Sen McGlinn

An interesting insight into the internal migrations of Iranian Bahais, from Semnan province and from Yazd, meeting on the social margins in Gonbad-e Kavus -- and what happened there after 1979
www.brownpundits.com/2025/11/02/t...
#bahai #theology #history #subaltern

Iran Faces Outrage Over Baha'i Arrests And Viral Elite Wedding On Monday, October 20, 2025, the city of Shiraz found itself at the center of two interwoven controversies that have reignited debate across Iran and beyond: the…

"Ellie Omidvari, an Iranian women’s rights activist, drew a poignant comparison: “Their bride is in a palace, our bride is buried under the ground,” referencing the many young women killed during the protests..." #Bahai #Iran #hypocricy-cracy (rule of the hypocrites)

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Mohammad Bagher Mohammadi ... accused Baha'is of operating “intelligence and espionage networks for the Zionist regime.” etc., yada yada #Bahai #Iran #MullaBaloney

iranwire.com/en/bahais-of...

Bahá’í Gardens in Acre reopen to public after 2.5-year closure The Bahá’í Gardens in Acre, a sacred site for millions and once drawing 200,000 visitors a year, will reopen Sunday after a 2.5-year closure due to a dispute with the city over its religious vs. touri...

"the Bahá’í Gardens in Acre will reopen to the public this Sunday, " [They] ...were closed to non-Bahá’ís in April 2023 [when] the city demanded millions ... in property taxes, arguing the site should be classified primarily as a tourist attraction ...." #Bahai

www.ynetnews.com/travel/artic...

Unfortunately, many in the Bahai community are resisting change, although our scriptures offer just as much support for an inclusive community as the Christian tradition does. To read how to be loving, the reader must want to be loving. Head and heart together makes change possible. #Bahai

Church of Norway says sorry to LGBTQ+ people for ‘shame, great harm and pain’ Presiding bishop Olav Fykse Tveit says discrimination and harassment should ‘never have happened’

It's getting better - although other groups resist change.

Quote:
"Like many religions around the world, the Church of Norway ... had long marginalised LGBTQ+ people, refusing to allow them to become pastors or to marry in church. .."

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

#bahai #theology

Appeals Court: Baha’i Citizen Maryam Zabihi Sentenced to Imprisonment - Hrana HRANA – The prison sentence of Maryam Zabihi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Qaemshahr, has been reduced by the Mazandaran Province Court of Appeals to three months and one day. She had initially been s...

The prison sentence of Maryam Zabihi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Qaemshahr, has been reduced by the Mazandaran Province Court of Appeals to three months and one day. She had initially been sentenced to ten months in prison.
#Bahai #Iran #FreedomOfReligion

www.en-hrana.org/appeals-cour...

Baha’i woman Sonia Toudi’i arrested in Babol

Sonia Toudi’i was detained at her home in Babol on Sunday, October 12, 2025. During the arrest, security forces searched her residence and confiscated several personal belongings.
#bahai #iran #FreedomOfReligion

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‘It’s a question of humanity’: how a small Spanish town made headlines over its immigration stance Mayor explains why Villamalea unanimously backed call to regularise undocumented migrants – across party lines

Guardian article on a Spanish town prospering through immigration

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"The steady supply of labour had helped turn the town into an agricultural heavyweight ... a rich tapestry of residents whose roots trace back to 32 countries."
#immigration #communitarianism

Could you tweak that animation so that the door whacks his back as he leaves?

That's a lot of CIA agents (in the picture). How did that get past the Department of Government Efficiency?

Glory be to God, for dappled things,
For skies of couple-colour as a brindled cow ...

All honour to the antifa forces on the beaches -- and don't forget those parachutists giving the fascists hell behind the lines. ...
There's a metaphor here, it's just I'm groping to think of who it would apply to, today.

And to cut the road across the dam.

Carol Ann Duffy writes ‘bombsite’ poem about Trump’s UK state visit Exclusive: Former poet laureate has reader contrasting pomp and ceremony of banquet with ruins left by war

Carol Ann Duffy has written a poem ...
"How it glitters and shines, The Grand Service,
among the rocks and the rubble,
laid out on a breezeblock horseshoe table,
six crystal glasses per setting."

#gaza
Can a Brit explain why the table is of/like a breezeblock?
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Urmia, Shiraz, Kerman, Isfahan, Hamadan, Tehran, .. "In its latest annual report, Human Rights Watch described the systematic suppression and denial of basic rights to Baha’is as a crime against humanity." #bahai

iranwire.com/en/bahais-of...

you tease! Not even sharing your working title.
I, meanwhile, am working on a revolutionary secs book.
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Shoghi Effendi on Church and State, or, Please Don't Let me be Misunderstood.

