"The shining spark of truth cometh forth only after the clash of differing opinions." —Abdul-Baha
"The conscience of man is sacred and to be respected."
—Abdul-Baha
U.S. District Court Rules against Wilmette, Haifan Bahais:
March 8, 2007 + Reform Bahai Faith Amici Curiae Letters to Judge Amy St Eve,
7th US District Court of Northern Illinois
Februrary 20, 2009 - 3-minute Mp3 Recording
7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges hammer NSA's attorney
Judge Diane S. Sykes: "Clearly raises some Constitutional concerns"
May 18, 2009. The Chicago Tribune Baha'i rift: Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith
Comments posted to Chicago Tribune Forum.
An Analysis of Abdul-Baha's 1912 Authentic Covenant
Abdul-Baha's Authentic Covenant of 1912, TRB June 2010
Newcomers might want to start here or with Essential Readings:
Shunning > Menu Essential Reading *****
The Baha'i Technique - Slander & Shunning Essential Reading *****
Steven Scholl - "Why I voluntarily left the religion" - Shunning of Family
Alison Marshall - "How the Baha'i administration behaves"
Individual Conscience": "A Dangerous Delusion from Christianity"9/23/2001 Doug Martin, uhj member
Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, British Museum document expert, 1930: “That is to say, the writing does not agree with the hypothesis that it was all written by one person.... A minute comparison of the authenticated writing [of Abdul-Baha] with the writing on every page of the alleged will....has failed to detect in any part of the will the characteristics of the writing of Abdul Baha.” The Certified Copy of the Report at the Library of Congress:
Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdul-Baha.
Comments on Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell's Report
Ruth White, EXCERPTS The Bahai Organization the Enemy of the Bahai Religion? 1929. Discusses the unauthentic will of Abdul-Baha. The foremost forensic expert of the British Museum, Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, judged it a fraud in 1929. For further details, see Ruth White's Bahai Leads Out of the Labyrinth. New York : Universal Publishing, 1944.
Ruth White Collection Deposited with Library of Congress, 1930
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, EXCERPTS from Broken Silence: The Story of Today's Struggle for Religious Freedom, 1940 Lawsuit
Julie Chanler, EXCERPTS From Gaslight to Dawn: An Autobiography. The New History Foundation, 1956.
Deborah Buchhorn, New Mexico LAWSUIT against bahai institutions for FRAUD & LIBEL 3/2/200
"These are effectual and sufficient proofs that the conscience of man is sacred and to be respected; and that liberty thereof produces widening of ideas, amendment of morals, improvement of conduct, disclosure of the secrets of creation, and manifestation of the hidden verities of the contingent world. Moreover, if interrogation of conscience, which is one of the private possessions of the heart and the soul, take place in this world, what further recompense remains for man in the court of divine justice at the day of general resurrection? Convictions and ideas are within the scope of the comprehension of the King of kings, not of kings; and soul and conscience are between the fingers of control of the Lord of hearts, not of [His] servants. So in the world of existence two persons unanimous in all grades [of thought] and all beliefs cannot be found." —Abdul-Baha, A Traveler's Narrative, 91.
"This is a goodly temple and congregation, for--praise be to God!--this is a house of worship [Central Congregational Church in Brooklyn on 16 June 1912] wherein conscientious opinion has free sway. Every religion and every religious aspiration may be freely voiced and expressed here. Just as in the world of politics there is need for free thought, likewise in the world of religion there should be the right of unrestricted individual belief. Consider what a vast difference exists between modern democracy and the old forms of despotism. Under an autocratic government the opinions of men are not free, and development is stifled, whereas in a democracy, because thought and speech are not restricted, the greatest progress is witnessed. It is likewise true in the world of religion. When freedom of conscience, liberty of thought and right of speech prevail--that is to say, when every man according to his own idealization may give expression to his beliefs--development and growth are inevitable. Therefore, this is a blessed church because its pulpit is open to every religion, the ideals of which may be set forth with openness and freedom." —Abdul-Baha, The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 197.
Professor Juan Cole Surveys Bahai Censorship
Brief Quotations - Professor Juan Cole Selected Messages
"Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community" RSR 2002
"The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997" JSSR 1998
"Abdul-Baha's 'Treatise on Leadership'" May, 1998 (separation of church & state)
"Race, Immorality and Money in the American Baha’i Community [LA]" Religion 2000
"Reply of Juan Cole to Peter Khan Talk in New Zealand of June, 2000"
Juan Cole on New Orthodoxy of Baha'i Faith 2005
Assorted Controversial Documents & Issues
LA Study Class and origins of conflict (1970) 2/4/2001Karen Bacquet
LA Study Class Documents and Newsletter 1976-83
Censorship of Salmani's Memoirs by the Baha'i Authorities re Kalimat Press 1982
"A Modest Proposal" 1987 David Langness ***
"The Service of Women" 1988 Several authors
Denis MacEoin, Crisis in Babi and Baha'i Studies Bulletin, (British Society for Middle Eastern Studies), Vol. 17, No. 1 (1990), pp. 55-61.
Denis MacEoin, A Few Words in Response to Cole's 'Reply to MacEoin.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (1991), pp. 86-87.
