@senmcglinn.bsky.social
Writer, translator, artist, gardener. Religion writer and researcher, especially the Bahai social teachings (= "political theology"); Iranian studies and Persian literature; art especially sculpture; English literature especially modern poetry; wetlands
Persecution of the #Bahai minority in Iran continued into early March. Bahais are being seized by armed plainclothes agents, denied legal counsel, and held in undisclosed locations without charges. iranwire.com/en/news/1500...
Six armed plainclothes security agents stormed the workplace of Borna Naeimi, a #Bahai resident of Kerman, at around 4:30 PM on March 1. They allegedly beat him severely before handcuffing him and taking him to an undisclosed location.
#Iran #freedomofreligion
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True, but then America too has shown what kind of a guarantor to a nuclear disarmament treaty it is. The Budapest memorandum, broken by US and RF.
The catch with realpolitik is that it doesn't really work, in the long term.
Idealistic words such as "trustworthiness" have weight in the longer run.
The Iranian military is ineffectively blocking traffic, it seems, but that could change. Someone -- some State that needs no insurance cover -- could seize some shadow tankers and deploy them as a shuttle service from the loading harbours on the Gulf to a trans-shipment area in the Indian ocean.
Alan Smith has a good presentation on the impact of a'i on individuals and the #Bahai community
www.youtube.com/watch?v=s41n...
How about a tent on the border between Ukraine and Belarus, dmz-style? Putin can have a long table. Zelensky can have a robo-laser set up to incinerate anything crossing the boundary line, and bullet-proof glass, and his own tea service. Putin enters first and leaves last
This summary on #Bahai prisoners in Iran for February 23-27 includes updates on Hamed Mehrabkhani from Qazvin; Moin Mohammadi from Yazd; Adib Shahbazpour from Kerman; Roya Sabet in Shiraz; Afarin Bashash in Mashhad; Roya Ostovar in Isfahan;
iranwire.com/en/news/1495...
#freedomofreligion
I recommend it -- spell-binding writing
UN reports: #Bahais in #Egypt denied marriage, burial,
The “persistent and systematic discrimination” of Baha’is in Egypt has been exposed in a trio of United Nations reports...
www.bic.org/news/bahais-...
#freedomofreligion
Iran Wire has released its annual report on the state of religious minorities in Iran. There's a section on the #Bahai community in #Iran, and broader information and analysis.
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Adib Shahbazpour. Adib, a #Bahai from Kerman, has now been held for more than a month without any official charges being announced and without access to a lawyer. #freedomofreligion
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Fariba Kamalabadi: #Bahai, early release under an amnesty.
iranpresswatch.org/post/25811/f...
#Abdu'l-Baha Speaks: On the involvement of the faithful in political life, and showing justice in all walks of life
#Bahai #theology
abdulbahatalks.wordpress.com/1911/11/18/i...
Where "century" appears in the #Bahai Writings, the meaning is the Bahai dispensation, NOT “the 20th century.” Abdu’l-Baha says so, in Some Answered Questions:
"Now consider, in this great century which is the cycle of Baha'u'llah, …"
But Bahais have other ideas. Why?
youtu.be/d8XoRgvyio4
On February 18, Hamid Mehrabkhani, a #Bahai from Qazvin, was arrested by security forces while he was at his sister’s home in Tabriz
#Iran #freedomofreligion
www.en-hrana.org/hamed-mehrab...
I made up the cake .... black humour in the face of the absurdity of evil
Birthday party busted in Mashhad: twelve #Bahais arrested including 5 children.
On January 22, a family celebration was raided by at least 12 agents from Iran's intelligence agency, some of them armed. It seems the cake was targetted
#Iran #freedomofreligion
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Shakila Ghasemi, a 26-year-old Iranian #Bahai, was detained over three weeks ago in Kerman. Since then, her family has been living in uncertainty
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I made a video about fake quotes from AI-Bahai:
youtu.be/lVZzVuCOO5o
The latest fake is that Shoghi Effendi wrote about a "process of global integration which will lead in the twentieth century to the establishment of the Lesser Peace" (Citadel of Faith, p. 58). He didn't - check your sources.
....since it could easily lead to a class of individuals in the Baha’i community who assume a degree of authority on the basis of some formal qualification." (obo UHJ, Jan 4 2009, see wp.me/PcgF5-2Lg; more quotes on scholarship here: senmcglinn.wordpress.com/compilations... )
"...the nature of the Centre’s programs would change. ...it would not conduct courses in Baha’i studies in the same sense as those offered in universities ...which ...the House of Justice *discourages* (UHJ, 2019, source in comment)
This report has some background on the life and work of Navid Zarreh-Bin, an Iranian #Bahai artist and photographer from Mashhad. Four weeks after his arrest, he remains under interrogation without legal representation. #freedomofreligion #Iran
iranwire.com/en/features/...
Parva Behdad, a #Bahai from Isfahan, was arrested on February 8 to begin a 3-year sentence for managing a Telegram channel associated with the Bahai faith. She has also been deprived of her social rights and is required to attend Islamic religious classes for five years.
hengaw.net/en/news/2026...
The lawyer Narges Mohammadi has been a defender of freedom of religion in #Iran, a brave friend to the #Bahai community and other oppressed groups. Now she has *another* prison sentence
#freedomofreligion
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Bookmark this, in the hope someone might ask! "Aristocracy, autocracy, theocracy, or democracy — which do the #Baha’i teachings recommend?"
David Langness on the Bahai Teachings site, puts it in a nutshell. Scroll down to the "governance" tag for more articles on Bahai socio-political agenda
www.en-hrana.org/shakila-ghas...
#bahai #iran
Shakila Ghasemi, a Bahai from Kerman was arrested on February 2.
"the wise and learned among men" is a significant theme in Baha'u'llah's writings.
If the learned and wise men of goodwill were to impart guidance unto the people, the whole earth would be regarded as one country.
(Tablets of Baha’u’llah, 172)
It reminds me of themes from classical Persian poetry, such as the "school of love," being used in the Iran-Iraq war to motivate the population to sacrifice.
An excellent article by Ata Mohamed Tabriz on the way religious memes are being used in propaganda by the Iranian regime, in relation to recent unrest and massacres. #iran
iranwire.com/en/features/...