Your interest in promoting tolerance is very gratefully appreciated, dear Gilberto. I wonder if you can enumerate some prominent, leading Muslim scholars, clerics, or Islamic countries/governments who have actually publicly accepted Baha'is as people of the Book.
Regards, Iskandar On Thu, 9 Feb 2006, Gilberto Simpson wrote: > All I'm saying is that Susan's father-in-law apparently is at least > one Muslim who considers at least one Bahai as being in the general > category of People of the Book. And moreover, in the interests of > promoting tolerance of Bahais, this would actually be a good thing. > > I don't have alot of interest in trying to argue with huge categorical > statements some Bahais make about Muslims. > > -Gilberto > > On 2/8/06, Firouz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear Iskandar, > > > > It's not only Iran that does not recognize Baha'is as people of Book. > > All Middle Eastern countries and their Sunni or Shia > > scholars/imams/mullahs/muftis do not recognize Baha'is as people of > > Book, neither do they recognize Baha'i Faith a religion from God. You > > can also check this site of Wikipedia. > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Book > > > > > > > > > Baha'is would be quite happy if they are counted as people of the Book by > > > Shi`ah Muslims of Iran or by any other Muslim government or society. That > > > would give us some legal entity. Right now, we are non-persons as far as > > > the Islamic Republic of Iran is concerned. I wish they'd count us as ahl-i > > > kitAb. If a Muslim murders a Baha'i in Iran, the victim's family has no > > > legal recourse. > > > > > > Iskandar > > > > > > > > > > > > The information contained in this e-mail and any attachments thereto ("e-mail") is sent by the Johnson County Community College ("JCCC") and is intended to be confidential and for the use of only the individual or entity named above. The information may be protected by federal and state privacy and disclosures acts or other legal rules. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that retention, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please immediately notify JCCC by email reply and immediately and permanently delete this e-mail message and any attachments thereto. Thank you. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:archive@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:bahai-st@list.jccc.edu Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Public - http://www.escribe.com/religion/bahaist Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
