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Fire Department Religion
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Fire Department Religion Imagine today if the people were able to catch the vision of the new Cycle called for by Tahirih in the 1840's.
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Debates: Walter Martin vs Bahai
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Debate: Walter Martin vs. Baha'i I felt embarrassment for the Christians and Baha’is in this discussion, not only because they were polarized in their mi...
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A selection of Baha'i-related items
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Written by Steve Marshall, The Cormorant Baker
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |

An image from the New Delhi Regional Conference |
Good news! You have a wide choice.
You could go to the official Indian Baha'i website and be told:
We are the Bahá'ís of India - members of the largest Bahá'í Community of the world, numbering some 2.2 Million.
The Baha'is of India
Or you could check out a copy of the community's 2006-2007 annual report and see that that the total number of Baha'i adults, youth and children was 86,612.
There is one very odd thing about the detailed population data on page 55. Many of the rows and columns simply don't add up. Perhaps that page has errors in it, or perhaps it's been tampered with. I guess it means that the 86,612 figure is suspect. Decide for yourself.
There is a third source for figures on the Baha'i population of India. The 1991 Indian census (the most recent for which data at this level of detail is available) puts the Baha'i population at 5,575.
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Written by gandhifriends, The Gandhi Foundation
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |

Gandhi International Peace Award |
Please put The Gandhi Foundation’s Multi Faith Celebration in your diaries:
Date: 31 January 2009
Time: 16:00 - 18:30
Venue: London Inter Faith Centre
Address: 125 Salusbury Road, London NW6 6RG
Directions: click here
Every year, around the anniversary of Gandhi’s assassination (30th January 1948), there is a Multi Faith Celebration of Gandhi’s life which brings together people of different faiths such as Buddhist, Baha’i, Christian, Hindu, Jain, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh. Our aim is to remember Gandhi, and to share words, music and dance from our religious traditions.
“I believe in the fundamental Truth of all great religions of the world. I believe they are all God-given and I believe they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoint of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at the bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.” M. K. Gandhi
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Written by Steve Marshall
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Tuesday, 06 January 2009 |
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Vote for your choice for Best Religious Blog. "Dervish" is amongst the finalists, but don't let that influence you.
Drumroll please: voting is now open for the 2008 Weblog awards and Dervish is nominated for Best Religious Blog. Participants can vote once every twenty-four hours, and polls close Tuesday January 13 at 10:00pm GMT.
I do think the award should go to the blog that writes the most interesting and compelling posts on religion and religious matters, and not just the blog that can get the most amount of votes by partisans expressing preference for a particular denomination or religion.
So rather than simply asking you to go vote for Dervish so a Muslim blog can win, I honestly hope that you take the time to read some posts from the ten different nominations (see below) and vote for the blog you think deserves the title.
Umm Yasmin - Dervish
Voting is really easy -- there's no registration required.
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Written by Sen McGlinn, Sen McGlinn's weblog
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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One of the friends asked:
What is the ideal future envisioned in Baha’i religion? Is it a global order in which the world is composed of many diverse religions, each tolerant of one another, and the Baha’i just one amongst many? Or would the Baha’i be the organizing principle?
I think it is both a pluralist world of diverse religions tolerant of one another and working together, and one new world religious order, whose organising principle is one that is given in the Bahai Scriptures. Tolerance and cooperation between religions is new (although not entirely unknown in history), and it is a Bahai principle, but it is not a monopoly of the Bahais. It’s something the world must learn.
Religious diversity is here to stay. This would not have been obvious to the early American Bahais. America’s domination by Christianity, and its history of revivalism, made it plausible for them to think of everyone converting to the Bahai Faith in a world religious revival. Their concept of progressive revelation was that the Great Magician waves His wand, the old religions vanish in a puff of smoke, and when it clears, the Bahai Faith remains.
We cannot imagine that today. Geographic mobility and the increasing trend for people to leave and join religions of choice mean that every society on earth will, in the near future, become religiously diverse (most already are), and they will stay that way. So long as there is freedom of religion, and free investigation of truth, religious uniformity is simply impossible. Since both of these are Bahai teachings, a religiously uniform world could not be Bahai, and a Bahai world could not be religiously uniform.
Permanent religious pluralism is an obvious fact we can see in the world. How does this relate to the Bahai teaching of progressive revelation?
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Written by anon, via Iran Press watch
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |

