#bahai #bahais #bahairights Reform Bahai Faith P. O. Box 81842 Rochester, MI 48308-1842 USA https://www.ReformBahai.org Introduction to the Reform Bahai Faith. A Talk Presented to the Troy Interfaith Group, March 5, 2012, Troy, Michigan. YouTube, 26 minutes. https://youtu.be/jH1SHXqq6AU Abdul-Baha's Authentic Covenant of 1912 (Suppressed by Wilmette and Haifan Baha'is) https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.html Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rules three times against Haifan Baha'is of Wilmette, Illinois. 2006 to 2010 Written Court Opinion https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/rssExec.pl?Time=any&FromMonth=&FromDay=&FromYear=&ToMonth=&ToDay=&ToYear=&Author=any&AuthorName=&Case=any&CaseY1=0&CaseY2=8&CaseN1=2&CaseN2=3&CaseN3=0&CaseN4=6&Submit=Submit&RssJudgeName=Easterbrook Oral Argument recordings https://media.ca7.uscourts.gov/oralArguments/oar.jsp?caseyear=08&casenumber=2306&listCase=List+case%28s%29 https://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?caseno=08-2306&submit=showdkt&yr=08&num=2306 Introduction to the Reform Bahai Faith. A Talk Presented to the Troy Interfaith Group, March 5, 2012, Troy, Michigan. YouTube, 26 minutes. https://youtu.be/jH1SHXqq6AU Bahai Writings > Early Bahai Sources > Star of the West volumes Biography of Juan Cole https://www.juancole.com/toward-an-authorized-biography The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship Reform Bahai Faith https://www.ReformBahai.org Reform Bahai Faith Forum https://reformbahai.org/forum/ A Talk Presented to the Troy Interfaith Group, March 5, 2012, Troy, Michigan. 26 minutes. https://www.reformbahai.org/about.html#intro About the Reform Bahai Faith https://www.reformbahai.org/about.html Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Authentic Covenant https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.html An Analysis of Abdul-Baha's 1912 Authentic Covenant https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant_comments.html Recommended Works on Babi and Bahai History https://reformbahai.org/Babi_Bahai_history.html Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith. 99¢ Kindle SALE! #bahai #bahais #bahairights https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Reform-Bahai-ebook/dp/B003TXT4FC/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&qid=1326577087&sr=8-7 Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith. 99¢ ePub SALE! #bahai #bahais #bahairights https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-universal-principles-of-the-reform-bahai-faith-bahaullah/1009036187?ean=9780982677803&itm=10&usri=frederick+glaysher Reform Bahai Faith https://www.ReformBahai.org Recommended Works on Babi and Bahai History https://www.reformbahai.org/Babi_Bahai_history.html About the Reform Bahai Faith https://www.reformbahai.org/about.html Abdu'l-Baha's 1912 Authentic Covenant https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.html An Analysis of Abdul-Baha's 1912 Authentic Covenant https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant_comments.html Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell. Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdul-Baha. 1930. Certified Copy from the Library of Congress. https://www.reformbahai.org/CAMitchell_Report.html Jenabe Fazel Mazandarani. Universal Religion https://www.reformbahai.org/Jenabe_Fazel.html 95 Theses of the Reform Bahai Faith https://www.ReformBahai.org/95_Theses.html On Bahai Liberty https://www.reformbahai.org/On_Bahai_Liberty.html Reform Bahai Articles https://www.reformbahai.org/Reform_Bahai_Articles.html Ruth White https://www.reformbahai.org/Ruth_White.html Ruth White Collection, Library of Congress, 1930 https://reformbahai.org/images/WhiteLCDocs.pdf Ruth White, Bahai Leads Out of the Labyrinth. Universal Publishing Company, 1944. 259 pages. https://www.reformbahai.org/WhiteBLOL.pdf Ruth White. Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament. Beverly Hills: White, 1946. https://www.reformbahai.org/WhiteABQWT.pdf Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell. Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdul-Baha. 1930. Certified Copy from the Library of Congress. https://www.reformbahai.org/CAMitchell_Report.html Mirza Ahmad Sohrab https://www.reformbahai.org/Mirza_Ahmad_Sohrab.html Julie Chanler https://www.reformbahai.org/Julie_Chanler.html Some Vital Bahai Principles https://www.reformbahai.org/Some_Vital_Bahai_Principles.html The Reform Bahai Press https://www.reformbahai.org/Reform_Bahai_Press.html Reform Bahai Updates https://www.reformbahai.org/Update.html Reform Bahai Declarations https://www.reformbahai.org/Declare.html Reform Bahai Firesides https://www.reformbahai.org/fireside_meetings.html#fireside A Global Testament of Faith https://www.reformbahai.org/Global_Testament_of_Faith.html Bahai Economic Principles https://reformbahai.org/Bahai_Economic_Principles.html Reform Bahai Faith Rochester, Michigan USA https://www.ReformBahai.org Opinion of US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals, Case No. 08-2306 - November 23, 2010 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/US_7th_Circuit_Court_of_Appeals_11-23-2010.html 7th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges hammer NSA's attorney 2-20-09 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/USCourt_Appeals09.htm Response by Orthodox Bahá'í Faith https://trueseeker.typepad.com/true_seeker/court_case.html Blog > Reform Bahai Faith https://reformbahai.blogspot.com Baha'i Faith & 7th Circuit Court of Appeals https://bahaifaith7thcircuitcourtofappeals.blogspot.com Amici Curiae https://reformbahai.org/Amici_Curiae.html Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Public Access to Oral Argument recordings,Opinions 08-2306 : Nat'l Spiritual v. Nat'l Spiritual 02/20/2009 Oral Argument 11/23/2010 Opinion (SYKES) https://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?caseno=08-2306&submit=showdkt&yr=08&num=2306 Judge: Baha'i believers can call themselves Baha'i Chicago BreakingNews November 23, 2010 https://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/judge-bahai-believers-can-call-themselves-bahai.html Federal appeals court rules in favor of splinter Baha'i group November 25, 2010 8:12 PM https://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/federal-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-splinter-bahai-group.html Orthodox believers can keep calling themselves Baha'i, court says. November 25, 2010 By Manya A. Brachear, Chicago Tribune reporter. https://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/federal-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-splinter-bahai-group.html Federal appeals court rules in favor of splinter Baha'i group November 25, 2010 8:12 PM https://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/federal-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-splinter-bahai-group.html Chicago Tribune. Baha'i rift. Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith https://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-05-18/news/0905170216_1_orthodox-community-rift-jesus-and-muhammad https://www.google.com/url?sa=D&q=https://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-05-18/news/0905170216_1_orthodox-community-rift-jesus-and-muhammad Comments posted in response to The Chicago Tribune: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Chicago_Tribune.html Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Public Access to Oral Argument recordings, View or Download Documents 08-2306 : Nat'l Spiritual v. Nat'l Spiritual Case Type: Civil ; Nature of Suit: Oth Stat Act-federal Question Doc Uploaded Filed Description 2 02/20/2009 02/20/2009 Oral Argument 3 11/23/2010 11/23/2010 Opinion (SYKES) https://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?caseno=08-2306&submit=showdkt&yr=08&num=2306 Baha'i Faith & 7th Circuit Court of Appeals https://bahaifaith7thcircuitcourtofappeals.blogspot.com/ Frederick Glaysher The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship Baha'is in My Backyard - Full Interview. 2.4 hours. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Bahais_in_My_Backyard.html Full interview below in three segments; four excerpts on YouTube. Other interviews. Frederick Glaysher Given the US Federal Court decisions ruling three times against the Haifan Baha'i denomination in 2008 to 2010, I believe it is the right moment to make available this full interview for people researching the Bahai Faith. I was interviewed for the movie Baha'is in My Backyard on October 18, 2004. The movie was produced by the Israeli company Belfilms. At the time I had not yet realized that the 1912 Covenant of Abdul-Baha existed, as documented in the early Bahai magazine the Star of the West and by Ruth White, as well as other sources, and was the formative document for the Bahai Movement in the West, during Abdul-Baha's lifetime, both in the United States and Europe. Consequently, the 1912 Authentic Covenant of Abdul-Baha is the central document for the renewed and revived Reform Bahai Faith. Accordingly, some of my remarks in this interview on Shoghi Effendi would be revised today, as would my acceptance of approximately a million Baha'is in India, which now appears actually to be closer to merely 11,000 people, mostly Iranian immigrants, according to the testimony of an Indian who was a former NSA member. Otherwise, my opinions and concerns would remain the same today, though perhaps my comments on the maniuplation of Google search results for Baha'i were more applicable in 2004. Google has increasingly become aware of and responsive to how people and organizations attempt to manipulate its results. Please note that I was interviewed by Belfilms for two and a half hours but they chose a highly selective two minutes to use, carefully arranged and presented, which distort the full context of my comments and portray me in an unfavorable light, at best, and in a way that is reminiscent of the tactics of the Haifan Baha'is themselves. They also violated client confidentiality by making our contract public, including my persoanl signature, without my permission, and in a way that casts suspicion upon me. Although required by our mutually agreed upon contract, Belfilms both failed to notify me before the first public broadcast of the film and to provide me with a requisite DVD copy until I had heard of the airing several months after the event and reminded them of their obligations. The short clip of my interview is further framed with a lead-in and closing that is meant to present me in a ridiculous and paranoid fashion*(mp3 below). I maintain the fullness of the interview allows the viewer a more comprehensive perspective on both myself and the manner in which the movie was created, as well as the issues involved. While people elsewhere on the Internet have speculated that the Unitarian Baha'is and Baha'u'llah's great-grand-daughter Nigar Bahai Amsalem may have funded, or been behind the movie, or the Haifan Baha'is in what would be a highly characteristic counter-disinformation effort, since much of the movie simultaneously attempts to diffuse suspicions raised in the film, presenting Haifans as innocuous, the fact remains that in 2011 it is still unresolved from whom or where Belfilms received funding for the movie and what was the true motivation for its production. Others have speculated that the Israeli government was behind the movie in some way. To a perceptive viewer aware of the actual historical record of Haifan Baha'is when it comes to religious freedom and speech, the movie clearly constitutes more than a "mockumentary." Baha'is in My Backyard - Segment 1 - Full Interview - Streaming wmv. Naama Pyritz from Belfilms was the interviewer. Baha'is in My Backyard - Segment 2 - Full Interview - Two Israeli cameramen present throughout the full interview. Baha'is in My Backyard - Segment 3 - Full Interview On Youtube - Four excerpts of Full Interview of Frederick Glaysher by Belfilms https://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=27E91AB0E43D5B74 Bahais in My Backyard - trailer Youtube - Sets up Frederick Glaysher and Juan Cole as the demons in the paranoid fantasies of the uhj. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSjw1OdRvs "Documentary, 54 min. A Belfilms Production Directed by Naama Pyritz & Asaf Shafir. Belfilms is one of the leading production houses in Israel, producing drama, documentaries, feature films and commercials, for Israeli and foreign broadcasters, advertising agencies, and international co-productions. Belfilms features and documentaries have been screened in the cinema and television throughout the world and at film and television leading festivals." Much of the finished movie Bahais in My Backyard is available on Youtube Playlist - though edited. