As I said before, I hope that Khan’s spirit is liberated from the suffering and clinging to power and ego (that it was bound to in life on the physical plane of existence) as it enters the Great Emptiness.

Khan was the single worst symbol of intellectual and spiritual corruption at a high level of global haifan bahaism.

Khan was a vile encourager of fundamentalism and other superficial and inauthentic forms of spirituality.

Khan was a clever deciever who promoted spirituality while working against spiritual liberation and for a broken, exploitive and oppresive version of religion.

Khan’s life follows a pattern typical of manipulative sociopaths in positions of power – poeple lacking in true compassion and altruism.

Khan rose to popular and power by promoting false ideas and pandering to people’s weaknesses.

Khan attempted to barter access to spirituality, one of the deepest and most vile human activities possible.

The particular weaknesses that Khan promoted on his rise to power were all of the things that have been pointed out on this blog for years as being wrong with bahai culture.

If you are incapable of understanding or accepting that those things are wrong with bahai culture, then you will never understand the validity and legitimacy of the criticisms of Khan’s hideous corruption of religious leadership.

What is distasteful is your defense of a deeply dysfunctional form of religious culture and associated institutional religious leadership that is incompetent, conformist and autocratic.

People’s yearning for spirituality is valid, but the way that Khan exploited such yearning, and lowered it to the level of a broken, missionary culture that promotes false religious superiority, is deserving of deep revulsion.

Khan was the product and advocate of a dysfunctional religious culture.

Khan squandered his talents and energies on a project that is largely a construct of illusions and lies.

Khan was a person incapable of speaking against the many injustices within bahai culture.

Hey Masud,

The prohibition on women be elected to the UHJ is an absurd form of “groupism”. The complete lack of any logical or scriptural basis has been debated for many years. The only defense of the exclusion ultimately rests of irrational, premodern constructs, and autocracy (corrupt, elite power, lack of accountability and transparency).

Basic equality is a larger issue than that of postmodern feminism, which has many flaws and problems.

The electorate are not functioning on a rational basis, they are being manipulated into voting to maintain the status quo.

Many examples of attacks on nonconformsts at national conventions and similar venues provide sufficient evidence of the real operations of bahai electoral processes as a mechanism to enforce conformism.

The simple fact is that nothing creative or original has come from bahai administration for a very long time. Rather, there is dysfunction, incompetence and exploitation, bartering of access to spirituality.

Any competent sociologist would recognise the forms of manipulation and groupthink in about 15 minutes of observation of a typical bahai community.

Bahaism is a culturally and paradigmatically limited construct of a specific culture that is incapable of being open to all forms and paths of spirituality.

Bahaism provides few useful answers to the problems of postmodern culture.

Any rudimentary, scientific examination of the evolutionary origins of the human species will quickly lead to the realizations that:

1) there are more than two human genders,
2) gender differences are deeply imprinted into human beings for evolutionary reasons, including:
3) cultural, physical, intellectual, and psychological,
and
3) those differences are not univerally applicable to all members of a given gender (there is wide variation of experssion)

The existence of real gender differences has no relation of the issue of women to religious institutions.

The exclusion of women from a body such as the UHJ is nothing but an example of backward, premodern religious culture.

The attacks by a male religious body, and its various defenders and apologists, on bahais that refuse to conform of such backward beliefs, is a sad example of the kind of autocratic religious culture that is typical of the backward society that bahaism rose from.

Such attacks are the opposite of the spiritual liberation, pluralism and univeralism that people yearn for.

Such attacks do nothing but cement the image of bahaism as a backward religion controlled by fundamentalists.

The foundations of modernism and postmodernism are weakening and becoming increasingly discredited. Imperial systems are collapsing and undergoing a crisis of legitimization and potential regression to lower orders of stability/order. (Koestler)

(Democratic republics {state capitalism} are becoming Corporate Plutocracies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Preston , see below )

Regression to hero myths will not likely be culturally expressed in a manner that is pluralistic or democratic.

How can tradtional forms of spirituality provide a path through, and out of, the disintegration and chaos of modernism and postmodernism (see further below for one description of such disintegration) without being regressive?

