Word: bahaism
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...that government agents provoked anti-Baha'i hysteria to divert reactionary Muslims from turning their fury against the Shah. Recalls a former SAVAK officer: "A lot of Muslim clergy, including many with high positions in the Khomeini regime, grew rich on SAVAK money, which they took to fight Bahaism and Communism." In the 1978 turmoil that preceded the Shah's departure, 40 people, both Baha'is and Muslims, were killed during rioting in Shiraz...
...Everything would certainly have been much simpler if Shoghi Effendi had made a will," said a Hand from Paris when the meeting was over. But Bahais have hopes that they will not remain without scriptural interpretation too long. Founder Baha'u'llah decreed that when Bahaism was established in 57 countries, the world's Bahais were to elect a Universal House of Justice with power to make the faith's laws and interpret its teachings. The liberal, world-brotherhood Bahai religion is already rooted in 26 countries and, say its devotees, is spreading fast...
...Christianity. To the Shiite Moslems of Iran, Bahaism is a heretical splinter group. The controversy centers around their belief in the second coming of the Imam, a descendent of Mohammed's son-in-law AH, who will inaugurate a new and glorious era in history after a period of wars, eclipses and catastrophes. But the Bahais believe that the Imam already has come-heralded by one Mirza Ali Mohammed, who proclaimed himself Bab (Gate) and stirred up enough theological ruction to get himself executed by the government in 1850. He was followed by Mirza Hussein Ali, a wealthy cabinet...
...Iran, Bahai proselytizing has been a lot more real than in the State Department. Orthodox Moslems have long resented the inroads made by Bahaism among young intellectuals and government leaders-even including some Army generals, such as General Abdulkarim Ayadi, the Shah's own physician. Thi month's suppression of Bahai in Iran came after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools...
...light dry wine." Leading Friends: Pastor Christian Ficthorne Reisner of Manhattan's Broadway Tabernacle ("I get in the papers all I can, but it is not personal publicity I seek-I want my Christ played up"); Mizra Ahmad Sohrab, direct descendant of Mohammed and leader of U. S. Bahaism ("There is no saint without a past; there is no sinner without a future"); Editor Josette Lacoste of the U. S. French-language weekly, Amérique ("Only with a baby in arms can one walk safely in Paris"). No matter how many haughty ladies might refuse to curtsy...