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United Nations report on persecution of Baha’is

arthra

Baha'i
In his report to the UN General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur outlines a series of human rights violations against the Baha’i community of Iran and other ethnic and religious minorities, and sets out a number of recommendations to the Iranian authorities.

“The absence of constitutional and legal recognition for non-recognized minorities entails denials of fundamental human rights for their followers. Left outside the national legal framework, unrecognized minority religious groups such as Baha’is, Christian converts, [and] Sufis...are the targets of discriminatory legislation and practices,” the report reads.

The report adds that the “constant threat of raids, arrests and detention or imprisonment...remain the main features of the country’s persecution of Baha’is”, and calls on the Iranian authorities to amend all articles in the Islamic Penal Code that discriminate on the basis of religion or belief.

“Given that the Baha’i Faith is regarded as a ‘misguided sect’ and Baha’i worship and religious practices are deemed heresy, they frequently face charges such as ‘breaching national security’, ‘propaganda against the holy regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran’ or ‘propaganda activities against the regime in the interests of the Baha’i sect,’” the report adds.

The report further outlines:

—Since 1979, more than 200 Baha’is have been executed, solely on the basis of their religious beliefs, with nearly half of them representing the elected members of the local and national Baha’i governing councils. Regarded by the Iranian authorities and by the Iranian criminal justice system as “unprotected infidels”, Baha’is have been murdered with impunity and violations of their human rights have not been investigated.

—A total of 95 Baha’is were reportedly arrested in 2018, compared with at least 84 in 2017 and 81 in 2016. This suggests that, while the number of such arbitrary arrests each year may fluctuate, the persecution is not subsiding.

—There have been more than 800 incidents of violations of economic rights of the Baha’is since 2013, including arbitrary shop closures, unfair dismissals from employment and the actual or threatened revocation of business licences.

—Baha’i cemeteries have been desecrated and Baha’is have not been allowed to bury their dead in accordance with their religious laws. Local cemeteries in Tehran and other major cities had been turned into parks and cultural buildings.


Baha’is of Iran suffer most egregious forms of persecution - UN report
 
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PruePhillip

Well-Known Member
They need to organize like the Palestinians do - make an industry out
of their grievances.
I read an Iranian woman got 20 years jail for removing her hijab.
It's nations like this that get a seat in the UN, and sign on to the
declaration of human rights.
 

arthra

Baha'i
They need to organize like the Palestinians do - make an industry out
of their grievances.
I read an Iranian woman got 20 years jail for removing her hijab.
It's nations like this that get a seat in the UN, and sign on to the
declaration of human rights.

Baha'is have been persecuted before over the past century and a half in the Middle East and do not engage in partisan politics.
 

arthra

Baha'i
Non-sense. Islam is political, and in Iran, reigns. To be in opposition to Islam is to be political. If you're not willing to engage in politics against Islam, which may lead to war, then don't present a faith that is opposed to Islam.
Good-Ole-Rebel

Baha'i Faith is not political and is not in "opposition to Islam or Christianity." Baha'is are non-violent and if drafted in the military request non-combatant roles.

No opportunity, in view of the necessity of ensuring the harmonious development of the Faith, should be ignored, which its potential enemies, whether ecclesiastical or otherwise, may offer, to set forth, in a restrained and unprovocative language, its aims and tenets, to defend its interests, to proclaim its universality, to assert the supernatural, the supranational and non-political character of its institutions, and its acceptance of the Divine origin of the Faiths which have preceded it....

(From a letter dated 5 June 1947 to the Bahá'ís of the West, published in "Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957" (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980), p. 23)
(Compilations, The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 148)
 

Good-Ole-Rebel

Well-Known Member
Baha'i Faith is not political and is not in "opposition to Islam or Christianity." Baha'is are non-violent and if drafted in the military request non-combatant roles.

No opportunity, in view of the necessity of ensuring the harmonious development of the Faith, should be ignored, which its potential enemies, whether ecclesiastical or otherwise, may offer, to set forth, in a restrained and unprovocative language, its aims and tenets, to defend its interests, to proclaim its universality, to assert the supernatural, the supranational and non-political character of its institutions, and its acceptance of the Divine origin of the Faiths which have preceded it....

(From a letter dated 5 June 1947 to the Bahá'ís of the West, published in "Citadel of Faith: Messages to America 1947-1957" (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1980), p. 23)
(Compilations, The Compilation of Compilations vol II, p. 148)

Sorry. When I responded I saw only your post under the 'new thread' titles. I didn't know it was under Baha i faith only. My apologies. I will be more observant here on.

Good-Ole-Rebel
 
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