A Baha’i home arsoned in Kerman, Iran
July 19th, 2008 by Admin Disturbing news was just received from Kerman, Iran. A summary of the report:
Mihran Shakir and his family are Baha’is and live in Kerman. For some time, Mrs. Shakir had been receiving threatening phone calls (presumably for being members of the Baha’i community). When the family attended the commemorative meeting on the night of Baha’u'llah’s Ascension, their car parked on the street was firebombed. Fortunately, the friends at the gathering had noticed the fire and quickly put it out by a fire extinguisher. The car was not damaged very much.
But during the early hours of Friday, July 18, the Shakir’s home was burned completely and arson is suspected. It so happened that the Shakirs had left for the weekend and no one was home or injured by this incident. The report notes that at 4 in the morning, one of the neighbors was disturbed by smoke and had immediately telephoned the fire department. By 5 am the fire engines arrived, had extinguished the fire and began an investigation. Soon it was learned that one of the neighbors had heard a soft expulsion about 3:30 am, but had not thought much about it. Someone else had also noticed suspicious activities on the roof. The investigators believe the fire started in the living room and initially thought it occurred because of problems with the electrical wiring. However, that appears unlikely since the fire had generated a heat so intense that it had bent thick iron bars used in the ceilings. All the furniture and interior of the house were either completely destroyed or seriously damaged.
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If it were a Muslim family being persecuted, those Mullahs would have been screaming “Jihad!” by now.
Appalling!
this is seriously disturbing and make one think that things are continually getting worse for the bahais. i hope that things will change for them and the many other iranians that are suffering daily.
o god my god it is too much for the bahais . god with them
God bless the Shakirs, who have given so much. May He also forgive the arsonists, they are truly the unfortunate ones.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad proves again that he is the ANTI-Christ
Because this reminds me of incidents that happened in the Southern USA during the 1950’s & 1960’s when decendants of former slaves were seeking their rights as human beings to co-exist with other Americans…
This also similar to incidents in NAZI Germany in the 1930’s when Hitler was targeting Jews
Dear Friends,
It has been said that the darkness of the whole universe cannot extinguish or put off the light of one candle. This and other incidents only show that our world is spiritually ill, and that it is our duty to care for this world with all the hardship involved. It is not with hatered, or fear or anger that our world with those mullas and thier followers in it that will cure those spiritual illnesses. But with love, the love of God, and the love of humanity. With light and only light that darkness is defeated.
What do Baha’is believe?
Bahá’ís believe that there is one God, that all humanity is one family, and that there is a fundamental unity underlying religion.
They recognize that the coming of Bahá’u'lláh has opened the age for the establishment of world peace, when, as anticipated in the sacred scriptures of the past,
all humanity will achieve its spiritual and social maturity, and live as one united family in a just, global society.
The earth is but one country,and mankind its citizens. BAHÁ’U'LLÁH