Denial of Education to Bahai Youth in Iran
Written by ry on October 4th, 2005All of you (students especially) please drop what you’re doing and check out this site, put up by the Universal House of Justice Baha’i International Community to highlight the denial of higher education to Baha’is in Iran.
Apparently in response to this pressure, the government officially announced in late 2003 that it would drop the declaration of religious affiliation on the application for the national university entrance examination.
This, Bahá’í youth believed at the time, cleared the way for them to take the examination and to enroll in university in the fall of 2004.
The removal of the data field asking for religious affiliation was critical to Bahá’í youth who sought to enter university. The government had always said that if Bahá’ís simply declare themselves as Muslims, they would be allowed to enroll. But for Bahá’ís, who as a matter of religious principle refuse to lie or dissimulate about their belief, even pretending to be a Muslim for the sake of going to university was unthinkable.
So check it out and pass it on to all of your high-profile contacts at the UN and CNN. This crap has just got to stop, and it isn’t going to until there’s enough international pressure. And it’s also availiable as a booklet or you can download the pdf’s and print your own copy.
For those of us who came into the Baha'i Faith through the ever popular 
