Baha'i teen guilty of Cyber Sex Crimes

"The boy's lawyer, Annie O'Neill, told the court her client knew his actions were wrong based on his Baha'i faith, but did not know it was illegal."


http://au.news.yahoo.com/queensland/a/-/latest/9452464/teenager-didnt-know-porn-post-illegal/

A 16-year-old Perth boy who encouraged girls to perform sex acts on a webcam then posted them on Facebook did not know it was illegal, his lawyer says.

The teenager was due to be sentenced in the Perth Children's Court on Monday but Judge Denis Reynolds adjourned the matter to consider whether or not to send the boy into detention for his crime.

The boy, who cannot be identified because of his age, pleaded guilty to several child exploitation offences committed between October 17, 2010, and January 24, 2011.

The charges include encouraging a child over the age of 13 and under the age of 16 to do an indecent act, attempting to procure a child aged over 13 and under 16 to do an indecent act, and distributing child exploitation material, namely a digital file.

The court heard on Monday that the boy created a Facebook account in the name of a known bully and used the account to threaten the girls into exposing themselves and performing sex acts on a webcam, which he then posted on Facebook for their friends to see.

The boy's lawyer, Annie O'Neill, told the court her client knew his actions were wrong based on his Baha'i faith, but did not know it was illegal.

Ms O'Neill said it was "horrifying" how easy it was for young people to gain access to pornographic material online at a time when they were just beginning to explore their sexuality.

"My client is still very young indeed," she said.

Ms O'Neill said her client took "full responsibility" for his actions and was remorseful, especially because he had been bullied in the past and knew what it felt like.

He also had the support of his Iranian migrant parents, who were ashamed and embarrassed by their son's behaviour and took immediate steps to ground him and ban him from using the computer, Ms O'Neill said.

The boy's mother wept in court while he sat quietly with his head down during proceedings.

Judge Reynolds said the matter needed "careful consideration" and adjourned the matter to May 27.

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http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/teenager-didnt-know-porn-post-illegal-20110516-1epih.html

Australian and UK Court Judgements regarding the crimes committed by Baha'is in Australia and UK

Posted by Wahid Azal on TRB

THE LOCAL SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHA'IS OF PARRAMATTA LTD & ANOR v Babak HAGHIGHAT
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/nsw/NSWCA/2004/21.html

Yazarloo v Assadi
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/cases/wa/WASCA/2003/326.html

The Baha'i Sectarianism at work in a 2008 UK High Court case
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2008/2910.html

A UK HR Tribunal in 2006 found the Baha'i persecution claims in Iran to be exaggerated
http://groups.google.com/group/talk.religion.bahai/browse_thread/thread/ce6641fe2329679d#

Coming in 2012: The Book of the Point of Kaf (kitab nuqtat'ul-kaf) of Hajj Mirza Jani Kashani translated by N. Wahid Azal

From Primordial Traditions publishers Ltd. in 2012, Trans. with Intro. by N. Wahid Azal

Hajji Mirza Jani Kashani's BOOK OF THE POINT OF KAF (kitab nuqtat'ul-kaf)

Book Description :
Since E.G. Browne’s edition and publication of the Persian text of Hájjí Mírzá Jání Káshání’s (d. 1852) Kitáb Nuqṭat’ul-Káf in 1910 from two manuscripts in the Bibliothèque nationale of Paris, this historical narrative of early Bábism has generated endless controversy amongst religious sectarians and academic historians alike. Because it contradicted their own narratives in several significant places, the Bahá’í patriarch ‘Abbás Effendí ‘Abdu’l- Bahá’ (d. 1921) angrily asserted it to be an “Azali forgey” when on closer examination many of its idiosyncrasies even contradict the official doctrinal positions of the Bayánís (Azalí Bábís) themselves. The investigation of two earlier manuscripts at Princeton University during the last decade, and ones whose origins are located in a timeline closer to the author’s own death in 1852, finally vindicated Browne’s views regarding this text – as well as those of the pre-revolutionary Iranian historian Muḥíṭ Ṭabátabá’í – thereby once and for all discrediting the views of the Bahá’í authorities themselves and their century long campaign to dismiss and smear the authorship as well as the contents of this work.

