Yek akhondeh zalem has passed away at the age of 83, 1000s more still remaining! One particularly reviled target was Iran’s Baha’i community. Adherents of the Baha’i faith, which originated in Iran in the 19th century, consider all world religions to be divinely inspired. But since their prophet’s revelations postdate Muhammad’s, Shiite clerics consider the Baha’i heretical and undeserving of even the second-class status granted to Christians, Jews and other “people of the book” under Shariah law. In the years immediately following the revolution, hundreds of Baha’i were detained, tortured and executed. “Since the early 1980s agents of the Iranian government have frequently acted to inflict torture on Baha’is,” according to a 2008 report issued by the New Haven, Conn.-based Iran Human Rights Documentation Center. “Evidence of state-sanctioned torture against Baha’is is widespread and systematic.” Liability for these crimes, according to the center, “may fall on members of the Revolutionary Council who, since 1979, have devised and implemented a plan of attack on the Baha’is. Its members include leading clerics such as Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani.” Baha’is are to this day barred from seeking higher education in Iran and subject to arbitrary arrest. Mahdavi-Kani more recently developed a reputation inside the country as one of the regime’s more cracked characters. In a March speech, for example, he claimed that Albert Einstein had converted to Shiite Islam and that the Jewish physicist’s discovery of relativity was inspired by the Prophet Muhammad’s ascension to heaven. Loony as he might have become, for the Tehran regime’s thousands of victims, Ayatollah Mahdavi-Kani’s legacy is no laughing matter.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:57:16 +0000
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