The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience

 

Baha'i Censorship & Soc.Religion.Bahai


Apparently, defunct as of October, 2010. See https://groups.google.com/group/soc.religion.bahai/topics?hl=en&lnk=rgh
It's not clear why the Haifans pulled the plug on soc.religion.bahai after more than a dozen years online. It's archives, however, especially the early years, suggests how fanatical Haifan Baha'is can be, which becomes all the clearer when compared to the archives for talk.religion.bahai from its creation in 1997 onward. https://groups.google.com/group/talk.religion.bahai/topics


See also: Voices of Conscience

Larry Rowe 2006 Extensive comments on slander and shunning

Nima Hazini
K. Paul Johnson
Michael McKenny
Dermod Ryder


Brief Quotations from many people regarding censorship on soc.religion.bahai 


2003

Beyond these few messages, I recommend searching Google's newsgroup server
for current and archived discussion:
https://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=talk.religion.bahai
 

Selected Messages for 2003


2002

Selected Messages for 2002


2001

Selected Messages for 2001 Prior to October

Selected Messages for 2001 Part 2 October through December


2000

Selected Messages for 2000

See also Selected Messages on Alison Marshall's "expulsion."


1999

Re: Bahai Fireside, CHRISTIAN response and rebuttal Dale Grider 8/6/99
Re: Letter of resignation Steve Marshall 7/26/99
Re: Letter of resignation pdodenhoff 7/25/99
Re: Letter of resignation pdodenhoff 7/26/99
Re: Letter of resignation Berekiah 7/26/99 & re Majnun
Re: Letter of resignation Steve Marshall 7/26/99
Help (from a new Bahai) 7/7/99
Re: Another Inquiring Mind pdodenhoff 6/29/99
Re: Another Inquiring Mind pdodenhoff 6/29/99
Re: Letter of resignation pdodenhoff 6/29/99
Re: Resignation Ron stephens 5/5/99
SRB censorship 3/26/99
Censored e-mail to srb 3/6/99
Re: Quote from Ruhiyyih Khanum censored by SRB Ron House 3/3/99
Re: Interesting Conversations... Robin Peters 2/24/99
Re: An apology to Fred Alison Marshall 2/10/99
Re: Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Freedom of Conscience Milissa Boyer Kafes 2/10/99
Scent of the Bahji Rose 1/24/99
BAHAI METHODS 1/4/99