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=baha'is+in+my+backyard&aq=f *Mp3 - One of the cameramen deceitfully reassured me at the end of their taping that "I want to ease your mind about what we're doing. Just to make sure, that we have the integrity to present it exactly as it came out." As explained and suggested above and demonstrated by the final product of the movie, I believe they handled the interview without any integrity whatsoever and harbored malicious intentions from the start. Naama Pyritz and cameramen at the end: Mp3 recording 2 minutes. https://reformbahai.blogspot.com YOUTUBE Introduction to the Reform Bahai Faith. A Talk Presented to the Troy Interfaith Group, March 5, 2012, Troy, Michigan. YouTube, 26 minutes. https://youtu.be/jH1SHXqq6AU Baha'is in My Backyard 1 - From Full Interview of Frederick Glaysher by Belfilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95bqQl2vVLs Baha'is in My Backyard 2 - From Full Interview of Frederick Glaysher by Belfilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG1SsLIeyuQ Baha'is in My Backyard 3 - From Full Interview of Frederick Glaysher by Belfilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBZlkQ7sYA Baha'is in My Backyard 4 - From Full Interview of Frederick Glaysher by Belfilms https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVz1qa1UQL0 Other Baha'i Beliefs https://community.beliefnet.com/go/forum/view/43861/69959/Other_Bahai_Beliefs Yahoo Group - ReformBahai https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship Modernity and the Millennium. Juan Cole. https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2011/06/07/modernity-and-the-millennium-juan-r-i-cole/ The Bahai Faith in America. William Garlington. https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2011/06/12/the-bahai-faith-in-america-william-garlington/ Church and State. Sen McGlinn. https://fglaysher.com/TheGlobe/2011/06/16/church-and-state-sen-mcglinn/ Star of the West https://books.google.com/books?id=rw4YAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=editions:LCCN2001221986 https://books.google.com/books?id=2A8YAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA16&dq=star+of+the+west+baha+date:0-1923&lr=&as_brr=1&as_pt=ALLTYPES#PPA1,M1 Bahai Teaching, 1912 Address Upon the Covenant https://fglaysher.com/reformbahai/images/Bahai_Teaching.pdf "The Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith" Reform Bahai Press, 2008. 148 pages. Kindle, ePub. https://www.reformbahai.org/Reform_Bahai_Press.html Letters from the American Desert. Kindle, ePub. https://www.reformbahai.org/Reform_Bahai_Press.html Amazon, paper: https://www.amazon.com/Universal-Principles-Reform-Bahai-Faith/dp/0967042100/ref=ed_oe_p Contempt Motion by Wilmette NSA & Response by Orthodox Bahá'í Faith: https://trueseeker.typepad.com/true_seeker/court_case.html Review of Sen McGlinn, Church and State. Leiden, 2005. https://fglaysher.com/Reviews/2007/12/15/sen-mcglinn-church-and-state-leiden-2005/ Professional genealogist Will Johnson's webpage, Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell: https://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Charles_Ainsworth_Mitchell "He was an early adherent of the Baha'i faith, but dropped out when it got too organized." https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/283835 reformbahai@comcast.net Frederick Glaysher www.fglaysher.com BAHA'I FANTASY NEWS SERVICE https://sallyofthevalley.blogspot.com/ Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell - Certified Copy from the Library of Congress Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha. 1930. https://www.reformbahai.org/CAMitchell_Report.htm Professional genealogist Will Johnson's webpage, Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell: https://www.countyhistorian.com/cecilweb/index.php/Charles_Ainsworth_Mitchell Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant https://www.reformbahai.org/Covenant.htm Yahoo Group - Bahai Censorship https://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahaicensorship/ Yahoo Group - ReformBahai https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai https://groups.google.com.au/group/talk.religion.bahai/topics?lnk=rgh&hl=en https://groups.google.com.au/group/talk.religion.bahai/topics?lnk=rgh&hl=en https://groups.google.com.au/group/talk.religion.bahai/topics?gvc=2&hl=en https://groups-beta.google.com/group/talk.religion.bahai?gvc=2&hl=en bahaicensorship07@fglaysher.com 95 Theses # Reform Bahai Faith The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience 95 Thesen des Reformierten Bahai Glaubens https://www.reformbahai.org/95_Thesen_des_Reformierten_Bahai_Glaubens.html "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Shunning & Slander > Menu https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm Frederick Glaysher The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Susan Maneck, Baha'i scholar Susan Maneck: A Widely-Recognized Liar and Slanderer https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck8.htm talisman9 "moderator" Steve Marshall - "babytorturer" https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hate16.htm Frederick Glaysher The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ See ALSO "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Shunning > Menu https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm talk.religion.bahai on Usenet https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Usenet.htm Shunning > Menu https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm Compare "The Bahai Technique" - Slander & Shunning https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Why I Don't Respond to Fundamentalists https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Why1.htm Yahoo Group - Bahai Censorship https://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahaicensorship/ Yahoo Group - ReformBahai https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai 95 Thesen des Reformierten Bahai Glaubens https://www.reformbahai.org/95_Thesen_des_Reformierten_Bahai_Glaubens.html LES 95 ThÈses DE LA FOI BAHA'IE RÉFORMÉE https://www.maison-issa.com/bahai_theses.html Blog > Reform Bahai Faith https://reformbahaifaith.blogspot.com/ https://feeds.feedburner.com/ReformBahaiFaith https://reformbahaifaith.blogspot.com/atom.xml On Bahai Liberty - # Reform Bahai Faith On Bahai Liberty www.reformbahai.org/on_bahai_liberty.htm Reform Bahai Faith https://reformbahaifaith.blogspot.com/ On Bahai Liberty blog:
