http://www.bahairights.org/2009/04/29/interview-with-one-of-the-shoraniya-assailants/ Defending the human rights of the Baha'i minority Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:20:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.bahairights.org/2009/04/29/interview-with-one-of-the-shoraniya-assailants/#comment-2378 70 Egyptians Arrested During Protest Against Relocating Baha’is to Their Village Sun, 30 Aug 2009 17:52:45 +0000 498969894#comment-2378 [...] the attacks in Sharoniyah village where five houses of Baha’is were burned to the ground on March 30, 2009, 30 Baha’i families fled the village out of fear of additional attacks. The families who lost [...] [...] the attacks in Sharoniyah village where five houses of Baha’is were burned to the ground on March 30, 2009, 30 Baha’i families fled the village out of fear of additional attacks. The families who lost [...]

]]> http://www.bahairights.org/2009/04/29/interview-with-one-of-the-shoraniya-assailants/#comment-1682 Khalil A. Khavari Fri, 01 May 2009 03:21:17 +0000 498969894#comment-1682 Mr. Ibn Rushd's blog is the kind of statement that I have always expected from enlightened Egyptians. Mr. Rushd goes beyond the specific horrific action of some misguided and provoked villagers and addresses the larger problem of dealing with "the Others." More and more people throughout the world are coming to the realization that the whole idea of "the Other" is indeed anathema to being a fair-minded human and worthy of the name. For far too long, politicians, and sadly a cast of clergy from various religions, have used this deadly weapon of pitting one people against another to their own advantage. Baha'u'llah emphatically advises humanity: Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch. Hence, it is definitely time for all members of the human family to abandon the defunct exploitative beliefs such as "we vs them," "we the sacred vs they the profane." It is definitely time to tear down the decaying walls of separation and build bridges to connect our totality of the human family. It is only through a united effort that we can overcome the myriad of problems currently besetting mankind and working to make the earth a reflection of heaven, as we have been promised. Mr. Ibn Rushd’s blog is the kind of statement that I have always expected from enlightened Egyptians. Mr. Rushd goes beyond the specific horrific action of some misguided and provoked villagers and addresses the larger problem of dealing with “the Others.”
More and more people throughout the world are coming to the realization that the whole idea of “the Other” is indeed anathema to being a fair-minded human and worthy of the name. For far too long, politicians, and sadly a cast of clergy from various religions, have used this deadly weapon of pitting one people against another to their own advantage.
Baha’u'llah emphatically advises humanity: Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch. Hence, it is definitely time for all members of the human family to abandon the defunct exploitative beliefs such as “we vs them,” “we the sacred vs they the profane.” It is definitely time to tear down the decaying walls of separation and build bridges to connect our totality of the human family. It is only through a united effort that we can overcome the myriad of problems currently besetting mankind and working to make the earth a reflection of heaven, as we have been promised.

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