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Killing the righteous
Baha'i is the largest new monotheistic religion in the world, founded in Iran. Paradoxically, this is also where they are persecuted with a religious indignation so fierce, 7 members of Baha'i currently face execution if sentenced.
The Baha'i members are charged with something called mofsed fil arz (being corrupt on earth), along with "espionage for Israel”,
“insulting religious sanctities” and “propaganda against the system."
Genesis 18:25, above any other sentence written in the Bible or any religious text, expresses the fundamental principle of theism: God must be just. The principle can also be transferred to general ethics and to any form of governance, and to leadership in general: If you exercise authority, you must be just.
These are the beliefs of Baha'i:
Women and men are equal.
- All prejudice—racial, religious, national, or economic—is destructive and must be overcome.
- We must investigate truth for ourselves, without preconceptions.
- Science and religion are in harmony.
- Our economic problems are linked to spiritual problems.
- The family and its unity are very important.
- There is one God.
- All major religions come from God.
- World peace is the crying need of our time.
Even Iranians and clerics shout: Injustice
It would be difficult to find a more encouraging, modernized and amiable religous doctrine to accuse of apostasy and treasonous acts.
The fact that the Baha's religion originates in Iran is ample proof that the militant Shiism of Iran does not discriminate - they hate everyone and persecute anyone, guilty or innocent.
In that regard the growing numbers of critics from its own ranks are absolutely right:
The Shia Muslim Ayatollahs around the Middle East are right the Iranian regime damages them all, equating the Islamic ideals with a mundane struggle for political perseverence by any means, even atrocity.
Montazeri is right that the Iranian government is "unfit to rule".
Mohsen Rezaie is right that they are leading Iran towards an inevitable "collapse".
The fact that the Baha's religion originates in Iran is ample proof that the militant Shiism of Iran does not discriminate - they hate everyone and persecute anyone, guilty or innocent.
In that regard the growing numbers of critics from its own ranks are absolutely right:
The Shia Muslim Ayatollahs around the Middle East are right the Iranian regime damages them all, equating the Islamic ideals with a mundane struggle for political perseverence by any means, even atrocity.
Montazeri is right that the Iranian government is "unfit to rule".
Mohsen Rezaie is right that they are leading Iran towards an inevitable "collapse".
Baha's to see a surge of accolytes?
One of the side-effects of the contested June 12 election, the post-election protests and the barbaric clamp-down by the ruling regime is that every aspect of Iranian politics and lifestyle is becoming subject massive exposure of Iran in the world press.
Hopefully this will happen to the Baha'i religion as well.
Not only is it of universal humanitarian concern to prevent executions of prisoners of conscience, but the Baha'i religion very well summarizes some of the fundamental ideals of the "Green Revolution", as the West has dubbed it:
Equality of women, respect of all religious beliefs, intellectual and scientific integrity, the unity of the family, eradication of poverty, a universal quest for world peace.
These are things you do not have to be religious to subscribe to. They are tenets that unify people all over the world.
It is not accidental or coincedental that the Iranian regime is persecuting Baha'i: The seven accused represents the conscience of Iran, a conscience the regime is rapidly alienating itself from in order to protect their own power and positions.
Hopefully this will happen to the Baha'i religion as well.
Not only is it of universal humanitarian concern to prevent executions of prisoners of conscience, but the Baha'i religion very well summarizes some of the fundamental ideals of the "Green Revolution", as the West has dubbed it:
Equality of women, respect of all religious beliefs, intellectual and scientific integrity, the unity of the family, eradication of poverty, a universal quest for world peace.
These are things you do not have to be religious to subscribe to. They are tenets that unify people all over the world.
It is not accidental or coincedental that the Iranian regime is persecuting Baha'i: The seven accused represents the conscience of Iran, a conscience the regime is rapidly alienating itself from in order to protect their own power and positions.
The secret doctrine of Tzaddikim
Judaism contains a widely overlooked, but very interesting doctrine of the "righteous" or tzaddikim.
It is the belief that saintly people who are unaware of their own excellent qualities and go largely unnoticed by surrounding society protects entire cities and cultures from the punishment of God, which will befall men if it was not for the case of these extraordinary individuals.
These tzaddikim do not know they are appointed guardians, and in fact there are those who claim that if one was to become aware of it, one would lose the innocence and as such be disqualified: You cannot claim to be tzadikkim without disproving it.
It is a mystical belief rooted in a conversation between Abraham (Ibrahim) and God in Genesis, just before the legendary destruction of the Soddom and Gomorrh. Abraham plea bargained with God not to destroy the cities - his nephew Lot lived in Soddom - saying
Abraham managed to get God to accept that if the city contained as little as 10 righteous, Tzaddikim, God would waive his right to collective punishment.
