More about religious persecution
Written by mcgee on December 19th, 2005This National Review article is about the perils of the Christian communities in Iran, but it also discusses some of the other faiths that have been persecuted there by the government, including Jews, Sunni Muslims, and the Bahá’ís.
Iranian members of the Bahai faith, which began in the 1840s as a reformist movement within Shia islam, are regularly arrested, tortured, and jailed because of their beliefs. Since 1979, more than 10,000 Bahais have been dismissed from government and university jobs. Bahais are not allowed to attend state-run universities. Over the past eighteen months, Bahai holy sites and cemeteries have been destroyed, community leaders arrested, and their property seized. “The Government considers Bahais to be apostates,” the report states. Under Islamic sharia law, in force in Iran, apostasy is punishable by death.
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