To our Dear Friends

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Dear Friends,

My sister Karin is a Baha'i and has asked my help on this.

It is time the world grew up and moved into an age of Religious

tolerance.  We can no longer afford Man's inhumanity to Man.

I don't know what you personally can do to help on this, but even if

you just forward this on to your friends and family, it would be

appreciated.  At this particular moment we live in a time of wild and

dramatic change.  Let's make it a change for the better.  Shall we???

Yours in Knowledge, Health and Freedom,

Doc

DocShillington

 

Karin wrote:

 

Maize

Feb.

12th/09

 

Ian

and I would ask of you to say a wee prayer on behalf of nearly

300,000

Baha'is in Iran.- some of whom are being put on trial in

Teheran

next week. Baha'is are NOT involved in any way, in partisan

politics...

in any country, ever.  The fact that our World Centre is in

Haifa

Israel... is seen as the big threat... and yet it is a World Centre

of

Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Baha'i.

  

In His Love,

Karin

and Ian Ferguson

 

 

 

 

"How long will discord agitate the face of society.?

The winds of despair are, alas, blowing from every direction,and the

strife that divdeth and afflicteth the human race is daily increasing."

Baha'u'llah...

 

 

"The recrudescence of religious intolerance, of

racial animosity and of patriotic arrogance;

the increasing evidence of selfishness, of suspicion,

of fear and of fraud; the spread of terrorism, of lawlessness, of

drunkenness and of crime; the unquenchable thirst for, and the feverish

pursuit after, earthly vanities, riches and pleasures; the weakening of

family solidarity; the laxity in parental control; the lapse into

luxurious indulgence; the irresponsible attitude towards marriage and

the consequent rising tide of divorce; the  degeneracy of art and

music, the infection of literature, and the corruption of the press;

the extension of the influence and of activities of those " prophets of

decadence" who advocate companionate marriage, who preach the

philosophy of nudism, who call modesty an intellectual fiction, who

refuse to regard the procreation of children as the sacred and primary

purpose of marriage, who denounce religion as an opiate of the people,

who  would, if given free rein, lead back the human race to

barbarism,chaos, and ultimate extinction - these appear as the

outstanding characteristics of a decadent society, a society that must

either be reborn or perish."

 

Baha'i Writings

www.bahai.org

 

 

 

Iran Announces Trial

of Baha’i Leadership

 

The Iranian

Student News Agency (ISNA) announced today that charges had been

laid against the seven imprisoned members of the national-level

committee that coordinates the activities for the Iranian Baha’i

community. The report quoted deputy Tehran prosecutor

Hassan Haddad as having said “the case will be sent to the

revolutionary court next week” and that these Baha’is are accused of

“espionage for Israel, insulting religious sanctities and propaganda

against the Islamic republic.”   Agence France Presse (AFP) has posted

the following piece, Iran to try Bahais for spying for

Israel.

 

 

 

The Baha’is deny categorically

these charges. No evidence against them has been brought to light. The

seven members of a national Baha’i coordinating committee were arrested in March and May of 2008 and have been held in Tehran’s Evin Prison.

At no time during their incarceration have they been given access to

their legal counsel, Mrs. Shirin Ebadi. Mrs. Ebadi has been harassed,

intimidated, and threatened since taking on their case and has not been

given access to their case files. The prosecution of the leaders is

just one step in a 30-year-long systematic campaign orchestrated by the

government to eliminate the Baha’i community as a viable entity in

Iran, the birthplace of the Bahá’í Faith. Documentary evidence exists

on this campaign, http://iran.bahai.us/documents.

 

At this time, some thirty other Baha’is are

imprisoned in Iran solely on account of their

religion. Close to 80 more Baha’is, have been required to post deeds of

property and business licenses as collateral for bail. They have

likewise been falsely charged and are awaiting trial.

 

 

 

 

For more information, please visit:

 

http://iran.bahai.us/2009/02/11/iran-announces-trial-of-baha%e2%80%99i-leadership/

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Prayin', Doc!

 

--

~~~~Jaynee~~~~

God is in Control!