The news item does not says that this was a teaching program, but it is hard to believe UHJ members not teaching others when getting an opportunity. Baha'is are desperately looking for new members due to dropping memberships and resignations. May be they are trying to gain more members from this area in Israel.
Ayman Rouhani, right with a Druze believer.
UHJ member Firaydoun Javaheri with Druze believers
Denis MacEoin produced great scholarship on Babism, Baha'ism and Shi'ism during the 1980s. After losing his job from the University of Newcastle-on-Tyne -- thanks to the meddling of the Baha'is from behind the scenes -- he went on to write even better fiction under the pen names of Daniel Easterman and Jonathan Aycliffe. Since the last decade, as MacEoin has aged, he has moved from being a socially conscious gentleman-scholar (who one would have once called a man of the left) to becoming a pro-Zionist apologist hack who is now publicly peddling NeoCon propaganda, fictions and agitprop without the least bit of shame. His politics now are the dirty, rightwing imperial politics of the same bunch of war criminals who daily commit genuine human rights abuses (nay, genocide and holocaust) against the indigenous population of Palestine: the same people who brought regime change, chaos and mayhem in the Middle East since 2011 and who are the same social engineers and puppeteers behind the assorted Salafist Islamist death-squads such as IS which have been unleashed on the hapless populations of the Mid East and North Africa. It is truly a shame that a man of such intellectual acumen and distinction such as he who once stood against the entire Baha'i establishment and their bullying should now be reduced to acting as a megaphone hack and stooge for pro-Zionist and NeoCon lies, agitprop and black propaganda such as those peddled by the Gatestone Institute he is now a part of -- and which is on full display in this video. MacEoin needs to seriously soul search and figure out where he went wrong. He didn't go wrong when he told Baha'i authorities to lump their NRM cult in 1979. He went wrong when as the years rolled on he didn't have the courage of his original convictions and instead went on and joined the propaganda arm of the zioNazi war machine in Britain.
"...have been subjected to unwarranted arrests, false
imprisonment, beatings, torture, unjustified executions, confiscation and
destruction of property owned by individuals..., Destruction and desecration of
burial sites, denial of employment, denial of government benefits, denial of
civil rights and liberties, and denial of access to higher education..."
Sounds like you are talking about African-Americans, Native Americans and
Latinos in the USA. Moreover, what you detail above are what native Palestinians
are subjected to -- and far worse -- by your criminal Zionist patrons in the
illegal, racist, apartheid European colonial settler state occupying Palestine
since 1948. Have you Haifan Baha'is once advocated for the rights of the
indigenous Palestinians? Never.
One more comment by N. Wahid Azal
Among people of weak or otherwise ambiguous moral fiber, as
the adage goes, money talks... The utter lies and agitprop black propaganda
that Denis MacEoin is uttering against Iran in this video is either as a
consequence of remuneration by his Zionist patrons, or the other alternative
explanation is that Denis MacEoin has fully and completely lost his mind and is
now certifiably delusional.
Iranian scholar and critic of Bahaism Hasan Ershad challenges the Baha'i Universal House of Justice in Haifa, occupied Palestine to a live public literacy test in Arabic via skype to prove its competency in the legal and jurisprudential matters it is theoretically tasked with.
Text of Subtitles (by N. Wahid Azal).
At the beginning I indicated the following point; in summary...
...at the beginning of this discussion I indicated this point...
...that the [Baha’i] Universal House of Justice...
...has no expertise in creating a legal or jurisprudential order...
...outside of [very narrowly] defined [existing] textual issues.
Why?
Because these “dear ones” have no competent literacy [in Arabic].
One of the reasons negating…
…any entry into this area of discussion…
…is the illiteracy [in Arabic] of these “dear ones”…
…inasmuch I claimed …
….that one of the legal sources of the Baha’is…
… are the books of the Bab.
Because there are rules governing these laws [and regulations]....
…and it has been written by Mr. Baha’u’llah…
…that regarding those issues where…
…what he has clearly abrogated...
…all the remaining laws and ordinances of the Bab…
…still hold legal authority…
…and remain topical…
…and the Baha’is are meant to act according to them.
What does this mean?
This means that one of the [primary] sources…
…for legislation on issues outside of the Baha’i texts…
…are the works of the Bab.
And the works of the Bab are generally in Arabic…
…and the Persian is even worse than the Arabic…
I said to Mr. Sorbi, recommending to him…
…that for one program, for five minutes…
…broadcast a live program…
…from 1 to 9, write down [on pieces of paper] the names of the UHJ members…
…put it in a raffle cup…
…and pick one out…
Out comes Mr. X.