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Group https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai https://www.reformbahai.org/95Theses.htm https://www.reformbahai.org/Sohrab.html FROM 95 Theses: The Reform Bahai Faith https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai Group email: bahaicensorship@yahoogroups.com https://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahaicensorship Group email: bahaicensorship@yahoogroups.com Frederick Glaysher The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ 95 Theses of the Reformed Bahai Faith https://www.ReformBahai.org https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/95ReformedBF.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/95ReformedBF.htm Join a new Yahoo Group, Bahai Censorship! https://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahaicensorship/ Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Broken Silence. The Story of Today's Struggle for Religious Freedom. New York: Universal Publishing, 1942. Reprinted. H-Bahai: Lansing, Michigan, 2004. https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/P-T/S/sohrab/BS.htm Download with one click: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/SohrabBrokenSilence.pdf The Bahai Technique Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm The Bahai Technique Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/images/Bahai-IDgif.gif KELLY EVIDENCE grows... Dr. David Kelly & the Baha'i Faith https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Kelly.htm Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ EVIDENCE grows... Dr. David Kelly & the Baha'i Faith https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Kelly.htm Roger Kingdon versus Barney Leith's Account https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Kelly100502.htm Mai Pederson (Al-Sadat) Arab Kuwaiti American Baha'i https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/KellyMai.htm Professor Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan, "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community," Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (March, 2002):195-217: https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2002/fundbhfn.htm In his book Modernity and the Millennium, published by Columbia University Press in 1998, Professor Cole observes the Baha'i administration has increasingly come under the control of fundamentalists, "stressing scriptural literalism . . . theocracy, censorship, intellectual intolerance, and denying key democratic values (196)." Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Article on David Kelly in De Morgen, Sept. 6, 2003, by Maarten Rabaey https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/DeMorgen.htm Roger Kingdon versus Barney Leith's Account Mai Pederson (Al-Sadat) Arab Kuwaiti American Baha'i EVIDENCE grows... Dr. David Kelly & the Baha'i Faith -- Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience POLITICS To understand the uhj's playing to the NGO community, a further instance of its subtle involvement in politics, see its use of Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm cited in The Century of Light. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Hobsbawm.htm NITV in LA broadcasting pro-return-of-the-Shah propaganda into Iran https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/NITV.htm For further evidence of baha'i involvement in politics, see extensive manipulation of the United Nations https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/UNmenu.htm BAHAI TECHNIQUE "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ BACQUET NET GAMES Karen Bacquet: Net Games - Fallacies, Gambits, and Maneuvers in Baha'i Cyberspace Karen Bacquet: Net Games - Fallacies, Gambits, and Maneuvers in Baha'i Cyberspace Karen Bacquet: Net Games: Fallacies, Gambits, and Maneuvers in Baha'i Cyberspace https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/Netgames.html "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ BELIEFNET DIRECT LINK to Why I Left... Frederick Glaysher www.bahai-faith.com Eric Stetson www.bahai-faith.com Eric Stetson fglaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community Karen Bacquet, Cultic Studies Journal, American Family Foundation: "Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community" The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Reform Bahai Faith The Bahai Technique More than a dozen people over a decade comment on: The Bahai Technique The Bahai Technique -- Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience COLE & BACQUET: Professor Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan, "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community," Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (March, 2002):195-217: https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2002/fundbhfn.htm In his book Modernity and the Millennium, published by Columbia University Press in 1998, Professor Cole observes the Baha'i administration has increasingly come under the control of fundamentalists, "stressing scriptural literalism . . . theocracy, censorship, intellectual intolerance, and denying key democratic values (196)." Professor Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan, "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community," Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (March, 2002):195-217: https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2002/fundbhfn.htm -------------------------------------------------------- Karen Bacquet, "Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community." Published in American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal, Volume 18, 2001, pp.109-140: https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html -------------------------------------------------------- talk.religion.bahai on the Web: Free reading and posting, including the largest Usenet archive: https://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=talk.religion.bahai