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The Baha’is in Iran and Egypt face ongoing persecution in form of human rights abuses and denial of basic civil rights. Their homes are raided and burned, their businesses closed, their children and youth denied education, their members arrested and killed.
Today we can take action against these grave injustices by raising awareness throughout the world about the plight of the Baha’i communities. Visit http://www.bahairightsday.org/ now!
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Today marks the anniversary of the incarceration of the seven Baha’i leaders in Iran. Iran Press Watch has posted this video:
http://www.vimeo.com/4646378This video is also available on Vimeo and on Youtube. Make it go viral!
A short interview with Geoffrey Cameron, research associate at the London-based Foreign Policy Centre, on the denial of higher education for the Baha’is in Iran. Mr. Cameron is also co-author of the 2008 publication ‘A Revolution without Rights? Women, Kurds and Baha’is Searching for Equality in Iran.’
Produced by brilliant Amy Lim at The Moving Pictures – Geoff blogs at http://jeunestreet.com/
(BNUK) Students at Durham University have passed a motion expressing their concern for young Bahá’ís in Iran who are excluded from higher education.
The motion - passed last night by Durham’s Student Union (DSU) - affirmed that all people should have equal access to higher education on the basis of merit.
Since 1979, the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has systematically sought to deprive members of the Bahá’í Faith of access to higher education. Countless young Bahá’í’s have been refused entry to universities and colleges. Others already studying have been expelled on the basis of their religion.
Under the guise of protecting its “national security”, the Iranian government has orchestrated a crackdown on rights activists, outspoken critics and ethnic and religious minorities. To stand in solidarity with our fellow human beings in Iran, and to call on the Iranian government to uphold its commitment to protecting the rights of its citizens, Mideast Youth is launching a new campaign – “Postcards for Iran“. You can send two types of postcards to Iran:
Combined with pressure from governments and human rights bodies and unabated media attention, grassroots initiatives such as “Postcards for Iran” have proven to be effective. Furthermore, former detainees have testified that prisoners receiving mail received better treatment, as authorities were aware that the world is monitoring their situation.
GET INVOLVED NOW. We’re looking to send hundreds of Postcards. Do your small part and send a postcard free of charge by filling out the form online at: http://www.postcards-for-iran.org/
Vladimir Lenin once said that a lie told often enough becomes truth. If one takes a look at the way Baha’is have been viewed and treated by their adversaries, particularly Muslim clerics and Iranian leaders, they will see an unfortunate truth to Lenin’s assertion. Several baseless claims have been put forth as truth in public forums and media. For instance, the Baha’is were created by the British AND Russians in the 19th-century (while both were actually competing for influence in Persia!). Or that we held positions of power in the Pahlavi regime and were also agents of Israel, international Zionism, and American Imperialism. During the Iran-Iraqi war, some Baha’is were even labeled as Iraqi agents!
Just as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion has been proven a farce, so must the Dolgorukov Memoirs and other fabrications be exposed, once and for all. Adib Masumian, an 18-year old (!!!) youth discredits these in his new 89-page book: “Debunking the Myths: Conspiracy Theories on the Genesis and Mission of the Baha’i Faith”.
He provides an analysis of the most widespread anti-Bahá’í allegations raised by clerics and Iranian polemicists over the past century or so. These include such myths as Prince Dolgorukov of Russia acting as the prime motivator of the Báb, the British General, Arthur Conolly, as the one who persuaded Mulla Husayn to push the Báb into starting his religion, or considering `Abdu’l-Bahá’s knighthood in 1920 as irrefutable evidence of Bahá’í ties to British imperialism.
People! Get this book. This book contains invaluable information. Adib is brilliant!
Black and White for only $9.95/€7.37. Your investment of the year.
http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback_book/debunking_the_myths/6430166
This book is self-published and has been approved by the NSA of the United States.
Responding to the public outcry from western nations against Iran for the plight of seven imprisoned Baha’i leaders, Iran’s Prosecutor-General stated that these individuals have “accepted the charges”. This comic strip speculates on how such a confession might have come about!
It should be noted previous “trials” of detained Baha’is consisted of a series of sessions in which the detainees were were given two options: convert or die.
Credit: Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights
This is a brilliant video about the persecution of the Iranian Baha’is, brought to us by Bobby Aazami:
http://www.vimeo.com/3511566