According to the legend God did not find 10, but saved whoever were worthy of being saved, which happened to be Lot and his family.
It is the belief that saintly people who are unaware of their own excellent qualities and go largely unnoticed by surrounding society protects entire cities and cultures from the punishment of God, which will befall men if it was not for the case of these extraordinary individuals.
These tzaddikim do not know they are appointed guardians, and in fact there are those who claim that if one was to become aware of it, one would lose the innocence and as such be disqualified: You cannot claim to be tzadikkim without disproving it.
It is a mystical belief rooted in a conversation between Abraham (Ibrahim) and God in Genesis, just before the legendary destruction of the Soddom and Gomorrh. Abraham plea bargained with God not to destroy the cities - his nephew Lot lived in Soddom - saying
Abraham managed to get God to accept that if the city contained as little as 10 righteous, Tzaddikim, God would waive his right to collective punishment.
According to the legend God did not find 10, but saved whoever were worthy of being saved, which happened to be Lot and his family.
The war against the Rightous
It is a poetic point, not a rationalistic one, but what the Iranian government has embarked on resembles a war against the Rightous.
Having painted their own party into a corner the rulers now appear to deliberately and systematically uprooting the just, attempting to break them through terror and torture, or to corrupt them with money, promises of lenience, to make them rat on others or make false confessions for the state run propaganda channels.
People are arrested, and detainees disappear. Some are reported dead weeks or months later, others are executed to set an example, and yet others released to tell their horrifying tales of torture and rape to the public in order to frighten the population into submission.
Theoretically, if there is but the slightest truth to the doctrine of the Righteous - and even rationally we must accept that decent, conscientious and moral citizens everywhere form the backbone of civil society - the Iranian government is systematically attempting to remove the raison d'etre for the entire nation of Iran, not just the republic.
It will neither be republic nor Islamic, once they are done with their injustice; it may not even be Iran.
Having painted their own party into a corner the rulers now appear to deliberately and systematically uprooting the just, attempting to break them through terror and torture, or to corrupt them with money, promises of lenience, to make them rat on others or make false confessions for the state run propaganda channels.
People are arrested, and detainees disappear. Some are reported dead weeks or months later, others are executed to set an example, and yet others released to tell their horrifying tales of torture and rape to the public in order to frighten the population into submission.
Theoretically, if there is but the slightest truth to the doctrine of the Righteous - and even rationally we must accept that decent, conscientious and moral citizens everywhere form the backbone of civil society - the Iranian government is systematically attempting to remove the raison d'etre for the entire nation of Iran, not just the republic.
It will neither be republic nor Islamic, once they are done with their injustice; it may not even be Iran.
Without justice, nations will fall
Genesis 18:25, above any other sentence written in the Bible or any
religious text, expresses the fundamental principle of theism: God must
be just.
The principle can also be transferred to general ethics and to any form of governance, and to leadership in general: If you exercise authority, you must be just.
Nobody - Christian or Muslim, believer or atheist - can completely reject or detach themselves from this principle, and most people regardless of religion or culture believes in justice and associate injustice with sanction.
Some see this need or desire for justice as a social principle, while others detect in it a metaphysical principle in the universe.
The common point is that without justice nations must fall, and history also teaches us that even if it may take some time, it will also happen.
The Koran has a passage echoing the same sentiment, one which is often interpreted as:
Perhaps, if the Judaic doctrine is true, some people are keepers of the order of society, secretly, without knowing it and without being noticed by the world. And maybe, if these lights are snuffed out, the world will fall into perpetual darkness.
The more I think of it, the more probable it sounds.
The principle can also be transferred to general ethics and to any form of governance, and to leadership in general: If you exercise authority, you must be just.
Nobody - Christian or Muslim, believer or atheist - can completely reject or detach themselves from this principle, and most people regardless of religion or culture believes in justice and associate injustice with sanction.
Some see this need or desire for justice as a social principle, while others detect in it a metaphysical principle in the universe.
The common point is that without justice nations must fall, and history also teaches us that even if it may take some time, it will also happen.
The Koran has a passage echoing the same sentiment, one which is often interpreted as:
Whosoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has killed the whole world. Whosoever saves an innocent, it is as if he had saved the whole world.
Saving the life of the innocent prisoners in Iran is a matter of conscience, a question of protecting the world from being taken over by wicked men. Whether or not God exists, it is also be a question of preventing the destruction of the world - we know that evil men will bring destruction to all around them and even to themselves.Perhaps, if the Judaic doctrine is true, some people are keepers of the order of society, secretly, without knowing it and without being noticed by the world. And maybe, if these lights are snuffed out, the world will fall into perpetual darkness.
The more I think of it, the more probable it sounds.
