Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith
From the monthly archives:
A speech at a New Jersey inter-faith brunch by a member of the US National Spiritual Assembly about threats to freedom of religion sparked indignation amongst some of the Muslims present.
This report on NorthJersey.com gives the low-down:
Several Muslims said after the speech that they were offended by what they saw as Roberts’ singling out of [...]
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The last time I looked (a few moments ago) there were 118 comments on Ruth Gledhill’s excellent article on the worsening situation of the Baha’is in Iran and 6 trackbacks. This is way more than for other recent articles that Ruth has posted. It’s a bit scary and wonderful that the global Baha’i community, once [...]
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Emran Qureshi has written a fascinating op-ed piece on the Harvard Law School website, under the title The Islam the Riots Drowned Out.
Qureshi’s central point is that is a strong humanistic tradition in Islam that is being destroyed by the extremists in the name of what they imagine Islam to be.
Sadly, the recent polarization obscures [...]
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Ruth Gledhill’s blog has an excellent article about a deeply worrying development in the long-standing persecution of the Baha’is in Iran. It is well worth reading – and following her links – if you want to find out about this serious, persistent, but not so well known, oppression of a community purely on the grounds [...]
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The day the clocks went forward to British Summer Time and I lost an hour’s sleep, the BBC whisked me off at 6.45am (5.45am by my body clock) in a silver car to Broadcasting House to do an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme. You can pick up a link to listen to the [...]
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The following was posted on the UK National Assembly’s NEWS e-list earlier today:
Around 90 people attended the Naw-Ruz reception organized by the Office of External Affairs on the terrace of the House of Commons last night. Amongst them were several MPs, a Peer, and officials from a number of government departments, including the Foreign and [...]
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Yesterday a group of ten sixth formers from Jersey College for Girls came to the UK National Baha’i Centre in London for a tour and to discuss certain aspects of the Faith.
I had spoken to the same group two or three years ago when I was in Jersey for the celebration of the 50th [...]
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Now I can wish every one a very happy Naw-Ruz and a wonderful year ahead. Erica and I have just returned from a wonderful Naw-Ruz celebration for Welwyn and Welwyn Garden City – about 50 Baha’is and friends, children, youth, adults. Lots of lovely Persian food, lots of laughter and a wonderfully loving spirit.
It’s that [...]
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Marco has pointed out that my blog is one year old today. Happy birthday, blog!
To be honest, I’m amazed. I have a short attention span, so it’s quite an achievement for me to keep this going – if somewhat sporadically at times – for so long. Let’s hope I can keep it going. Actually, I [...]
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I’ve just had one of my nightmare things happen to me. I arrived at work at the National Baha’i Centre in London’s leafy Knightsbridge (actually, truth to tell, it’s not at all leafy at the moment, what with the late Spring and the unspringlike weather) at about 9.30am. I came in through the basement door [...]
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