[Bahai] "Psychiatrist cuts deal on sex assault charges" 4/94 re Dr. Danesh
The Majnun Post 2/7/96 (On talisman) John Walbridge
The Pickering Tape 4/96
"Crisis of Faith" 5/15/96 Steven Scholl ****
Letter: Stephen Birkland, Continental Board of Counsellors 7/16/96
"Baha'i Leaders Vexed by On-Line Critics" Winter 1997 K. Paul Johnson
The suppression of Dialogue Magazine 1997 Steven Scholl
Mark Towfiq's NO Vote Campaign on BCCA mailing lists 3/12/97
uhj expulsion of Michael McKenny from the Bahai faith 7/97 Michael McKenny
BCCA Collusion Suppressing talk.religion.bahai Fall 1997
Susan Maneck's NO Vote Campaign on AOL 12/7/98
Ex-Bahai - NSA warns Australian Bahais 11/4/97 Nima Hazini
Baha'i Encyclopedia hijacked by Farzam Arbab 2/17/1999
To LSA of Arlington. Massachusetts March 21, 1999 Jenifer Tidwell
Dismissal of NSA Member Judge James F. Nelson... April 1999 Juan Cole
Full Text of UHJ's Letter of April 7, 1999
"Commentary" on UHJ's "outburst of vehement ignorance" 6//6/99 Juan Cole
My case - a letter to my friends 7/28/99 Terry Culhane
uhj to Anthony A. Lee, editor of Kalimat Press re Cole's book Cf Cole below 8/99
Juan Cole Responds to the uhj's Backbiting Campaign Cf Kalimat above 8/99
Brief History of Douglas Martin, member, uhj 1/31/2000 Juan Cole
How "Review" acts as Censorship 3/28/2000 Alison Marshall re Bahai World
"Removed your Name from Membership Rolls" 3/29/2000 Alison Marshall
My experience as a member of the Baha'i Faith 2001 Dennis James Rogers
New Mexico LAWSUIT against bahai institutions for FRAUD & LIBEL 3/2/2001 Deborah Buchhorn
New Mexico LAWSUIT - Response to Motion to Dismiss 5/2001 Yorgos D. Marinakis, Attorney
New Mexico LAWSUIT - Attorney's Statement 5/26/2001 Yorgos D. Marinakis, Attorney
New Mexico LAWSUIT - Amicus Curiae 7/13/2001
"Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community"2001 Karen Bacquet Cultic Studies Journal
Denis MacEoin Reviews Making the Crooked Straight H-Bahai, 2001
Review of i baha'i by Margit Warburg. Turin, Italy, 2001. Daniela Pinna
bahai faith & its Influence on the United Nations 5/2002
Hoda Mahmoudi's program on the Iranian TV Network (NITV) Nima Hazini 8/30/2002+
Obituary for Linda Walbridge by Juan Cole 12/10/2002
EVIDENCE grows... Dr. David Kelly & the Baha'i Faith > Bahai in Politics
Talisman9 "Moderator" Steve Marshall - "Baby Torturer" summer 2004
Bahai institutions DRIVING people out - Maneck's "get over it" - i.e., injustice of uhj 9/17/03; 12/2005
BANK FRAUD: Baha'i technique of loan application, false, inflated statistics to qualify for loans 5/2005
BCCA (Bahai Computer and Communication Association) long history of censoring Baha'is on the Internet
The Baha'i Cadre System, EXCERPTS Randy Burns 2005
The Modern Inquisition: Seven Prominent Catholics and their Struggles
with the Vatican. 2000. Australian former priest Paul Collins.
Kalimát Press Petition 2006
Professor Dann May, Phyllis E Bernard Please leave us alone. 2006
Why I Left.... 2-16-07
Susan Maneck - The Video: Shiite Ideology of Baha'i Fanaticism 2007
An environment of intellectual repression September 10, 2007
A Response to Moojan Momen's Takfir & Slanderous Vilification. FG. Religion 38 No 4 2008.
Universal Religion, Jenabe Fazel Mazandarani
FG | universal house of justice
To the UHJ - March 31, 1997
Essential Reading
"Please remove my name and address from your mailing list." 1996
Antinomies 1996 - 2000
Open Petition for Baha'i Reformation 2/ 8/ 2001
A Bahai in *Perfectly* Good Standing 11/2001
Letter to the Editor - O&E Newspapers MODEL News Release 3/7/2002 circ. 120,000
uhj message to Iranian bahais Day of the Covenant 11/26/03
Letter to a Baha'i Scholar 2-14-04
The Old Lie
Scapegoat
Straw Man 9/14/06
William Garlington. The Bahai Faith in America. Praeger. 2005. Review.
Sen McGlinn & FG - A 1996 Conversation, Censored....
Sen McGlinn, Church and State. Leiden, 2005. Review.
Letters from the American Desert: Signposts of a Journey, A Vision 2008
Abdul-Baha's Fraudulent will and testament 2007 *****
Reposts
Why I Don't Respond to Bahai Fundamentalists 4/2001
False Membership Statistics for US Baha'i community & elsewhere
CAUTION -- Non-bahais & Newcomers -- Psychological War Zone
Other Reposts
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