Weekly Special Iran Now They Hang Women
Islamic nation will deal with the Baha is in accordance 1962 with her father Yadullah he was one of three
B” Rat' Saidel with its religious obligations as it has dealt with other Baha is hanged on March 12 1983 in Shiraz Miss Mah
hypocrites who have appeared in more dangerous garb mudnizhad was beaten before being executed
Ray Saidel is a researchassociate at the Center and have religious and satanic gatherings.” This state- While the President of the United States has appealed
For International Security Washington. DC ment is to be taken seriously Consider the actions of its so Ayatollah Khomeini and the Congress has passed a
____________________________________________ orginatór: Hojjatol-lslamQaZai is Religious Judge and resolution condemningthepersecutionofBaha'iS .lran's
Despite this century samazing and acceleratingtech President of the Revolutionary Court of Shiraz It was his policy has not been tempered Only a world wide wave
nological prowess socially most of the world slides back court which recently sentenced 22 Baha is to death in of revulsion such as that resulting from the Soviet Korean
ward adopting or surrendering to socio political sys reference to which he said I must say that by the plane shoot-down might prevent large scale genocide
tems as bad as the worst in history grace of Almighty God the Muslim nation of Iran which This requires major media motivation Unlikely Yet here
Our ships probe the solar system and beyond but follows the policies of the Sacred Household (the is a cause that is about as pure as you can get
who can fathom the souls of the dour bureaucrats who Inamate ) will God willing fulfill the prayer of Noah To date almost two hundred Baha is have been killed
presided at September s Soviet shootdown press confer (mentioned in the Koran) And Noah said Lord leave by the Islamic regime hundreds have been imprisoned
ence or those of the grim mullahs of the Islamic Repub- not a single family of Infidels on the Earth He doesn t thousands denied schooling employment or pensions
lic of Iran who hang women and teen age girls for reli- intend to due to their religion Representatives of the Iranian
gious reasons I admit prejudice I distrust humorless Among those hanged June 18th (1983) in Shiraz Miss government scoft nonsensical fabrications cus
people selfrighteous commissars and clerics put my hair Mahshid Nirumand age 18 a college chemistry major torn made lies Their U N mission explains Bahaism is
on end She served on the Baha i youth committee the Shiraz not a religion but rather it is a political entity created
The Korean 007 plane atrocity brought into focus for Baha i teaching committee the Baha i campus club And and nourished by anti Islamic and Colonial Powers
a time at least the ruthless implacable character of our there is Miss Simm Sabiri early 20 s a victim of persecu The Iranian U N n- isslon ( using the theocracy s special
Soviet, enemy Unfortunately (though amply demon tion long before her hanging on June18 Her family of logic) states that the Government of the Islamic
strated by a long well publicized episode involving the eleven was forced twice to move from one town to Republic of Iran never sentences or punishes any mdi
seizing of our diplomats) the ruthless implacable char another In the fall of 1979 the Sabiri home in Marvdasht vidual on the charge of holding a particular ideology or
acter of resurgent Islam still does not register Eventually was destroyed b a fire se b a mob The Sabiris moved following a particular faith although the Constitution
it will And there is ample tragic reason to fear that to be onto Bahman Their home therewas looted and set afire does not recognize Baha ism as a religion nevertheless
burnt as fuel for this flame of enlightenment will be the Forced from town the family settled in Shiraz where its followers have never been punished merely and
Baha is of Iran True to ecent Western democratic tradi Miss Sabiri was arrested for her Baha activities (she had simply because of their beliefs The explanation of
tion their predicament has to date aroused little interest, been active in the Baha i education of children) In course is that those 1 punished were agents of Israel
After all — they control no oil they are not revolutionar- March her cousin Rahmatullah Vafai was a(so hanged in (and that earlier Bahai were agentsof the British Empire)
tes they have no multi national corporate ties Why S iraz Others MissShirin Dalvand early 20s Miss Akh- Amnesty International bas a different opinion they
sould the West be (now) more than deeply con tar Sabet 19 years old Mrs Tahirih Siyavushi, 32 years are being persecuted solely for their religious beliefs
cerned? Later we II cry at their graves For this there is old were arrested in the fall of 1982 because of their Since its founding in 1844 the Baha i religion has
precedent Baha s activities (including the education of childrenl been considered a heresy by Islam (over 20000 believers
No community under Islam could be less deserving Mrs Siyavushi was the wife of Jamshid hanged two days were put to death in the early days) now in revolution-
of persecution than the essentially non political Baha i earlier Miss Zarrin Muqimi, early 20s had moved with ary Iran once again the mullahs have whipped up a
Their religion (unlike Islam) is a peace-loving one It her family to Shiraz where her father was to repair and frenzy of anti Bahai persecution With no legal standing
requires the faithful to abstain from partisan politics refurbish Baha i properties that had been partially dem- (the religion is not recognized by the Government or
forbids subversive activity endorses total loyalty and olishe&by authorities She was a teacher of Baha'i child Constitution) Bahais and their property can be attacked
obedience to civil authority Yet the 300 000 Iranian ren s classes Roay lshraqi 22 years old was known as a by the most vicious clerical and criminal elements in Iran
Baha community faces imminent destruction It has devoted Baha i youth whose courageous attitude served with near complete impunity They need not fear retalia
been told Before it is too late the , , .js should recant 1 as an example to other Baha i young people Miss Mona tion The peaceful Baha is religion forbids it
Bahaism Otherwise the da y will soon come when the Mahumudnizhad, 18 years old was arrested in the fall of
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