Sad what the Baha'i have to go through in Iran when they really do not bother anyone.
As You Were Saying...Iran persecutes religious minority
Maryam Safajoo Saturday, April 09, 2016
I grew up in the city of Karaj, just outside of Tehran. My family are Baha’i. We are followers of Baha’u’llah, who taught that the religions of the world come from the same Source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God.
The Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious minority. We have been persecuted throughout the faith’s 170-year history, but this persecution took on new intensity after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
In 1982, my mother and a number of other Baha’i women were arrested for simply being Baha’i. Eleven of these women were executed. My mother spent nearly two years in prison. She had no idea why she was spared and her friends were killed.
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As You Were Saying...Iran persecutes religious minority?
As You Were Saying...Iran persecutes religious minority
Maryam Safajoo Saturday, April 09, 2016
I grew up in the city of Karaj, just outside of Tehran. My family are Baha’i. We are followers of Baha’u’llah, who taught that the religions of the world come from the same Source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God.
The Baha’is are Iran’s largest religious minority. We have been persecuted throughout the faith’s 170-year history, but this persecution took on new intensity after the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
In 1982, my mother and a number of other Baha’i women were arrested for simply being Baha’i. Eleven of these women were executed. My mother spent nearly two years in prison. She had no idea why she was spared and her friends were killed.
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As You Were Saying...Iran persecutes religious minority?