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July 11th is Baha’i Rights Day

July 10th, 2009Daniela (Guest/USA)

For many months, we have been thinking about creating a day in which everyone can become aware of Baha’i human rights abuses. We approached our friends at Iran Press Watch with the idea and we agreed upon July 11 in order to mark Baha’i Rights Day, a day dedicated to support the human rights for members of the Baha’i faith.

We are working on developing content and more ideas to make this day as influential and effective as possible, however this is impossible without your help and participation.

How you can help:

  • Please inform your friends, family and colleagues that on July 11 they should tweet, blog, Facebook or create any material in support of Baha’i human rights everywhere, specifically in Iran where Baha’is have been severely persecuted against for the past 30 years.
  • Please use your influence to try and get as many journalists as possible to formally recognize this day and write about Baha’is in Iran or the remaining struggles of Baha’is in Egypt and other countries.
  • Please contact other bloggers and request that they dedicate at least that single day (July 11) to write about Baha’is and their rights.
  • Please tweet about it consistently on July 11 and use the #BahaiRights hashtag in order for people to locate. The idea is to make #BahaiRights a top trend on July 11.
  • If you are an artist, a website designer, a musician, or anyone with creative skills please create material in honor of this day and in the name of all the Baha’i victims around the world who suffered persecution and violent discrimination for decades.
  • Finally, you do not have to be a Baha’i to participate! Please make others aware of that. It does mean something that this day was created primarily by non-Baha’is who would like other non-Baha’is (especially Muslims) to recognize and act upon the abuse taking place in our name.

    • We rely on people like you to help make this day possible, despite the short notice. Please start spreading the word as much as possible through all your networks and mailing lists and let’s achieve this worldwide Baha’i Rights Day where we all unite regardless of our race or religion to support Baha’is everywhere!

    Thank you.

    This is a cross-post from The Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights (posting on behalf of Esra’a who is in flight)

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    5 Responses to “July 11th is Baha’i Rights Day”

    1. #1 Almost 350 Links to Iran Election News/Photos/Videos | #IranElection * - July 10th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

      [...] July 11th is Baha’i Rights Day in Iran [...]

    2. #2 Heshmat Moghaddam - July 10th, 2009 at 11:32 pm

      Please set the Bahais free. What good those it do by harming friends of God. Muhammad said very clearly thier are two things we can not take from humans one is Air and the other one is Water. And with out this two we die so please lison you can not take any ones life it is againest the creation of God.

    3. #3 Sami, the beduin. - July 11th, 2009 at 12:39 pm

      I believe not only any sect, but also any human has the right to live the way he believes…. So July 11th is the Bahai Day…. but what does it mean to be Bahai?… the post says nothing!!!

    4. #4 Daniela (Guest/USA) - July 12th, 2009 at 12:42 am

      Hey Sami, you can check info about Baha’i Faith here: http://www.bahai.org/
      (Thanks for the comment btw, and for your response to my comment on your post :)
      I will be coming back to read your other articles soon!

    5. #5 Sami, the beduin. - July 12th, 2009 at 7:55 am

      Oh Daniela!! just now noticed it is your blog… I was thinking of the Bahais and wonder, not of the blogger… anyway, sure I will read about it, thanks!!

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