Roll Call of Victims, Roll Call of Honor https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/RollCall.htm FOR BELIEFNET: Professor Juan Cole, Religious Studies Review 2002: Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community -------------------------------------------------------- Karen Bacquet, "Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community." Published in American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal, Volume 18, 2001, pp.109-140: https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html -------------------------------------------------------- Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience -------------------------------------------------------------------------- See this article for an excellent introduction to the Bahai Wars: Professor Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan, "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community," Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (March, 2002):195-217: https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/2002/fundbhfn.htm Karen Bacquet, "Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community," American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal: https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Maneck Dear non-bahai observer, For further background on Susan Maneck, see uhj's reliance on injustice, oppression, and tyranny; Maneck's "get over it" > I.e., the injustice of the fundamentalist administration: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck9.htm Susan Maneck, Baha'i scholar: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck8.htm "In short, she has lied and made misleading statements about me in the past and this recent statement of hers is just another example of her lack of honesty." Steven Scholl https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Scholl4.htm "...she has behaved toward me in an academic setting with dishonesty and deceit in such a way as deprives her of the right to debate me publicly. She spied on me and lied about it. She betrayed confidences in such a way as to cause her academic colleagues to demand and get her resignation from a position she had held." Prof. Juan Cole https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Cole20.htm Juan Cole, February 13, 1999: "It is a very, very, very weird religion. And if anyone is reading Susan Maneck's absolutely bone-chilling screeds on the desirability of Heresy Trials and carefulness in Shunning, they are seeing what it is like at the core of the religion." "I really am sorry for them and her, since they seem sort of filled with hate and quite paranoid, yet say they are preaching love, unity and tolerance. Susan will say, 'may your abdomen be split by lightning and your guts fall out you filthy heretic whom I wish I could just have shunned and buried', and then she'll sign herself "warmest" and slander a university by adding it to her sig line. As if what she is about has anything at all to do with *universities*!" "Isn't it sort of suspicious that she shows up at AOL backbiting me so assiduously on a forum where I am not even present? ... Is the only way to stay a Baha'i to capitulate morally in this way?" Prof. Juan Cole https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Cole19.htm "As for Maneck's relationship to the Baha'i authorities, she has herself boasted to common friends of ours of corresponding with House members about how to 'deal with Cole', and she served as a spy on an academic editorial committee for counselor Ghadirian, passing over to him detailed reports on confidential discussions, one of which she accidentally sharedwith an editor. And now she wishes to make my revelation of this role itself a reason for which *I* should be thought delusional?" Prof. Juan Cole https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Cole74.htm Further details on Baha'i scholar Susan Maneck at https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm See her slandering other views as garbage: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck3.htm See her slandering other views as litter: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck7.htm See also messages related to her abuse of AOL : https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOL.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOLcensorship.htm Bahai institutions DRIVING people out - Maneck's "get over it" 9/17/03 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck9.htm HIKMAT Outside observers should be especially careful and alert to Hikmat & Taqiya, "wisdom" and dissimulation, key Baha'i concepts: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hikmatMENU.htm Wisdom and Dissimulation: The Use and Meaning of Hikmat in the Baha'i Writings and History https://bahai-library.org/articles/hikmat.html The Practice of Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahai Religions https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/notes/vol3/taqiya.htm An outside view of hikmat and taqiya https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hikmat2.htm Baha'i scholar Susan Maneck has a particularly notorious reputation for practicing hikmat https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm Steven Scholl regarding Susan Maneck, Baha'i scholar: "But this is laughable when one looks at Dr. Maneck's publishing career. She has penned a few Baha'i articles of marginal value published by internal Baha'i agencies. In short, she has one of the weakest publishing histories I have ever seen in academics and her academic profile is nearly nonexistent. Maneck has attempted (unsuccessfuly) to discredit the work of Juan Cole and now Karen with her Baha'i blather. Yet it is Juan and Karen who are publishing in refereed academic journals, and Karen has done this as a freelance writer rather than as a trained academic." "Susan, if you think you really have something to say, write it up and submit it to a non-Baha'i publisher and see if they will accept YOUR methodology and YOUR use of sources." https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Scholl4.htm https://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~saf/bahai/docs/hikmat.html HIKMAT -- EVIDENCE grows... Dr. David Kelly & the Baha'i Faith