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Mar
2008
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Baha'i students are spied on and monitored by thier teachers

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As 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.