Branded an Enemy

Branded an Enemy

By John Taylor; 2007 Apr 24

The latest news (not to do directly with Baha'i) coming out of Iran is very telling. A Supreme Court ruling just overturned a lower court conviction of some street thugs who killed several people on suspicion of immorality. For example, one man was killed for the sin of walking in public with his wife. For shame! But at least his avenger was exonerated by the highest court in the land. In effect, the law now says that you do not even have to be guilty of the Mullocracy's flimsy definition of immorality, you just have to be suspected of being such. Since anybody can be suspected of anything, it is now legal, in effect, to murder anybody you please and then later claim they were suspect of turpitude. How confident the Mullocracy must be in their popularity! Correct me if I am wrong, but are they not thumbing their nose at the firestorm? Now that they have figured out how to subvert a constitutional democracy with the same aplomb that they subverted the Shahs, they think they can now throw out the law books without even a pretense of legality. Are they as impervious as they think they are?

I was shaken by this news item and in my daily review of my life (Baha'is must take themselves into account before God on a regular basis) I lately have felt moved to look into the persecution of the Baha'is in Iran and try to feature their plight on this blog more than in the past.

After an elementary Google search, I came across this video, from a 1983 broadcast of the American television news program, 20/20. Check it out:

<http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2128317632629440784&hl=en>

It is depressing to think that is nigh on twenty five years since that expose was broadcast and today the same benighted cabal of fanatics are still in power, still plotting, killing and spreading lies and terror around the world. As the introductory material says, the Ayatollah came back to Iran with the express intention of wiping out the Baha'is completely from its native soil, and his successors are still just as intent on carrying that out that plan. Depressing to think that they do what is portrayed in this broadcast, scrawl in black letters on the legs and arms of the stricken bodies of Baha'i martyrs phrases like, "Enemy to Islam."

Here is proof that they are complete strangers to independent thought.

If they paused to think, the question would arise: who is the real enemy of Islam? Is it a non-violent Baha'i or a bloodthirsty bigot who desecrates human bodies in order to make his points? His Holiness Muhammad is surely ashamed of these prigs and the blot to His name that they constitute. It is infuriating that they get away with this. If the person next to you drops dead and you carry the body across the room, you are liable to be charged with desecrating a human body, but in this regime killing Baha'is and desecrating their bodies catapulted at least one Mullah to the highest office in the land, the presidency of Iran.

Then there are the interviews in this broadcast with the Mullah representing Iran at the United Nations. The reporter asks if it is true that the family members of Baha'i martyrs were forced to pay for the bullets. The thug's smug answer is that if Baha'is had to pay, then probably so do the families of all the other victims of this regime. He does not even trouble himself to think about checking his facts. When you manufacture your own reality for yourself what need is there to check into anything outside your own head? Oh, where is Stephen Colbert when you need him? What fun it would be if he gave the interview!

Mullah: Nobody is being killed in Iran because of religion. The Baha'i Faith is not a religion. It is a political movement with ties to Zionism. They are agents of Israel and are being shot for spying on Iran.

Colbert: That makes it alright then. I am so relieved. When your head of state and most of your parliament go around wearing turbans and clerical garb, it is a relief to know that the Baha'is at least are not religious. You should definitely kill them before people start thinking that political people should act non-violently. And without violence and bloodshed how would politics ever compete with wars and natural disasters for the world's attention? Let me tell you that I really admire what you are doing, for religion, for politics, for truth. By the way, what evidence do you have that Baha'is are spies?

Mullah: They have buildings and land in Israel. They donate money for their upkeep.

Colbert: Yeah, right. And when Muslims give money for the upkeep of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem the difference is that...

Mullah: That is a holy place. The places Muslims support are holy but the Baha'i places are not holy, they are political. There is a difference between a holy spot and a cesspool of Zionist plots.

Colbert: Exactly. If you are going to kill somebody for their religion, you should at least do it for a good reason. And if you have any doubts, why not write it all over their cold, dead bodies? But never kill them for religious reasons. That would be wrong. You should just kill them for not being a religion. And for giving money for their suspicious "non-holy place" upkeep. You have got be fair and impartial and I think we have shown here who is the pot calling whom black. Am I right or am I right?