Iran Says Baha'i University Illegal

An interesting and revealing look at Muslim tolerance toward Muslims.  As long as Muslims continue to deal with each other in such an intolerant and hateful manner, they will have less energy to impose Islam on the West.  

FROM PAYVAND.COM:


06/05/11     
Iran Says Baha'i University Illegal
Source: Radio Zamaneh

BIHE The Baha'i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran has been declared an "illegal" organization by the Ministry of Science and Technology.

ISNA cites the ministry's announcement that "the online university BIHE has not received any ministry permits for operation, and all its activities are illegal."

The ministry also maintained that all diplomas and degrees issued by this institution "lack legal validity."

Iranian security forces had previously shut down science and research facilities at the Baha'i Open University in Tehran and arrested a number of its staff in several cities.

The international Baha'i community reports that at least 30 Baha'is were arrested on May 22 in Tehran, Karaj, Esfahan and Shiraz in.

Iran's Baha'i community established the Baha'i Open University in 1987 to offer higher education to Baha'is, who face discrimination under the Islamic Republic system.

While Baha'ism was founded in Iran and Baha'is form the largest religious minority there, the government does not recognize it as a legitimate religion. Baha'is are denied access to higher education and discriminated against in all walks of life.

In March, a number of Iranian Baha'is were arrested in Bam, Kerman and Tehran, charged with "promoting their projects under the guise of educational and cultural programs in daycares."

Seven Baha'i community leaders, who had already been incarcerated for two years, were recently sentenced to 20 years in prison on charges of espionage.

Villagers attack homes of Baha'is in Egypt

More insane, hysterical Muslim attacks on Baha'i. Is there no issue that Muslims can resolve without endless violence and enmity?

FROM GOOGLE.COM:

Groups: Villagers attack homes of Baha'is in Egypt
By MAGGIE MICHAEL – 16 hours ago

CAIRO (AP) — Dozens of Muslim villagers have attacked the homes of members of the minority Baha'i religion in southern Egypt, hurling firebombs and denouncing them as "enemies of God," human rights groups said Thursday.
The attacks began Saturday after a prominent Egyptian media commentator denounced a Baha'i activist in a television appearance as an "apostate" and called for her to be killed.

The Baha'i religion was founded in the 1860s by a Persian nobleman, Baha'u'llah, whom the faithful regard as the most recent in a line of prophets that included Buddha, Abraham, Jesus and Muhammad. Muslims reject the faith because they believe Muhammad was God's final prophet, and Baha'is have been persecuted in the Middle East.

In Egypt, where the majority of the country's nearly 80 million people are Sunni Muslim, the Baha'i faith is not recognized as an official religion. The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt's dominant religious authority, has also declared it a "sacrilegious dogma."
After five days of violence, calm returned Wednesday to the village of Shouraniya, located about 215 miles south of Cairo. No one was injured in the attacks.
The village's 15 Baha'i residents were forced to leave, and police have prevented them from returning, rights groups said.
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