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Iran 's Outcast Religion (reposted from the Wall Street Journal)

Posted by Bahá'ís of Abbotsford on Sunday, October 30, 2011, In : Articles of Interest 
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians have rights under the constitution. Not Bahais.

By FIRUZ KAZEMZADEH

In some 40 years as a university professor, I have been privileged to teach students who went on to serve their people as senators, ambassadors, prominent scholars and even U.S. president. None of this would have been possible had I lived in my family's homeland of Iran. As a member of the Bahai faith, I would have been barred from teaching freely—and I might even have been imprisoned, as sev...
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University students in Abbotsford speak out

Posted by Bahá'ís of Abbotsford on Thursday, October 13, 2011, In : Community Activity 
On Wednesday October 5, 2011 Baha´'í students at the University of the Fraser Valley staffed a display and talked to other students about the rights of people everywhere to have access to education. They highlighted the plight of Bahá'í university students in Iran who have not only been banned from attending public universities there, but have been arrested and imprisoned for creating and attending one that was created for them.

To raise awareness the students showed videos of peopl...
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