https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Kelly.htm Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Why I Don't Respond to bahai Fundamentalists among my Fellow Baha'is https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Why1.htm "Please remove my name and address from your mailing list." https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/nsa1996.htm "Recently, Dr. Maneck, A.K.A. LDRS LFST Shahid on America Online's Baha'i Faith Bulletin Board posted the following." What may be expected from such bahai community leaders on AOL may be judged from Ms. Maneck's past treatment of opinions other than her own: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm See her slandering other views as garbage: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck3.htm See her slandering other views as litter: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck7.htm See also messages related to her abuse of her AOL "position" : https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOL.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOLcensorship.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOLcensorship1.htm Continuing AOL Censorship by bahais March 2001 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOL2001.htm Hikmat & Taqiya: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm https://www.h-net.org/~bahai/notes/vol3/taqiya.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hikmat2.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hate.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Towfiq.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archive.htm RBCFAdmin@aol.com Impartial observers of this thread may find it useful to consider a few of Ms. Maneck's messages that reveal her frequent unethical approach to online discussion and her lack of scholarly principles: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm Her slandering other views as Garbage: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck3.htm Her slandering other views as Litter: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck7.htm See also her efforts to censor free speech on AOL: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOL.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOLcensorship.txt -- Frederick Glaysher www.fglaysher.com The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ https://homepages.go.com/~bahai19/ https://news.cis.dfn.de False Membership Statistics on Encyclopedia Britannica 1/11/2000 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/FalseStats.htm I request that AOL TOSGeneral cite both you and Susan Maneck for your continual slandering of my membership on the bahai message boards. My bahai id card appears on my website. The onus resides with the nsa, not slanders like yourself and Susan Maneck, to inform me should they ever change my bahai status, a change I've never requested. No document has ever been issued to the contrary by the nsa. Should any of the allegations made here by fundamentalists be true, the non-bahai observer might want to reflect carefully on how far the extremists in the administration have drifted from the Teachings of Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha. Further details at https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/nsa1996.htm Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience Bahai ID card at https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ >Subject: Re: Are you going to allow slander? >Date: 9/2/2001 4:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time >From: LDRS LFST Shahid >Message-id: <20010902040941.18783.00010528@mb-mv.aol.com > > > >> >>Are you going to allow slander by Susan Maneck and others >>of my membership in the bahai faith? > >Dear Fred, > >If you can produce a current document from the NSA that states you are indeed >a Baha'i in good standing I will not allow anymore posts questioning your >status within the community. I believe they have already issued a document to >the contrary. >LDRS LFST Shahid >AOL Lifestyles > > > > > > bahai - Terrorism & Online Stalking Some of the evidence may be found at https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hate.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/CHarassment.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/BahaiThreatsLawsuit.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/BahaiAttacksonme.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AOL.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ex.htm -- Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ This volunteer leader regularly abuses his position and uses it to silence and attack people with whom he and the more fundamentalist-minded among my fellow Bahais disagree. He is the problem and cannot be relied on to moderate fairly. The bahai community leader is harassing me and others and trying to suppress all knowledge and discussion about the lawsuits against the bahai faith recently filed in New Mexico and the many incidents of silencing and coercing individual members. Please ask him to desist. Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Fundamentalist ad hominem. No substance. Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ AOL's allowing the fundamentalists among our fellow bahais to run the messages boards is neither FUN nor ENTERTAINING.... Please stop the basic violation, year after year, of our very basic constitutional rights, both those of fellow Bahais, such as myself, and non-Bahais on AOL.... The bahai community leader is harassing me trying to suppress all knowledge and discussion about the major lawsuit against the bahai faith recently filed in New Mexico. Please ask him to desist. This volunteer leader regularly abuses his position and uses it to silence and attack people with whom he and the more fundamentalist-minded among my fellow Bahais disagree. Professor Juan Cole, of the University of Michigan, discusses related issues in his journal article "The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997": https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/1999/jssr/bhjssr.htm The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 37, No. 2 (June 1998): 234-248. It should be noted by the non-bahai observer, especially anyone involved with AOL, that the "community leader" regularly TOSes or removes links from people whose views he opposes but allows other