How can traditional forms of spirituality provide the basis of a response to the problems of power and money destroying the “lifeworld” and culture of the people?

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http://www.libertarian.co.uk/lapubs/econn/econn112.htm

excerpt:

| The phrase “means of acquiring credit” …
| is a particularly significant one as the purpose of state control over
| banking and the issuance of money serves to narrowly constrict the
| supply of available credit which in turn renders entrepreneurship
| inaccessible to the majority of the population at large.  Indeed,
| Murray Rothbard argued that bankers as a class “are inherently
| inclined towards statism” [4] as they are typically involved with
| unsound
| practices, such as fractional reserve credit, that subsequently lead to
| calls for assistance from the state, or derive much of their business
| from direct involvement with the state, for instance, through the
| underwriting of government bonds.  Therefore, the banking class
| becomes the financial arm of the state not only by specifically
| underwriting the activities of the state, such as war, plunder and
| repression, but also by serving to create and maintain a plutocracy
| of businessmen, manufacturers, politically-connected elites and
| others able to obtain access to the narrowly constricted supply of
| credit within the context of the market distortions generated by
| the state’s money monopoly. [5]

What a Universal house of justice beitoladle aazame elahi
14 years ago this house promised to answer about a very delicate situation created in Rome and also in Canada

i am still waiting

Extremist ?? what are you talking about?

Bahai from Babi from Sheikhi from Shiah 12 Emami from muhammadan islam and you talk about a person LOL

If you have innocently wandered onto this website please do not take at face value what you are reading.  This is a nest of hysterical Baha’i haters who are trying to fool you.  I strongly advise against ingesting this brand of opium.  It is addictive but utterly corrosive and damaging.  For instance, tonight I have been unable to pull myself away even though I feel violently sick.  Wahid Azal’s remarks may shock you, but it is fairly easy to visit a few websites and discover more about him.  Then you may be able to judge better.  However, best just to ignore this trash.

Excellent example of the typical Jungian (psychological) shadow that is used to maintain dysfunctional bahai culture/administration.

Everything you say (ignoring personal insults, which are prohibited by your religion) is actually just a “mirror” of what is wrong within haifan bahaism:

1. mainstream bahai groupthink promotes “hate” of nonconformists, critics, dissidents, reformers, etc.

2. constant brainwashing (“opium”) is promoted within mainstream bahaism, unexamined cultural biases, exploitation by bahai administration and leadership elites is ignored, and bizarre historical incidents of abuses largely “forgotten” within mainstream brainwashed/opiumized culture. Attacks by bahai administration on scholars and activists such as Mazandarani, Louis Gregory from an early time in the religion’s history, and have continued.

3. bahai lies and deception are “addicting” – in spite of overwhelming evidence of a dysfunctional organizational culture and lots of very bad theology, people continue to defend and support the mainstream haifan bahai religion, which regularly exploits people then covers up the damage to protect the shared illusion that the religion is “perfect” (purity myth) and is guided by “infallible” entities.

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When all the above problems are pointed out, a critic is accused of being “spiritually inferior”.

mainstream haifan bahaism seeks to convert people and then exploit them.

the version of religion you are promoting is very unenlightened, and culturally imperialistic.

your own religion tells you that because it has become dysfunctional, it would be better not not have it.

what is it that you do not understand?

why do you cling to illusions and lies that have nothing to do with reality?

it is very east to find many other spiritually oriented groups that promote enlighenment, spiritual transformation and social change/justice in far better ways than does mainstream haifan bahaism.

http://www.wiserearth.org was set up to coordinate a list of (one million) 1,000,000 NGOs and other civil society and sustainability groups that actually work for a better world, without needing to convert and brainwash people (which is what you are trying to do).

please stop the lies and instead, actually do something to make the world a better place, without the absurd, backward religious insanity and dysfunctionality.