Via Skype I will make contact…
From my end, I will then take just one page…
…from [Baha’i] legal texts…
…relating to one of the legislations of Mr. Bab…
…and I will display it…
This “dear one” in the UHJ, or wherever he may be, should then read it out loud…
…and then translate it [out loud]…
…give a brief explanation…
…as to what it is about…
Forget about its textual exposition.
Forget about its legislative particulars.
They cannot do it!
So when they [the UHJ] don’t have the required expertise…
…this is in itself is a reason for the negation of entry into the very arena…
….of [proper] legislating [by them, and law making]…
And I keep saying…
…why hasn’t the UHJ discussed this matter and that matter etc…
One of the reasons is because they don’t possess literacy…
…and this area is closed off to them…
…and so they do not possess the expert competency [to act in that regard].
Baha'i Scholar Foaad Haghighi posted this news item from HRW on his facebook page. Below is a short debate between Baha'is and David Smith on this topic.
Baha'i inspired writers compare desecration of Holy graves by Salafi / Wahhabis with the demolition of illegal cemeteries and graves of "Terrorists" in Iran.
"It is reported that in past decades, government authorities in Iran have demolished historic sites of great artistic and cultural significance, which are also sacred to the country's Bahai religious minority."
The author, mostly, a victim of Baha'i propaganda wrongly compared the situations. Here is some info for Hamza Baloch and his likes.
One prominent Baha'i Sen McGlinn on his blog Sensday has produced this report which hints to the fact that many Baha'i cemeteries in Iran may be "Private Properties" and may not have appropriate legal permission to bury their dead, hence illegal.
One such case recently reported by Sen is as follows :
Screenshot from Sen's blog : sensday.wordpress.com
Readers should be known that Baha'is did a lot of Propaganda that Iranian authorities banned the underground Baha'i University "BIHE" without any reason. This university like these very cemeteries was illegal and was operating without proper permissions.
Coming again to the article by Hamza Baloch that states "The grave-site of Quddus" was razed to the ground.... This is in fact the Great good that Iranian government has done. Mr. Hamza should know who Quddus was? and what Babis did to Iran in the earlier days of their history? Quddus was a Babi leader in Iran. The Babis were a 19th century ISIS the equivalent of the Wahhabis but in Iran. The Baha'i cult was born out of the Babi terror cult. According to Abdu'l-Baha, the laws of the Bab and his religion called the Bayan were like this:
“The utterance of the [book or religion] of Bayan in the day of the appearance of his Highness Ala (meaning the Bab) was to behead, burn the books, destroy the monuments, and massacre [everyone] but those who believed [in the Bab’s religion] and verified it,” Abdu’l-Baha, Makatib, vol. 2, p. 266.
They wanted to create a kingdom of death and terror in Iran similar to that of the Wahhabis. They started four internal wars in Iran but fortunately the government succeeded in crushing them and executed their leader. The house of their leader which was preserved by the Baha'is was razed to the ground because Iran doesn't want monuments standing for murderers.
The founder of the Baha'i cult, Husayn Ali Nuri, known as Baha'u'llah was a very violent man himself. It suffices to say that he uttered these statements regarding the murderous and terroristic rules of the Bab:
“I [swear by] He who in His hand is my soul and my essence, a single letter from the Bayan is dearer to me than everything that is in the heavens and the earth,” Fadil Mazandarani, Asrar al-athar khususi, vol. 5, p. 333 (citing Baha'u'llah)
Baha'is in Iran will never tell you these things. They spread false propaganda on the internet to play the victim and hide their true terroristic beliefs. They are in a constant state of Taqqiya and dissimulation waiting for the day when their numbers are high enough so that they can re-establish their kingdom of intolerance. Today, they are used by western governments as a tool against Iran.
Iran has learned a good historical lesson and will never ever allow Terroristic cults like Wahhabism and Baha'ism to gain a foothold in Iran, no matter how much propaganda is spewed against it.
This is what Wahhabis have done and doing...
Can these terrorist acts of Saudi Kings be compared to the destruction of illegal cemeteries ?
Prince Turki al Faisal supporting MEK terrorist organization.
The article of Prince Amir bin Abdul Aziz al Saud supporting Baha'is being distributed by Baha'is.
These very "peaceful" Baha'is are proselytizing in every country except Saudi Arabia and Israel !