1998

Re: Action Alert - Easy Reward from Allah(SWT), EnshaAllah S. Shambashi 12/18/98
O MUSLIM! Do your duty! Afshin Afrashteh12/17/98
Re: Why can't you....? Ruletherod12/9/98
Re: I would post on srb but they have been censoring me since May 1998 Pease 12/5/98
Re: Reply to moderator of soc.religion.bahai Soltani 12/9/98
Re: Reply to moderator of soc.religion.bahai Soltani 12/9/98
Re: REPOST - alt.religion.bahai - FAQ Soltani 12/4/98
censorship Tomljenovic 12/3/98
Warning: soc.religion.Bahai Censues and is Biased against Muslims Soltani 11/28/98
How Soc.Religion.Bahai Censures the truth about Bahai activities.... Soltani 11/28/98
A suggestion for a folder: Bahai Censorship Ruletherod 11/17/98
Re: fw Gibro28W Remember the function of this site. Albert Verbrugh, srb moderator 10/16/98
Soc.religion.bahai moderator Bill Hyman rejects the "neutral, technical" RFD Bill Hyman, srb moderator 10/14/98
Re: The Baha'i Technique Gibro28W 10/15/98
Re: The General Idea (is correct) Gibro28W 10/15/98
Re: Faith doesn't harbor big egos? What's to prevent it? Gibro28W 10/14/98
Remember the function of this site. Gibro28W 10/12/98
Re: Doubt (has different meanings to different people). Gibro28W 10/12/98
Re: soc.religion.bahai Signatures Chess Hazlett 10/7/98
Re: Fwd: Barthaman Re Cal and Burl's dismissal of opposing viewpoints LaAeterna 10/5/98
Fwd: Cal and Burl's dismissal of opposing viewpoints at Talisman Barthaman on Bahai dissenters - wounded souls 10/4/98
Re Moonies & Bahais/ [method of silencing opponents] 10/2/98 LaAeterna
Re: Unpopular voices getting equal time.... Barthaman 10/1/98
Moderator's Notice 9/14/98 Bill Hyman? Soc.religion.bahai bans all signature files and URLs
Re: the censorship that wasn't 9/12/98 Kent Johnson
Re: fw Ron House Re: 2nd ROUGH DRAFT - RFD - talk.religion.bahai 9/7/98 Kent Johnson
Re: Fran Baker page added to web site 9/4/98 Kent Johnson
Re: The Baha'i Technique 8/29/98 Kent Johnson
[bahai-faith] Another rejection by soc.religion.bahai 8/21/98 Ron House
Re: Why I returned... 8/21/98 Timothy Mulligan
Re: Why I left (expanded version) 8/17/98 Timothy Mulligan
A Baha'i Technique 7/30/98 FG
Re: censorship RobertNik 7/30/98
Re: censorship 7/29/98 RobertNik
SRB censored msg? 7/24/98 Bruce Burrill
little round with SRB moderators 7/16/98 Fran Baker
SRB censorship 7/14/98 Zutetflute
[bahai-faith] Bill Hyman's specious reasoning and excuses for censorship 6/27/98
Re: Freedom of Choice 6/26/98 YU ZIR
Re: soc.religion.bahai - RFD/CFV 6/24/98 Matthew Cromer
Re: Freedom of Choice 6/23/98 YU ZIR
Re: "Bahai Hate Mail" page added PRIVATE MSG 6/22/98 Milissa Boyer Kafes
adjectives and anger 6/15/98 Alison and Steve Marshall
Re: Where LIBERTY is LIMITED 6/11/98 Matthew Cromer
Re: Where LIBERTY is LIMITED 6/11/98 Matthew Cromer
Re: Where LIBERTY is LIMITED 6/11/98 Matthew Cromer
Bill Hyman on Bahai censorship6/9/98 Vows in August of 1997 to censor F. Glaysher's "future postings" from srb.
Re: "Investigation" of Withdrawals (was Leaving Faith) 6/8/98 S. Michele Smith
Re: "Investigation" of Withdrawals (was Leaving Faith) 6/8/98 Rick Boatright
Re: censorship6/8/98 Rick Boatright
Re: Ad hominem attacks? 6/8/98 Matthew Cromer
Re: [bahai-faith] 1200+ hits: on "Bahai Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience" in 1 month 6/8/98 Harold Shinsato
Re: Bahai "art"/hate mail #2 7/8/97 webmaster@iranvision.com
censored from s.r.b also on Sat, 6 Jun 1998 6/7/98 Bill Hyman
Censored from S.R.B 6 Jun 1998 6/7/98 Bill Hyman
Re: SRB Forgery of my signature file 6/5/98 M_Iman@my-dejanews.com
Re: SRB censored 5-25-98 6/2/98 Maryam Butson
FW: SRB censored 5-25-98 5/31/98 Bill Hyman censors my signature file
Re: [bahai-faith] SRB censored 5-25-98 5/27/98
Re: [bahai-faith] SRB censored 5-25-98 5/27/98
Re: New site: "The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience" 5/26/98
SRB censored #2: 5-11-98 5/19/98 (Regarding William Collins' "Religious Freedom of Conscience; Liberal/Conservative"
Re: Leaving Faith 5/18/98 S. Michele Smith
SRB censored: 5-11-98 5/17/98 Rick Boatright
SRB censored #3: 5-11-98 5/11/98 Teri Rhan
Re: Leaving Faith 5/11/98 Teri Rhan
Re: [bahai-faith] Leaving Faith (fwd) 5/8/98 George & Marlena
[bahai-faith] Fw: Defrring to "cultural mores" (fwd) 5/7/98 George & Marlena
[bahai faith] moderators vs censors 5/3/98 LaAeterna
Re: third RFD on talk.religion.bahai 1/5/98 Robin M Peters
Fw: 3rd RFD sent to David Lawrence 1/4/98 Robin Peters


1997

Catch-22 in Faith 12/22/97 hart@lycosemail.com
Re: SRB censored: 11-21-97 11/25/97 Notarius
SRB censored: 11-21-97 11/22/97
Re: Traffic on alt.religion.bahai versus 10/30/97 Ron House
Re: Traffic on alt.religion.bahai versus 10/29/97 Ron House
Re: MY ESPERANTO MASSAGES NEVER POSTED ? THIS IS CALLED 10/17/97 john markovitch
SRB Censored: 8-22-97 (Bern) 8/22/97
More Bahai censorship - moderators 8/20/97
SRB Censored: 8-14-97 8/14/97
SRB Censored: 8-13-97 8/13/97
Re censorship (from SRB) 8/12/97
Self-censorship: SRB 7-13-97 7/14/97 (A particularly blatant example of the way srb works.)
SRB Censored: 6-12-97 6/12/97
SRB Censored: 5-22-97 5/23/97
Re: SRB Censored: 3-31-97 Open Letter to UHJ 4/4/97
SRB Censored: 4-23-97: Boatright 4/23/97
I refuse to post on soc.religion.bahai 2/16/97 jgoldberg at megsinet.net


Since the the moderators of soc.religion.bahai banned any messages from me that contain my signature
file (May 25, 1998) pointing to this web site, I have been directly emailing every new poster to srb.
Several have emailed me back: srb posters express thanks


Prior to 1998, there were at least thirty to forty other messages posted to alt.religion.bahai, by people other than myself, stating that they believed they had been censored by srb, often with accompanying evidence. Since I've lost track of those messages among the massive 30,000+ postings, I'd appreciate it if people would forward me copies of them should anyone stumble upon them or have a copy.


For what Bahais call "hikmat" or wisdom or dissimulation, see Susan Maneck's :"Wisdom and Dissimulation: The Use and Meaning of Hikmat in the Baha'i Writings and History."

For a Muslim perspective on Bahai dissimulation, see Amir Butler on ""Taqaiya"

On H-Bahai: The Practice of Taqiyyah (Dissimulation) in the Babi and Bahai Religions by Sepehr Manuchehri

 


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