionists. Students are often expelled when they identify themselves as Bahá’ís, when they try to defend the Faith against utterly unfounded accusations, or when they respectfully attempt to correct gross misrepresentations of the Faith’s history in the textbooks they must study.”
Just for clarification Baha’is believe the following…
• The oneness of God, mankind and religion.
• The independent investigation of truth.
• The equality of women and men.
• Harmony of science and religion.
• Elimination of extremes of wealth and poverty.
• Universal peace.
• A world common-wealth of nations.
• A universal auxiliary language.
• Spiritual solutions to economic problems.
• Universal education.
According to the Iranian government we also believe in inter-course with our siblings, zionism, free-masonry, human sacrifices, etc etc…
Here is another story of just one example of what is happening.
In the city of Andisheh, a young woman, sixteen years of age, was accosted several times by individuals, one of whom had picked her up in the guise of a taxi driver and, refusing to let her off at her school, said to her, “[You are a] Bahá’í child, and you teach. I will kill you.” This same person also made threatening calls to her home, in one instance stating, “You will never be able to find me. We will start with you and gradually reach the rest. We are a group who wants to cleanse the schools.” The family reported the incidents to the police, who told them to return the following day and ultimately were of no help to them. Some days later, while at her sister’s shop, another man tried to assault the young Bahá’í woman with a knife, but she pushed him away and he ran out. Several days afterthis, a smartly dressed woman approached her in the schoolyard and, greeting her with “Alláh-u-Abhá”, asked where the Bahá’ís would be meeting that night. Since the Bahá’í community would be commemorating a Bahá’í Holy Day that evening, the young woman directed her to obtain the details from whoever had invited her to the community’s activities. The woman responded by suggesting that they leave immediately to see the young woman’s mother, at which point the Bahá’í student returned to her classroom. Several days later, at the end of the school day the young woman sensed someone was following her as she left the school. She fainted, and when she regained consciousness, she was in a car with the same man who had originally driven her to school in the guise of a taxi driver. Two other men were in the car, one of whom was the one who had tried to attack her in her sister’s shop. The woman who had spoken to her in the schoolyard was also in the car with them. When one of the men reached out to grasp her, she tried to defend herself and was slapped in the face by the woman. They also broke her eyeglasses and pulled her hair. They then pushed her out of the car and drove away.
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Thank you Omid for continuing to make this a topic of discussion. The world has the power to stop it, if only we could ring the bell loud enough.
Omid, from what I have read about Baha’i, it is one of the most gentle and rational belief systems in the world. I really like what I have read of it. I wouldn’t worry too much about the persecution going on in Iran right now. My prediction is that the regime change, for the betterment of all in Iran, is only a couple more years away. It won’t be long. Already, the pressure of the Americans on two borders and an American navy on the doorstep is making the leaders there act even more stupid. The reasoning people will win there. It is comming.
There is a lot of debate about regime change and without getting too deeply into it, unfortunately I see that it will be a long and bloody struggle given the degree of self-prescribed guidance that these mullahs suffer from. To touch briefly on this let me give a scenerio that will act as an umbrella to what will undoubtedly be more of the same types of accusations and counter accusations.
Lets say that indeed the popular majority who are open, reform minded and friendly rise up against the present oligarchy of mullahs and there antiquated system. I imagine possible street protests and unfortunately riots against police forces, international outreach by internal parties wanting help to get rid of the government, possible commentary by the de facto prince Reza Pahlavi and as a response an eventual crack down and bloody repression by the authorities while all the while blowing hot air about how their is subversive and conspiratorial elements at work that are stirring up the populous and, on the contrary, instead of recognizing a serious political problem, there will be a deep divide, drawing a line that is somewhat present today, into a darker and more pronounced distinction between fundamentalists and reformists.
One thing is for sure, they believe they have been chosen by God to usher in the 12th Imam. Foolishly they also think they can bring this about sooner or at least hurry along this fantasy. All else to them seems secondary. Human rights, democracy and freedom are simply minor contemporary commentary.
Man if I was there… I would teach those animals a very good lesson.
Omid I walk around with a Star of David on my chest. I am waiting for some one who might challenge me for that. In fact I am wearing it to show my support of the nation of Israel who are one of the minorities discriminated, inside Iran and out of it, for all the reasons which has nothing to do with this chosen nation of God. I see the extremists belittled and amazed, it is a shield that shielded King David in the wars. It should be sacred for muslims if they believe in their holy book and when their holy book sends Salaam to David. The true followers of the religion of peace( Islam meaning being in peace with… G-d) they have to be in peace with the children of G-d, with his creatures, I do not want to undermine any religion or the followers of any religons, but I hate the extremists, the ignorant and the pretentious who claim to stick to the principles of a religon and all their are doing is feeding their sick ego, their sick intentions.
Omid, there are Lions and Lionesses in Iran who would not allow your nation being harressed like that. I am not voting for any of these misrepresentatives, no one here is going to represent Me, US, Iranains, Our Youth, Our people who have free spirits. Abha !
Wow. What a comment. =-)
Baha’i students are spied on and monitored by thier teachers in Iran…
As i’m sure some of you know there is a serious resurgence of persecution of the Baha’is in Iran….
I dont knw much abt the Baha’i faith except tht wht i’ve read online here…
it seems so peaceful.. and there doesnt seem anything so different tht they would deserve to b discriminated against like tht, either in Iran or in Egypt :@
We can do something about these persecutions of innocent people in Iran. We can each write letters to our representatives in Congress or our Parliament, we can have our Schools and Universities take some action and write official letters or appeal. We can talk about this in our churches, synagogues and mosques. We can write letters to the news media. We can read more about the situation through websites like
http://denial.bahai.org
http://news.bahai.org
What we can not do is remain silent or feel there is nothing we can do to help. Please consider some of the organizations we can write to as listed below.
Thank you all
Mark
UN Secretary-General
Hon. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General
United Nations
United Nations Headquarters
First Avenue at 46th Street
New York, NY 10017
U.S.A
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
High Commissioner for Human Rights – Ms. Louise Arbour
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Palais des Nations
8-14 ave de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax : 41 22 917 0213
United Nations Human Rights Council
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
United Nations Office at Geneva
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Fax: + 41 22 917 9011
E-mail: ngochr@ohchr.org
UNESCO
Director-General, Koïchiro Matsuura
UNESCO
7, place de Fontenoy
75352 PARIS 07 SP, France
bpiweb@unesco.org
UNICEF
Executive Director Ann M. Veneman
UNICEF House
3 United Nations Plaza
New York, New York 10017
U.S.A.
Amnesty International
Secretary General Irene Khan
Amnesty International
1 Easton Street
London, WC1X 0DW
U.K.
Rights & Democracy
Jean-Louis Roy
Rights & Democracy
1001 de Maisonneuve Blvd. East
Suite 1100
Montreal, Quebec H2L 4P9
Iran’s Representative to the United Nations
New York Permanent Mission:
Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Mohammad Khazaee
622 Third Avenue, 34th floor
New York, NY 10017
U.S.A.
Ph. (212) 687 2020
Fax. (212) 867 7086
E-mail: iran@un.int;
Geneva Permanent Mission:
Ambassador: H.E. Mr. Mohammad Reza Alborzi
28 Chemin du Petit-Saconnex
1209 Geneva, Switzerland
Ph. +41 22 332 21 00
Fax. +41 22 733 02 03
Email: mission.iran@ties.itu.int;
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
245 Metcalfe St.
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 2K2
Fax: 613-232-5712