BAHAIS

Thank you

As a child who grew up in Iran & became a woman, more than the persecution itself, what really hurt was knowing that at the end of the day even my closest friends who would sleep over & eat meals in my home still had suspicion about my faith.

Dear Mr. Farjami, your wonderful article is very comforting. Your humanity & courage is admirable, revealing that friends & neighbors are perhaps thinking about these same things & counting us less as foes, and more as compatriots.

Again, thank you for your courage to write about this. Thank you for standing up for the voiceless. You will have special prayers said for you in my family.

God Bless You.

Thanks to all  the friends

Thanks to all  the friends who have shown sympathy for their Bahai countrymen and this senseless suffering our brothers and sisters are going through.

May God soon near the day when nobody in our Beloved Iran suffer for his belief, political nor ethnic background.

Special Thanks to MR. FARJAMI!

cosigner

With the permission of the writer of this article I like to be a cosigner as well.

ASG, Excellent analysis of

Root cause of all the problems that IRAN & Iranians have been dealing with.   Thanks for your comments.

These destructions are real! My own cousin told me so!

On my last trip to Iran through one of the desert towns (to remain nameless), as we were driving my own cousin pointed to a far distance where there was a bahaii cemetery, saying: "IN BISHARAFA HATTA MIRAN MORDEHAYEH IN BAHAII HAYE BADBAKHT ROW AZ GHABR DAR MIRAN! Tamaameh ghabra row kharaab kardand. Hatta mordashoonam row azaar midan!" He was visibly shaken and distraught. He even told me not to look directly, in case some one noticed,we could get in trouble, even though we were driving!! 

Obviously we are not bahaii, but what difference does it make? They are our brothers and sisters who happen to have different beliefs. Is that now a reason to do this to them? I know there are stories about colaboration with british and so on. But this has nothing to do with these individuals. Besides, in all the religions of the world, when you are dead, you are dead! Even Yazid, Hitler, moussoulini, or khomeini were not pulled out of the graves! These people have really given a bad name to islam! That's a shame!

But the problem is not only with bahaii, on my trip i found out that they do the same and worse to the moslems in behesteh zahra as well. Who are they? they are those who fought but they were not in line with this regime. For exampe, if you notice there is a large area where the grave are a few feet above the ground, it is because they burried new deads on top of the oppositions' graves, but people don't know this! So this regime really must go! They have put the shah to shame!

Thank you Mr.Farjami

It means so much to have an open minded and brave ham mihan like you.I wish there will be soon a situation in our beloved Iran that everyone would be free.

Most regards, Mona 

To a friend C

Who had benefit of Iran Iraq war? Who had benefit for the hate between Bahais and Moslems? Who made billions of dollars from Iranian war? Why Iran should be backward and the people should be unhappy, millions adicted, without work, in other countries. Can you answer these question, you are not confused and you know the answer? Who brings so many disunity and hate in the Middle Eastern countries? Why we have less universities and less ...from the West? Amir  Who brings hate and to be indifferent in our countries?

well, any fascist dictatorship needs a scapegoat...

Nazis had the Jews, Islamist regime has gone one step further, they have Bahais AND Jews.

Also, coming here and declaring ones "profound shame" whilst supporting the same Islamist regime and ideology which feeds and actively supports this kind of crimes against a section of Iranian society, is nothing less than shameless hypocricy.

ASG

What in the world you are talking about? You sound like a very confused character.

سیاست بین المللی استعمار نو

سیاست بین المللی استعمار نو

شاید متوجه باشید که سیاستهای جدید استعماری همان ایجاد تفرقه و تمامیت خواهی و کینه و نفرت است تا بتوانند کل جامعه ای را از هم بپاشند. متاسفانه دین و قومیت و زبان همه دستاویز استعمار نوین و طرح نظم جدید است. به امید روزی که این تفرقه با هوشیاری ملتهای نا آگاه دنیای سوم خنثی شود.

طرح جدال و نفرت بین سنی ها و شیعه ها که موجب جنگها و مشگلات بزرگ شده است و اکنون نفرت و تفرقه  بین بهاییان و مسلمانان بخصوص شیعه هم یکی از شگردهای استعماری است که متاسفانه ملت ما بایست هزینه آنرا بپردازد.

در این رهگذر نه تنها بهاییان قربانی میشوند بلکه خود مسلمانان هم قربانی خواهند شد کینه و نفرت کینه و نفرت به دنبال دارد و هر دو طرف بسوی کینه ورزی و انتقام جویی به پیش خواهند رفت و نتیجه آن به ضرر همه خواهد بود.

اگر یادتان باشد امام خمینی مرحوم و راحل یک زندانی در زمان شاه بود که متاسفانه تبعید هم شد ولی یادتان هست که بعد از به قدرت رسیدن چه ها انجام شد و بسیاری از سربازان و افسران شاید کاملا بی گناه هم قربانی شدند. وقتی که ظلم و کینه پایه بگیرد هیچ کس در امان نخواهد بود.

مرگ بسیار زود رس پسر امام مرحوم راحل و اعدام قطب زاده و... همه نشانه از آن دارد که برنامه ای پر توان طراحی شده است.

دوست من که دارای مادری بهایی بود و هیچ اطلاعی از بهاییت نداشت بعنوان بهایی مورد آزار قرار گرفت ولی حتی بهاییان هم به او خرده میگرفتند که میبایست مثل بقیه کشته و یا اعدام میشد تا مورد حمایت ودوستی ما قرار بگیرد. این بود که او هم که مثلا اعدام نشده بود مورد بی مهری همان بهاییان قرار گرفت و توسط آنان هم غارت شد درست شبیه همان کاری که همتایان مسلمانشان کرده بودند.  که از دیو دد ملولم و انسانم آرزوست. متاسفانه دین را ساختن انسانهای والا ناکام بوده است. به عبارت دیگر هم بهایی ها  هم مسلمانان متعصب تنها یک راه را میدانند و آن آزار همدیگر است. درست است که در قوانین بهاییت انتقام و جنگ مردود است  ولی خوب بشر بشر است و دنبال تمناهای دل خودش میرود.

امیدوارم روزی عشق و محبت جای خود را به این کینه توزیهای و انتقامها بدهد و راهی همچون نلسون ماندلا برگزیده بشود  دوستی و گذشت نه کینه و انتقامجویی که برنامه ریزی شده استعمار نوین است.

I am sorry and profoundly ashamed ...

I have similar childhood experiences with Bahai’s in my neighbourhood. Somehow we were all conditioned to be suspicious of Bahai’s, without being given a rational reason for it. We all went to the same school, looked the same,  talked with the same local accent and yet we were all brain washed to see them different. I was as guilty as any other child in my neighbourhood and the sense of guilt has lived with me ever since. I do not know of any Bahai’s in my nick of the wood and let alone any non-bahai’s  Iranians around me,  but if I ever come across one I will rush to offer my humble friendship, apology and deep respect for their belief.  Thank you Mahmoud and Iranian.com for giving me the opportunity to say sorry through this very thoughtful and soul searching blog.

Mamnoon

These frank and honest assessment of our own (non-Bahai) thoughts and attitudes -- and expressing them to the public -- go a long in eventually ending the senseless and cruel treatment of Bahais.

Thank you.