Word: baha
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...guardians of this ideal are the Baha'is, followers of the Persian prophet Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i faith, which at 142 years old, is considered to be one of the world's newest religions. Since then the numbers of his followers have continued to grow, and now number close to three million. Although their numbers are not comparable to other world faiths, Baha'is are widespread and have representatives in far-flung corners of the world...
...these corners is Harvard. Baha'is in the university community now number about 15, most of whom comprise the Harvard Baha'i Association, which has been in existence since at least the 1950s, says Gisu Mohadjer '83, a Business School student who was the club's president as an undergraduate...
...week felt a need to retreat, at least briefly, from one of his Administration's most staunchly held foreign strategies. In an International Human Rights Day address, Reagan paused in a litany of familiar themes (the Soviets' "barbaric war" in Afghanistan, Iran's persecution of the Baha'i religious minority) to broach a surprise topic. "The U.S. has said on many occasions that we view racism with repugnance," he asserted. He then confessed "our grief over the human and spiritual cost of apartheid in South Africa...
...itself publicly and disband. In August they suspended the Hojjatieh Society, an esoteric Shi'ite Muslim splinter group that refuses to interpret the Koran in the fashion approved by the mullahs. During the past five years the regime has also incited mobs to desecrate the shrines of the Baha'i faith, drive thousands of adherents out of their homes and kill at least 150Baha...
...policy of peace applies even to current enemies. Vahid Alavian, an engineering teacher at the University of Illinois whose father was tortured and executed in Iran in 1981, seeks to be forgiving toward the anti-Baha'i mobs, although he doubts that the Almighty will be as tolerant. "They are mostly pawns who believe they are working for the elimination of the ungodly from the earth," he says. "But those who plan all this know better, and they will pay a high price before God." -ByRichard N. Ostling. Reported by Raji Samghabadi/New York and Don Winbush/Chicago