[lbo-talk] Baha'i faith {was: Ahmadinejad's letter]

Yoshie Furuhashi critical.montages at gmail.com
Thu May 11 08:34:09 PDT 2006


On 5/11/06, Jim Devine <jdevine03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> By the way, how many people in Iran are of the Baha'i faith? are they
> still being persecuted?

The Baha'i population in Iran is the second largest in the world after that in India.


>From a press release issued by "[r]epresentatives of the American Baha'i
community" in 1999, via Juan Cole: "Since the Islamic regime took power more than 200 Baha'is have been executed on account of their religion. With 300,000 adherents, Baha'is are Iran's largest religious minority. The Baha'i Faith is not recognized as a legitimate religion in Iran and Baha'is have no constitutional rights" (<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/hrbh798.htm>).

Cole has a paper on the history of Bahai in Iran: "Religious Dissidence and Urban Leadership: Bahais in Qajar Shiraz and Tehran," Iran: Journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies 37 [1999]: 123-142, (<http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2000/urbanbh2.htm>).

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