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You can be imprisoned - or worse - in Sudan for naming your teddy bear “Muhammad”. But what happens when you name your racehorse “Baha’u'llah” (Baha’ullah is the Prophet or Manifestation of God who founded the Baha’i Faith)?

Ah, that could never happen, you say. Racehorses? Baha’u'llah?

Well, apparently, it did happen - and it happened as long ago as 1951. Shoghi Effendi, Guardian of the Baha’i Faith, wrote to the Baha’is of Australia and New Zealand:

The Guardian was very pleased to see the Racing Conference courteously changed the name of that horse which had been called Baha’u’llah.

You don’t wanna mix it with those Baha’is. They’ll be round with the Persian rice and fessenjoon.

Thanks to Steve Marshall for the reference to the racehorse incident.

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