This will be uncomfortable for many Bahá’ís... especially those with truly good hearts. But neutrality and silence in the face of injustice support tyranny. Of all people, Bahá’ís should know this.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o
In what kind of world can one preach justice and claim to stand for truth, while remaining silent about the slaughter of children just a few miles away? Shame on those who defend such hypocrisy.
There are many kind-hearted Bahá’ís who feel a deep unease about this... and they should. That discomfort is not weakness. It is your conscience. It is reason, trying to speak the truth.
You cannot, on one hand, denounce the atrocities in Iran, and on the other, turn away from genocide unfolding right before your eyes. That contradiction is not neutrality. It is hypocrisy. And those who numb the hearts of the kind and the compassionate should be ashamed.
Singing 'Kumbaya' in circles, quoting scripture, and exchanging emails from within ivory towers, while children are being butchered outside your door , is this what truth looks like?
If you claim to belong to the 'Holy Land', then the suffering in that land is your problem too. Just as you speak out for justice in Iran, in Ukraine, or anywhere else , you must speak out here as well. Anything less is complicity.
Bahá’ís are fortunate, most of the world barely knows who they are. They live safely in a comfortable bubble, untouched by scrutiny. But never before has the world been so united in its moral outrage and those who speak of 'unity' day and night are choosing, willfully, to remain outside of it.
Go test it for yourself. I dare you to bring up this issue with your Local Spiritual Assembly. Watch the reactions. Witness the hypocrisy.
Here is a heroine , one of your own, who stood up for justice. And what became of her? She was cast out. Banished from your circle. Thrown out of the very community she tried to hold accountable.....