Rather than being a history of a modern critical genre, the Book of the Point of Káf is instead a theophanological hiero-history reflecting the situation of early Bábism until 1852. A history of its founder, the Báb (d. 1850), and the first eight years of the Bábí movement in mid 19th century Iran, here we find actors within an Iranian Islamic Shi’ite gnostic dramaturgical theatre of unparalleled scope enacting a Grand Gnostic Resurrection and its Apocalypse much like the Ismá’ilí one at Alamút in the mid twelfth century CE. Here are met the two founders of the Shaykhí school, the Báb himself, his Letters of the Living and the movement’s successor Ṣubḥ-i-Azal, among others.

The Book of the Point of Káf begins with a long introductory, theological chapter detailing the author’s own metaphysical and Shi’ite gnostic points of departure wherein copious Shi’ite traditions (akhbár) are quoted and commented upon. E.G. Browne’s 1910 English introduction is reproduced in full and the translator’s own introduction brings us up to speed on the scholarship to the contemporary period. Twenty-two chapters in full plus a final conclusion, the English translation of this work will certainly challenge perceptions and change overall views regarding Bábism and Bahá’ism in the West forever - and, no doubt, produce even further controversies.

Viet Nam : Baha'i Community told to support national unity

BINH THUAN — Baha'i followers have been told they should better mobilise their community to maintain the nation's great unity and their solidarity with other religions.

The request was made by Duong Van Kha, representative of the Government's Committee for Religious Affairs, at the 4th national congress for the 2011-12 term of the Baha'i Community of Viet Nam which wrapped up yesterday in Phan Thiet city of the central Binh Thuan Province.

Delivering his speech at the event, Kha said the Vietnamese State had always respected the rights of its citizens to freedom of belief and religion and ensured that these rights were exercised in line with laws in Viet Nam.

The community should co-operate with local authorities to fight and prevent impostors who made use of the Baha'i faith to act against the law and the Chapter adopted by the Baha'i community, Kha said.

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Wahid Azal's "Ridvan" Message to the Universal House of Justice

19 Terms and Conditions for the Unconditional Surrender of the Haifan Baha'i cult

Now that the Baha’i cult has been thoroughly weakened, cut to minute size and is therefore hemorrhaging to an assured and well-deserved (and long overdue) death, I am hereby making the following offer to you Haifan Baha’is to unconditionally surrender, walk away, and save whatever you have left of your personal lives. I urge you to seriously consider this offer because if you don't, whatever else shall unfold will be on your own heads personally. Now that this demand has been spelled out, here are the 19 terms for your unconditional surrender:

1) The immediate dissolution of the ITC (international teaching center), the written and unequivocal dismissal of all haifan Baha’i continental board of councilor members and their underlings (Auxiliary board members, etc), to be followed by the immediate resignation without equivocation of all 9 members of the bogus and illegal universal house of justice based in Haifa, Israel;

2) The immediate and unequivocal dissolution of the entire infrastructure of the haifan Baha’i administration and bureaucracy globally - in every capacity and function - and the dismissal/dissolution of every national spiritual assembly, regional council and local assembly tied to your specific organization on the planet; as well as the immediate and unequivocal suspension of all activities under the name and rubric of the haifan Baha’i organization;

3) The immediate and unequivocal dissolution and suspension of all Ruhi Institutes globally;

4) The immediate and unequivocal relinquishment and full disclosure in writing of all assets, chattels, investments, funds, stocks, bonds, monies and otherwise belonging to the haifan Baha’i organization in Israel, North America, the United Arab Emirates, Europe and throughout the rest of the world; whether immediately tied or tangentially;

