RE: PressTV - Iran arrests Baha'is in Bam

In an article published Saturday March 12, 2011 showing a picture of Bam Prosecutor-General Mohammad-Reza Sanjari (top right) looking depressed at the rising prestige of the peaceful Baha'i faith, PressTV announced, "Iran's Intelligence Ministry has arrested a number of the followers of the banned Baha'i cult on charges of promoting their perverse beliefs in kindergartens."

This naturally raised the following questions;

1. In a nation with a literacy rate of just 83%, what does teaching children how to read have to do with perversity?

2. If they where involved in perversity then why did they have Iranian Muslims assisting them?

3. What is perverse about Baha'i belief anyway? Is it perverse that Baha'u'llah exhorts his followers to "...consort, with amity and concord and without discrimination, with the adherents of all religions; warns them to guard against fanaticism, sedition, pride, dispute and contention; inculcates upon them immaculate cleanliness, strict truthfulness, spotless chastity, trustworthiness, hospitality, fidelity, courtesy, forbearance, justice and fairness; counsels them to be "even as the fingers of one hand and the limbs of one body" 1

Unfortunately, the article (which can be read here) does not explain what it is about Baha'i belief that is so allegedly "perverse".

Then again the press could hardly be blamed for printing what they were told without independant investigation in a country where free thought and speech are so rigidly suppressed.

(1 Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 14)

Spread the word, send a quick message of hope to an innocent prisoner

It has been reported by "Good" here that after 27 years in prison, Thomas Haynesworth is to have had his innocence upheld after prosecutors said DNA evidence has been found which points to a convicted rapist named Leon Davis.

My heart is broken for the time Thomas lost in prison, and I wish him all the best as he attempts to pick up the pieces and transition in to free life.

His time in prison is reminiscent of another innocent prisoner who served time in prison for the sins of others. That earlier prisoner Baha'u'llah writing to one of His early disciples states;

"Forget not My Bounties while I am absent. Remember My days during thy days, and My distress and banishment in this remote prison. And be thou so steadfast in My love that thy heart shall not waver, even if the swords of the enemies rain blows upon thee and all the heavens and the earth arise against thee...

...And if thou art overtaken by affliction in My path, or degradation for My sake, be not thou troubled thereby.
Rely upon God, thy God and the Lord of thy fathers."~ Baha'u'llah.

Kind regards.

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