fundamentalists to post links to fundamentalist sites and events.... A clear example of the way AOL is manipulated and freedom of speech and conscience are regularly DAMAGED by AOL's indulgence. Frederick Glaysher The Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Want to understand bahai fundamentalism? Read this message: https://groups.google.com/groups?selm=f0853486.0109141001.2fd2b8c%40posting.google.com&output=gplain See Karen Bacquet's article published in the American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal to understand what is really taking place now on AOL's message boards: Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community" may be found on her website: https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html Karen Bacquet in American Family Foundation's Cultic Studies Journal, Enemies Within: Conflict and Control in the Baha'i Community": https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html "AFF (American Family Foundation) is a nonprofit, tax-exempt research center and educational organization founded in 1979. AFF's mission is to study psychological manipulation and cultic groups, to educate the public and professionals, and to assist those who have been adversely affected by a cult-related experience. AFF consists of a professional staff and a growing network of more than 150 volunteer professionals in fields ranging from education, psychology, and religion to journalism, law enforcement, and business." Further details about AFF: https://www.csj.org/aff/aff_about.htm I believe, if you're serious about protecting the rights of AOL users of these message boards and interested in truly understanding what is taking place here in the bahai faith today, you should start with Karen Bacquet's article and Professor Juan Cole's "Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community," which has just been published in the Religious Studies Review 2002 alt.religion.bahai,talk.religion.bahai,soc.culture.israel,soc.culture.iranian,talk.religion.misc New Mexico LAWSUIT against bahai institutions for FRAUD & LIBEL 3/2/2001 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/NMLawsuit.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/NMLawsuitResponse.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/NMLawsuitAttorney.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/AmicusC.htm https://members.fortunecity.com/bahaicensorship Antinomies.... 1996 - 2000 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Antinomies.htm "Please remove my name and address from your mailing list." https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/nsa1996.htm Bahai in *Perfectly* Good Standing https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/BIGS.htm https://fglaysher.com/LettersAmD1989-1994.htm Professor Juan Cole, of the University of Michigan, discusses related issues in his journal article "The Baha'i Faith in America as Panopticon, 1963-1997": https://www-personal.umich.edu/~jrcole/bahai/1999/jssr/bhjssr.htm Dialogue: https://h-net2.msu.edu/~bahai/docs/vol2/dialog.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/archives/BahaiCensorship2003.zip dialogue: S U M M E R / F A L L 1 9 8 7 A Modest Proposal: Recommendations Toward the Revitalization of the American Baha'i Community dialogue: S U M M E R / F A L L 1 9 8 7 A Modest Proposal: Recommendations Toward the Revitalization of the American Baha'i Community LDRS LFST Jerry, LDRS LFST Mgr Notify AOL TOSUsenet TOSGeneral CAT TOSQuestions TOSGen1 Community Action Team Member Services Representative. Please call 1-800-827-6364 Keyword Notify AOL, Message Boards, and then Ask the Staff Dialogue Magazine: https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Scholl.htm https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Scholl2.htm https://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~bahai/docs/vol2/dialog.htm AOL has created Keyword: Notify AOL where you will find detailed instructions on how to report TOS violations including chat, Instant Messages, message boards, e-mail, web pages, screen names and profiles. Newsgroup violations may be reported to the screen name Newsmaster. TOSBoards1 SAVE https://members.fortunecity.com/bahaicensorship/ Combine TXT: Drop to dos: copy *.txt all.txt Windows XP to get to MS-DOS prompt follow the below steps. 1. Click Start 2. Click Run 3. Type "cmd" or "command" and press enter. bahai-library.org/articles/mashriq.html bahai-library.org/essays/mashriq.meanings.html bahai-library.org/unpubl.compilations/mashriq.comp.html ************************************************ ant.htm Once I've received your updated information, I'll add your name and email address to our Newsletter, for declared members only. https://www.reformbahai.org/Declare.htm Bahai regards, A Response to Moojan Momen's Takfir & Slanderous Vilification: "Marginality and apostasy in the Baha'i community." Religion. Volume 37, Issue 3, September 2007, Pages 187-209. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/apostates.htm "The Bahai Technique": https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm Shunning & Slander > Menu https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm Frederick Glaysher The Reform Bahai Faith 95 Theses - On Bahai Liberty - Articles - Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant www.ReformBahai.org Frederick Glaysher The Reform Bahai Press P. O. Box 81842 Rochester, MI 48308-1842 USA www.ReformBahai.org The Reform Bahai Faith 95 Theses - On Bahai Liberty - Articles - Abdu'l-Baha's Covenant www.ReformBahai.org A Response to Moojan Momen's Takfir & Slanderous Vilification 12/2007 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/apostates.htm https://fglaysher.com/reformbahai/Ruth_White.html Ruth White Collection, Library of Congress, 1930 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/RWhiteLibC.htm Ruth White, Excerpts, Bibliography https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ruth%20White.htm Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell - Certified Copy from the Library of Congress Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha. 1930. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/CAMitchell_Report.htm https://fglaysher.com/reformbahai/Ruth_White.html Ruth White, Excerpts, Bibliography https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ruth%20White.htm Mirza Ahmad Sohrab's Broken Silence: The Story of Today's Struggle for Religious Freedom. New York: Universal Publishing, 1942. