Steve has linked to a story concerning the NSA of India by Hindustan Times recently.
In a complaint filed in a city court, a few trustees of the National Spiritual Assembly of Bahais of India have been accused of espionage by their colleagues. Apparently, they were supplying classified documents from India’s defence establishments to Israeli and Iranian spying agencies and making huge amounts in foreign currency.
My interpretation of this situation is that it is an internal power struggle and these accusations are merely a volley from one camp against another. The UHJ must be extremely embarrassed at this public airing of dirty laundry.
There have been similar incidents in the past but they have always been resolved privately. The UHJ has been struggling with the NSA of India for quite some time. It is no secret that it is among, if not the most, corrupt and troubled NSA. The watchword of the UHJ has been patience and more patience. But they can not continue to be forebearing anymore. This is simply out of control.
Although this is totally an internal matter, and Baha’i Rants believes the charges to be totally false, the tragic consequence is that it will have far reaching effect outside of the Indian NSA’s little turf war and do much damage to the Baha’i Faith. And specifically, put the Iranian Baha’is in even a more precarious situation.
UPDATE: NSA of India officially denies allegations as baseless.
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Hi Baquia,
I am not sure what you mean here? Are you saying that an internal rift on the NSA of India is playing out this way in public? If that is the case then the AO Idolatry has truly reached a new low! The cognitive dissonance of such a state of affairs cannot be sustained. This is unbelievable!
I went back and read the link on the whole now very well known 1988 “Modest Proposal” incident. (I just loved the wry literary play on the title!) I believe history will eventually show it was a watershed moment in the Baha’i Faith when the suggestion to implement basic term limits was firmly (and quite gracelessly- the Mafia has more manners!) rejected by the US NSA lifetime employment establishment and the writers of the proposal essentially hounded out of the Faith. The rest is history. The US NSA is going to look very, very bad in world history to the spiritual Baha’is of the future (if the Faith survives and starts to grow again through real spiritual vitality and independent investigation of truth amid a membership of highly courageous and responsible thinkers).
Thanks for having these very valuable links here for people to learn about what happened in that sorry mess in our history. The issue of the dysfunction of Orwellian institutional personality disorder lifetime employment incumbancy in the Baha’i Faith is the single most important factor in the spectacular failure of the Baha’i Faith in my lifetime.
The Ruhization of the Faith is not the answer. It leads nowhere and cannot be sustained by cosmic spirtual forces. Time will prove this out in agony. Only connection to the inner Divine Source through personal skilled contemplation of the advanced spiritual consciousness of Baha’u'llah for the New World Age (and Jesus, and Buddha, and Krishna, and all the others as well as exponents of the best thinking and consciousness of mankind from advanced thinkers, writers, film makers, musicians, actors, scientists, healers, and artists) can sustain the human soul. Not rote filling in the blanks of pathetic courses fashioned by people who could not hold a steady job at their skill or craft level in any other organization anywhere in the real world.
“Are you saying that an internal rift on the NSA of India is playing out this way in public?”
Craig: yes, that is what I believe. And yes, I agree, it is surreal. If I get any news re this I’ll be sure to share it.
Wow! I guess the word “surreal” is the right word to say the least. I find this state of affairs amazing! With “friends” like this, who needs enemies?