Comments on: Writing the Baha’is back into Iran’s history http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/02/22/writing-the-bahais-back-into-irans-history/ Personal diary of John Barnabas (aka Barney) Leith Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:25:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Barney http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/02/22/writing-the-bahais-back-into-irans-history/comment-page-1/#comment-14204 Barney Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:23:15 +0000 http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/02/22/writing-the-bahais-back-into-irans-history/#comment-14204 Thanks for your spot-on comment, Jim. It is essential that academics and other people of capacity begin to recognize the reality of the contribution Baha'is - individually and as a community - have made to the development of Iran and, indeed, to many other parts of the world. When people begin to recognize the extraordinary steadfastness of the Iranian Baha'is under the most difficult of circumstances they will also come to recognize the importance of defending the Baha'is, whether or not they accept the truth of the Baha'i Faith as a religion. Thanks for your spot-on comment, Jim. It is essential that academics and other people of capacity begin to recognize the reality of the contribution Baha’is – individually and as a community – have made to the development of Iran and, indeed, to many other parts of the world. When people begin to recognize the extraordinary steadfastness of the Iranian Baha’is under the most difficult of circumstances they will also come to recognize the importance of defending the Baha’is, whether or not they accept the truth of the Baha’i Faith as a religion.

]]> By: Jim Ferguson http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/02/22/writing-the-bahais-back-into-irans-history/comment-page-1/#comment-14202 Jim Ferguson Fri, 22 Feb 2008 23:46:52 +0000 http://www.leithjb.net/blog/2008/02/22/writing-the-bahais-back-into-irans-history/#comment-14202 This is another major step forward in helping the world at large and more importantly the academic world see the grave situation the Baha'i community if Iran finds itself in. Governments continue to pass resolutions against the injustices being heaped upon the Baha'is, human rights agencies continue to cry foul at the ongoing persecution of the peaceful Baha'i community, non-Baha'i Iranians are speaking out publicly in blogs and in internet journals about the situation of the Baha'is in their homeland, the UN has been vocal as well. The publication of scholarly works such as this will serve to draw the attention of scholars and academics and other people of capacity to the plight of the Baha'is and hopefully open a dialogue at the highest levels of academia that will help even further to focus the attention of the world on the situation of the Baha'is in Iran. Peace, Jim Ferguson This is another major step forward in helping the world at large and more importantly the academic world see the grave situation the Baha’i community if Iran finds itself in.

Governments continue to pass resolutions against the injustices being heaped upon the Baha’is, human rights agencies continue to cry foul at the ongoing persecution of the peaceful Baha’i community, non-Baha’i Iranians are speaking out publicly in blogs and in internet journals about the situation of the Baha’is in their homeland, the UN has been vocal as well.

The publication of scholarly works such as this will serve to draw the attention of scholars and academics and other people of capacity to the plight of the Baha’is and hopefully open a dialogue at the highest levels of academia that will help even further to focus the attention of the world on the situation of the Baha’is in Iran.
Peace,
Jim Ferguson

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