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/SohrabEx.htm Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell - Certified Copy from the Library of Congress Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha. 1930. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/CAMitchell_Report.htm he Universal Principles of the Reform Bahai Faith is now available in Australia through a number of online booksellers. See Reform Bahai Press https://www.reformbahai.org/reform%20bahai%20press.htm Yahoo Bahai Censorship https://groups.yahoo.com/group/bahaicensorship/ Yahoo Reform Bahai https://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ See 2007 - Lawsuit by Wilmette NSA Against Other Denominations https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ Ruth White Collection, Library of Congress, 1930 https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/RWhiteLibC.htm Ruth White, Excerpts, Bibliography https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Ruth%20White.htm Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell - Certified Copy from the Library of Congress Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha. 1930. https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/CAMitchell_Report.htm Dear , Thank you for your interest in the Reform Bahai Faith and your telephone message last week. I am responding here to the email address you left. If you're unfamiliar with our website and Bahai denomination, please see the links below. Of the several Bahai denominations, we believe we are the only denomination that follows Abdu'l-Baha'is 1912 Covenant and not the spurious will and testament of 1921. We'd be happy to answer any questions you might have and hold informal meetings with people interested in the Reform Bahai Faith. Bahai regards, Frederick Glaysher The Reform Bahai Faith www.ReformBahai.org For a historical background to the Reform Bahai Faith: The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/ To understand the real history of the Bahai Cause in the Western world, it is necessary to read the works of Ruth White and Ahmad Sohrab. They are available on the Reform Bahai Faith website, under Early Reform Bahais, Reform Bahai Faith Bibliography Ruth White, Appendix to Abdul-Baha and the Promised Age, 1929. ("Is the Bahai Organization the Enemy of the Bahai Religion?") https://reformbahai.org/images/WhiteOEBR.pdf Ruth White Collection, Library of Congress, 1930 https://reformbahai.org/images/WhiteLCDocs.pdf Ruth White, Bahai Leads Out of the Labyrinth. Universal Publishing Company, 1944. 259 pages. (pages 257, 258, 259 restored) https://reformbahai.org/images/WhiteBLOL.pdf Ruth White. Abdul Baha's Questioned Will and Testament. Beverly Hills: White, 1946. https://reformbahai.org/images/WhiteABQWT.pdf Dr. C. (Charles) Ainsworth Mitchell - Certified Copy from the Library of Congress: Dr. C. Ainsworth Mitchell, Report on the Writing Shown on the Photographs of the Alleged Will of Abdu'l-Baha Selected Bibliography of works by Ahmad Sohrab: Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Broken Silence: The Story of Today's Struggle for Religious Freedom. New York: Universal Publishing, 1942. Entire Book PDF https://reformbahai.org/images/SohrabBrokenSilence.pdf Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. Abdul Baha's Grandson: Story of a Twentieth Century Excommunication. New York: Universal Publishing for The New History Foundation, 1943. Reprinted. H-Bahai: Lansing, Michigan, 2004. Abdu'l-Baha's Grandson Mirza Ahmad Sohrab. The Will and Testament of Abdul Baha, An Analysis. New York: Universal Publishing, 1944. https://reformbahai.org/images/SohrabWTAB.pdf See also McDaniel v. Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, 27 NYS 2d 525 - 1941 https://scholar.google.com/scholar_ca...dt=20000000002 Here's the real story from The Chicago Tribune about how hypocritical the Wilmette-Haifan Baha'is are, speaking out of two sides of their mouth, while trying to destroy other Bahai denominations: Religion News Service By IRA RIFKIN, 1997. "Critics chafe at Baha'i conservatism." "According to the critics, the National Spiritual Assembly (NSA), which oversees the American Baha'i movement, is dominated by a tight-knit group of authoritarian officials who keep the lid on free expression by threatening dissidents with excommunication and by manipulating the process by which NSA members are elected." https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/CChafe.htm The Chicago Tribune, May 18, 2009. "Baha'i rift: Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith" "[Haifan Baha'is] contend that...the Orthodox Baha'i Faith can't call themselves Baha'i or use one of its key symbols without violating trademark law.... ...the case could set a precedent for settling religious schisms, doctrinal disputes and claims to truth." https://articles.chicagotribune.com/2009-05-18/news/0905170216_1_orthodox-community-rift-jesus-and-muhammad The Chicago Tribune, November 23, 2010. "Judge: Baha'i believers can call themselves Baha'i." "...the judges criticized the ruling from more than four decades ago as wrongfully trying to resolve a question of religious authority...." https://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/judge-bahai-believers-can-call-themselves-bahai.html The Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2010. "Federal appeals court rules in favor of splinter Baha'i group." "Adherents of the Orthodox Baha'i Faith...believe the mainstream Baha'i Faith...has strayed from the religion's original teachings." "We're the true faith. That's what we would say," [lawyer Goldberg]. "That has to be decided in the hearts and minds of the Baha'i, not by a secular court order." https://archive.chicagobreakingnews.com/2010/11/federal-appeals-court-rules-in-favor-of-splinter-bahai-group.html Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London, UK https://reformbahai.org/Speakers_Corner_Hyde_Park_London_UK.html Some Answered Questions, by Abdul-Baha https://reformbahai.org/images/Abdul-Baha_Some_Answered_Questions.pdf The Promulgation of Universal Peace, 1921-1922 edition. https://reformbahai.org/images/The_promulgation_of_universal_peace.pdf