Well Masud, why wouldn’t incumbents want to protect their jobs? Wouldn’t you? Why wouldn’t someone who’s done nothing all his life but to get paid through the Bahai funds not want to continue in that, when they maybe aren’t suited at this point in their life for much else? If you knew you could guarantee your job security having ‘served’ for so long in a position, would you do it? Of course you would. What you may take as a negative worldly view devoid of the high level of spirituality one needs to just trust elected Bahai officials, is actually the normal thinking person’s view in this world. SO don’t be surprised if people consider YOUR view of such mindless acceptance a little fundamentalist in nature or what you termed “brainwashed buffoons”. But again Bahais live in this cloistered world of their  own where they think their system and their views are just PERFECT. Meanwhile the rest of the world just shakes its head “you are a cassette tape thinking it is an MP3″. 

If you have innocently wandered onto this website please take Sarmad’s comment as an illustrative example of the lamentable level of discourse current in the Baha’i community.

Hey CoL,

agreed.

most bahai bullying of critics and dissidents in cyberspace are unsophisticated, pathetic and cowardly. Sarmad’s cowardice is typical. He is presumably used to some fascist LSA or Ax. Bored Members doing the dirty work attacking   bahai nonconformists, critics or dissidents that pop their heads up in normal life.

to be fair and balanced, compassion should be extended to people that have been brainwashed by evil forces.

also, please comment on “CESNUR Paper: Bahai Dissent by Bei Dawei” , if possible.

Amen!

 When the Intelligent Mind is used for Truth it becomes apparent for those who have eyes…:) 

I read that Teachers/Prophets once came to different parts of the world where assistance was needed. However, the people chose what they wanted to practice from those teachings.

So I like your idea of honing in on the Guidance that uplifts…presented with musical art (being discerning not to pair such music with what is not in alignment with the Divine Will). 

Here is a recent publication of a video that celebrates the Ever-Creating Spirit that Tahirih Manifested.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyptLOJw6yc

And another one about Free-Will. It is useful as humanity moves away from separation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1yNJXRoh3s&NR=1

I have only this to say:

KHAAAAAAN!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRnSnfiUI54

Cole is a giant ass. A complete, total and complete jerk of a Neo-Liberal sell-out and war-warmongering nincompoop! Like I just posted to Dan, he is also apparently consulting the CIA these days. That said, here another quote for the ages about Bahaism from the same book by Hamid Dabashi:

“What the Babi Movement of the middle of the nineteenth century and the Constitutional Revolution of the end of the nineteenth/beginning of
the twentieth century ultimately reveal is how as soon as the
insurrectionary spirit of Shi’ism degenerates in one case it resuscitates itself in another. As soon as the Babi movement of the middle of the century degenerated into the Baha’i religion, the Constitutional Revolution of the end of the century becomes the repository of all the hopes and aspirations that were brutally murdered with the execution of Bab in 1850. The collective spirit of protest that is in Shi’ism in its most insurrectionary moments divests its aspirations from the lofty but irrelevant and megalomaniac claims of Baha’ullah and invests them in local and anonymous figures far closer to their miseries and hopes. The Constitutional Revolution thus rises like a sphinx from the ashes
of the Babi Movement (p.83)….Baha’ullah systematically eradicated every ounce of revolutionary energy from Babism and put it squarely at the service of the reigning monarchy and of Russian and then British colonialism. By the time that Iranians were getting ready to tear down the very foundation of Qajar monarchy in the course of the Constitutional Revolution, Baha’ullah officially sided with [Nasiruddin] Shah. His son and successor Abd al-Baha went even further and was knighted by George V, and under the British mandate established the center of his vanity in Haifa…(p.83)”

Yes, p.80. It was a typo. And your point is, what…???

AllahuAbha,

Dear bahai scholars and friends

Muhammadan rasullullah PBUH enjoined (what a beautiful bahai word) the muhammadan males to shave there, and not the ladies.

I have 2 important questions, please help:

1-why not ladies?
2-what his successor (Bahaullah, Arvahana le vahdatahulfada) orderd?

Even if you do NOT have the quotation is OK for me, just wanted to know if bahai males are shaved; I don´t care about the law for females

thanks and best regards

This is a real question please help

AllahuAba

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