Qatar: IBAHRI Director issues letter calling for release of Remy Rowhani In a joint letter, Baroness Helena Kennedy LT KC, Director of the International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI), together with other legal experts, has called for the immediate relea...

This letter has details of the breaches of legal rights and procedure in the trial - which was essentially for heresy.
#bahai #qatar #freedomofreligion

www.ibanet.org/Qatar-IBAHRI...

In WW1, the Germans were near Paris when they surrendered. The French were defending only, until they won. Attacking at cost can also be "a losing game." It depends on how strong the economy and logistics and morale are, of the attacker

YouTube video by Violetta Zein Shoghi Effendi #1 : La naissance et l'enfance de Shoghi Effendi

La naissance et l'enfance de Shoghi Effendi:
Par Violetta Zein
#Bahai #theology
www.youtube.com/watch?v=22Mj...

Deux nouveaux articles à lire, concernant l'aspect intellectuel de la vie bahaïe. Gratuit.
FARZAM ARBAB La vie intellectuelle ...
et
PIERRE-YVES MOCQUAIS Un défi lancé à la communauté bahá’íe: Quelques commentaires ..
Vol. 35 No. 3 (2025)

#Bahai #theology
journal.bahaistudies.ca/online/issue...

YouTube video by Corinne True Center for Bahá’í History Ney Grant, “Modernity as Expansion, A Baha’i Reflection on Teleological History”

This video by Nay Grant is a thoughtful approach to the rupture of history that is/was "modernity," the time when we realised that our children's future would not look at all like our present, and we wondered where it was going.
#bahai #theology #modernity

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFha...

Baha’i actress Paria Marandiz released on bail News Center- An investigation session was held at Branch 3 of the Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor's Office, in Tehran's Evin prison, against Baha’i actress Paria Marandiz, on Saturday.During ...

A court in Tehran's Evin prison heard charges of “propaganda against the regime,” “propaganda in support of Israel” and “insulting sacred beliefs” against Baha’i actress Paria Marandiz, on Saturday. She was released on bail

#Bahai #ReligiousFreedom #Iran #Religion
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Confiscation by text message: two dozen Baha’is face property confiscations in Isfahan Over 20 Baha’is in Isfahan are facing the confiscation of their homes, assets, and even vehicles, solely because of their faith. Authorities in Isfahan are invoking and grossly misusing Article 49 of ...

Iranian authorities are misusing Article 49 of the Iranian Constitution— meant to recover property gained by illicit means—to seize the property, freeze bank accounts, and block routine transactions of Bahais. The money goes to the Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei
#bahai
www.bic.org/news/confisc...

Qatar sentences the country's Baha'i leader to 5 years for social media posts The leader of the small Baha’i community in Qatar has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges alleging that posts on Baha’i social media accounts “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islami...

Qatar’s Supreme Judiciary Council sentenced Remy Rowhani, 71, to five years in prison for social media posts that “cast doubt on the foundations of the Islamic religion.”
#bahai #FreedomOfReligion #Freedom #BahaiFaith

apnews.com/article/baha...

Finding a healthy relationship between church and state The question isn’t whether all states should be secular. Instead we need to ask, what is the most beneficial relationship between religion and the modern state?

It's great to see the Bahai Faith presented in the media with clear distancing from the old idea of a Bahai theocracy coming one day. Sheila Flood keeps it short and covers the essentials.

#Bahai #theology
www.timescolonist.com/blogs/spirit...

THE END OF THE WORLD HAS ALREADY HAPPENED PART TWO THE BAHAIS

Karen Effie gives a very basic "this is Bahai," in words entirely her own. She asks, "how do we remain good and faithful Christians, if we are not expecting the end of days? We are just building God’s kingdom, here on earth, for ever."

#Bahai #Theology #Religion

www.kareneffie.com/p/the-end-of...

YouTube video by Sen McGlinn Involvement and non involvement in politics

This video explains Shoghi Effendi's ban on Bahais engaging in politics, and Abdu'l-Baha's statement that we must take part in elections and the affairs of the republic, by starting with the root principle: "Render unto Caesar,"
youtu.be/lT8RjykvqeA

#bahai #theology

Alison at "Cosmic Conversations."

"... it is necessary to prioritise the inner work ... A good society is a society made up of good individuals, ... Religion can only be applied by spiritually healthy people. .."
#bahai #theology

alisonelizabethmarshall.com/projecting-o...

Shoghi Effendi on Church and State (1): Beirut to Oxford What happened between 1920 and 1925, that changed the role of the House of Justice, in Shoghi Effendi’s translations, from “political affairs” to “administrative affairs”? Did Shoghi Effendi’…

I am looking at 1918-1920, when Shoghi Effendi was in Haifa, after his studies in Beirut and before his studies in Oxford.
What was he hearing, translating and writing about church & state in that period? Did his ideas change? #bahai #theology

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