The Baha'i Studies Listserv > You mean the same Imams whom Bahaullah called > " the manifestations of the power of God, and the > sources of His authority, and the repositories of His knowledge, and > the daysprings of His commandments."?
As I said, I don't know how authentic those ahadith are. > I'm not saying that people aren't being mistreated. I'm primarily > questioning how the mistreatment is being framed. You want to blame > Islam or Muslims as Muslims. I believe the issue was najas, not Islam or Muslims. > You are missing the point. I'm not saying that it is "just" Jews. If > anything, it is "just" Persians (of a certain era). Maybe you should > blame the Safavids and their legacy instead of Islam. I think the fact that the Safavids forcibly converted Iran to Shi'ism was a problem, but the intolerance towards religious minorities was introduced by the 'ulama brought in from Iraq, so it isn't just an Iranian thing. > > I think you are mischaracterizing what "the ulama" are saying. And > they don't speak with one voice. Grand Ayatolla Sistani and Grand > Ayatollah Fazel Lankarani both explicitly hold that Jews and > Christians are ritually clean. And Sistani is basically the highest > ranking 12-er cleric in Iraq. If they say Baha'is are not najas I'll be impressed. __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:arch...@mail-archive.com Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-510688-274...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to ly...@list.jccc.edu Or 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 (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai...@list.jccc.net New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/bahai-st@list.jccc.edu