5) The immediate and unequivocal disclosure in writing of all subsidies and all monies and perquisites received by your organization since 1910 - in any capacity whatsoever - by any individual(s), entities or groups, governments or otherwise, not immediately tied to your organization, and specifically from the state of Israel since 1948;

6) The immediate financial and documentary auditing of your entire organization on all continents, beginning with the Baha’i world centre in Haifa, Palestine;

7) The immediate and unequivocal surrender of all legal and official documentation as well as letters and correspondences of your organization from the dates of 1871 to present;

8) The immediate and unequivocal surrender of all files and archives kept in any policing or surveillance capacities by the haifan Baha’i organization whatsoever upon individuals, whether these be files regarding rank-and-file members of the haifan Baha’i cult or those put out by it as well as those not;

9) The immediate and unequivocal surrender in writing of the full names, addresses, duties and capacities of all those serving under your Internet Committee based in the United States and spread out throughout the globe as well as the full unequivocal disclosure of the date of its establishment and any/all outside aid obtained;

10) The immediate and unequivocal surrender of the entirety of the archives of all texts and source documents (as well as artefacts) of a specifically scriptural and historical nature to a panel consisting of members of the Bayani community, the Reform Baha'i movement, the Orthodox Baha'i Communities - 1) Marangella and 2) Soghomonian -, the Baha'is Under the Provisions of the Covenant, ex-Baha'i academics of a reputable nature such as Denis Maceoin as well as those such as Margrit Warburg etc, and any others determined in consensus by the Panel;

11) The immediate and unequivocal disclosure of the facts regarding the fate of the National Spiritual Assembly of Iran circa 1979 and a complete explanation with documentation as to the reasons for the conspicuous silence of the so-called universal house of justice in world fora afterwards regarding the fate of this body;

12) The immediate and unequivocal release and publication of the Will and Testament of Shoghi Effendi to the worldwide Baha'i community;

13) The immediate and unequivocal and unhindered and unimpeded return of all documents, texts, scriptures, histories, papers and effects in your possession belonging to one Mirza Yahya Nuri Subh-i-Azal, which were illegally and fraudulently obtained by one Mirza Husayn 'Ali Nuri Baha'u'llah in Baghdad and Edirne in the 1860s, to the Bayani community;

14) The immediate and unequivocal return of all the properties of Bahji to its rightful owners, namely, the descendents of Mirza Muhammad 'Ali ibn al-Baha' and Mirza Badi'ullah ibn al-Baha';

15) The case one Hozhabr Yazdani (NOW DEAD) to be thoroughly examined for his execution of state sanctioned and protected criminal activities on behalf of your organization in Iran from the years 1953-1979;

16) The immediate and unequivocal disclosure in full regarding the criminal hawala networks operated by members of the haifan Baha’i organization throughout Asia, the Middle East, South America, Europe, North America and elsewhere, and an explanation with documentation regarding the nature of such activities and especially the names, addresses and capacities of those persons involved with these criminal hawala networks;

17) The immediate and unequivocal disclosure of all documents and papers regarding the unexplained murder of one Dan Jordan in New York City in 1982 as well as the immediate and unequivocal disclosure of all documents and papers regarding the suspicious murder of one Hedi Ma'ani in New Zealand;

18) The immediate arrest and criminal prosecution of misters Peter Khan, Alan Waters, Stephan Hall, Manijeh Rayhani, Robert C Henderson, et al., including their various staff, helpers and agents;

19) The immediate opening of the fake and disputed shrine on Mt. Carmel to an independent team of international scientific examiners expert in forensic scientific analysis in a completely uninhibited scientific determination involving the exhumation of the body claimed to be that of Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad Shirazi, the Bab, and its free and unfettered scientific determination as to whether this body in fact be that of the person claimed;

a) No individuals either haifan Baha’i or peripherally tied to the Baha'i religion (from any denomination) may serve on this team of scientific forensic experts;

b) An independent and impartial team shall serve as an oversight committee to the work of the scientific team in question which shall report on a daily basis to the aforementioned panel above on the status of the work;

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