tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post8197123452045147797..comments2023-09-25T12:44:07.828-07:00Comments on Baha'i Faith - Its origin and its role: Rockefeller Foundation and The Baha’i FaithNaser Emtesalihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11174192365767859976noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-5585031154627712962022-02-27T23:17:33.194-08:002022-02-27T23:17:33.194-08:00Farzam Arbab is Representative, The Rockefeller Fo...Farzam Arbab is Representative, The Rockefeller Foundation, Colombia.<br /><br />https://www.jstor.org/stable/4191058Naser Emtesalihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11174192365767859976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6510761613406111002.post-21666156062084893712013-02-12T01:07:18.052-08:002013-02-12T01:07:18.052-08:00Farzam Arbab does have a Ph.D. in economics, but h...Farzam Arbab does have a Ph.D. in economics, but he never did anything professionally with that degree of note. He never bothered even to learn Arabic or Persian. He did pioneer in Latin America, but lots of people have pioneered under difficult conditions. Baha'i friends of mine who had anything to do with him found him arrogant and highly anti-intellectual. He has advocated 'writing off' the Baha'i intellectuals of the West. When he was elected to the house of justice in 1993, the first thing he did was to throw a tantrum over the Baha'i Encyclopedia, a huge project involving hundreds of Baha'i thinkers throughout the world. He pronounced its draft a piece of 'secular humanism' and 'materialism' (borrowing code words from the Christian Fundamentalists). He insisted it all be rewritten in fundamentalist fashion, and went about lambasting everyone who had been involved in its production. These included many devoted Baha'i Ph.D.'s in history, philosophy, and other fields. Arbab set himself above all of them, attacked them, sullied their reputations, made all their work useless, and the rest of the House members let him do it because he cared so much and they didn't really<br /><br />So I haven't had a good experience with nice humble Dr. Arbab. As far as I can see, he's arranged for a large wood-panelled office for himself in Israel, a country with a per capita income of $17,000 a year, with a good view of Haifa's beautiful bay, and is spending $200 million of Baha’i money on marble facades for the buildings in which he works. <br /><br />What is his salary, by the way? How is that chauffeured Mercedes paid for? And how did he get appointed to the ITC, from which he was elected to the House, in the first place? Whose client was he? To whom does he owe favors? I wouldn't have any problem with all this if he hadn't demonstrated himself a tinpot tyrant and gone about ruining the lives of my friends by slandering them, forcing several of them out of the faith with threats of shunning, for daring complain about how he treated the Encyclopedia issue. <br /><br />Juan ColeJuan Colenoreply@blogger.com