An Open Letter to the Government of Iran: We, as speCial ts in lraflia0 and islamic studies, protest the hanging of 16 Bahá'iS, including seVel wOm and three ( cnage girlS by the authOri 5 of the islamic RepUb of iran in the city of Shiraz on June 16 and 18, 1983. The iranian ahá'isha repe tedlY expressed and demonstrated their loyalty to iran. Neverthess, they have been systemati t persecuted for the mere fact that they adhere to a religion other than islam. Such persecution and these cruel and un PSt executions seem to us a contradictiofl of all that is best in the traditiOflS of Islam and the Iranian people. Ervand Abrahu n. Baruc 1 College, (J ' NicholaS Ileer, UiiiverSitY of hjngtofl Charles J. Adams. McGill UnivCr5 Y Renata liolod, University of Pennsylvania FoUa Aiflh, .lohtm Hopk Uni/.cr tY george l1OLIrafl', SUNV at Buffalo Mehrdad UCLA Richard Uovaflfli 5 ° UCLA Nazib ASUbI, UCLA Stephen HumPh1 S University of WIscOflsifl Unity AzarPSY' uc BerkelCY Char CS Issawi, Princetofl UniversitY Jere, L. Baclira '. Uni 'erStY ol' Wasl1 1 f ° oury S. Al_Kha iY portland State UniversitY Anhin Banafl 1 . UCLA Edward KeI1I1 , Harvard U 0 IVCtS1tY AU Bafl a1i . BostOil College Jeaii I,Uc KrawcZY UCLA lraj BaShiri , UniversitY of Mini SOt i t Carla KlaU5I UniversitY of Missouri Ulku Bates, Huntet ollegC, CONY James KrilZCk, UniVersitY of Utah Lawrence V. Berman, Stanford University eorge 1,eflCz0 ' ' UC l3erkeley Andras 0 r0gligdhi UCLA Michael 1,oraiflC, University of hingt0n Gerhard Bowering. University of PentisYlV AIim 1,tilher, UnivetsitY ol' Michigan Peter Brow ' 5 . UC BerkeleY Ja il t MahIfl0t ' University of Utah RichardW. Builiet, ColU1flb Uni/'er Y george Makdisi, University of p nSyl i 3 Jerome Clinton, Princeton UniversitY Mat i utfial 5ay d M a r S O l, UCLA Richard Cottam, niverSity of p tsburgl1 Bradford Martin, Indiana University kenneth CunO, UCLA Brinkley MesSick, Princeton UniversitY Eric Davis, utgers University Heshmat MoayY ' University of hiCag0 Peter Duignan, Stanford niver ty James M flr0e, UC Berkeley Richard Eaton, univerSity of Arizoila Michael MorOnY, UCLA Daniel Elton, University of Hawaii KhOSrOw MóSt0 , UniversitY of Utah MnslCe Embree, Columbia univerSity Roy P. Motta deh, Princeton University Asghar Fath , University of Calgary Guity Nashat, 00 ivetsity of Illinois Adele K. FerdOW 5, univerSity of Louisville Pierre berliflg, Hunter college, CONY Michael Fischer, Rice university Daniel Pipes, Harvard njvcrsity JosePl Fletcher, Harvard niver5ity David powers. Cornell university chard Frank, Catholic UniversitY of America Faz Iur Rabman, University of hicag0 Richard N. Frye, Harvard university gouh K. Ramazam, univerSity of Virginia l Gene Gartliwaite, Dartmouth ollcge Ama l RasSam , Queens oIlege, CUNY Raymond D. Gastil, Freedom House Nosratottab Rassek , Lewis and Clark oilege Clifford Geertz, Institute for Advanced StudieS, Nada v Sairan, Harvard university Princeton Stanford 3. ShaW, UCLA S.D. Goitein, Institute for Advanced Studies, Fadla Shehad, Rutgers nivetSity l Princeton. 3.1. Smith, Harvard univerSity Arthur E. GoldScl m dt pennsyl5at a State John Mason Smith, UC BerkeleY U iVer5itY Girdhad Lal TikkU, niverst y of llliilOis l LenU E. Goodman. University of Hawaii Sherry Vatter, UCLA OlegG ' Harvard University SperOs VryOniS Jr., UCLA Peter Gran, TemPle University Wayne S. Vucinicl , Stanford nivcrsity Robert L. Culick Jr., American Graduate SchOol G.M. Wickens, UniversitY of Toronto of lnternati0 3 flageuh1e t William Young, UCLA GerrY A. 1-late, UCLA Wilbaill I. Zart flatt. Johns HopkilTh 0 ivcrSity - Andras 1-lamori, Princeton University - Farhat Ziadeh. Univer5itY ol' hingtOn William Hana 'aY, University of Penn5Yl” Marshi i.oniS. UniversitY of hicag0 John Hayes. UCLA - - ‘‘(Patd for by the Bahal Temple of Los Gatos). - OCTOBER 5, 1983 LOS GATOS WEEKLY 5 BPOOO2 59
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