"Hezbollah is awake and despises the Baha'is" reads this piece of graffiti on a building in the city of Abadeh. |
Editor’s Note: The following essay was contributed by one of the readers of Iran Press Watch and is published as an original piece. Iran Press Watch greatly welcomes such contributions by our informed readers on issues that impact the Baha’i community of Iran and their 160-year old struggle to achieve civil rights in that country and to be given a voice to freely express their views and convictions as they work to create a better society. It should be noted that views expressed in such essays are the author’s and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Iran Press Watch.
Unfounded Accusations Against the Baha’is!
I’ve been told by Baha’is encountered in the Middle East and elsewhere that Muslims have been telling the same stories, over and over again, about Baha’is, stories which are, most of them, completely without foundation. In other words, the Muslims who believe this nonsense are freiers. I say, if they want to be ignorant, who can stop them?
If you feel that your survival is being jeopardized by the Israelis then act like men and wage your jihad directly against that nation – not against Baha’i who won’t even fight back. 
The first story they tell about Baha’is is that the members of this religion are Israeli spies. How ridiculous that is, and how ignorant you’d have to be to believe such a thing! Anyone who has had any dealings with Mossad knows it would not have any operatives who are pacifists, and globalists to boot. No, Mossad agents are hawks and Zionists. Whereas Baha’is believe in and practice non-violence, while Mossad agents do whatever they have to for Israel, provided the order comes from their superiors. So don’t confuse Mossad with Baha’is, because there is no way that Mossad would tolerate for a minute what Baha’is have been made to endure for a century and a half. Those cowardly Muslims who target Baha’is are blaming the victims when they called Baha’is Israeli spies….if they had any honor they would take on Mossad directly — but they know better than that, don’t they?
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Written by Jim Taylor, Countercurrents.org
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Four years ago, on December 26, the day after Christmas, a massive tsunami hit the shores of the Indian Ocean.
This year, on December 26, a different kind of tsunami hit the shores of the Mediterranean Sea – a tsunami of bombs and missiles. On that day, according to the Jerusalem Post, Israel sent at least 100 fighter jets and helicopters, over 200 bombs and missiles, to destroy more than 170 targets in the tiny coastal strip known as Gaza, home to about 1.5 million Palestinians.
Why is it that every government in the world is fair game for critical comment – except one? Call China ruthless; describe Zimbabwe as a madhouse governed by a lunatic; ridicule the intellectual shortcomings of George W. Bush – and that’s a legitimate exercise of free speech.
But criticize Israel, and it’s racism.
When Germany invaded Poland, in 1939, the Jews of Warsaw were driven into a ghetto. The Jews defended themselves bravely. Resistance warriors battled both the German army and the SS, before being wiped out by overwhelming might. 
So let me state this clearly – Jews have a right to live in peace, anywhere in the world. And the rest of the world has a responsibility to ensure that Jews are not persecuted, discriminated against, or otherwise penalized because of their race or religion.
But the same principle must also apply to any other race or culture -- Baha’i, Tutsi, Basque, First Nations, Albanian, Irish, Ukrainian...
Yes, even Palestinian.
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Written by Shaynee Rainbolt
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
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Shaynee Rainbolt has not only authentically recreated the classic era of 1950s and 60s pop/jazz albums by bringing into the studio one of the great arrangers of that era, Russell Garcia. She has also brought to light the Garcia songbook, which has been waiting for just this moment to be discovered by a new generation of vocalists. Rainbolt, with her vocal ability and appreciation, becomes the perfect conduit to introduce in one package these soon to be classic songs.
Michael Anthony, WHPC 90.3 FM
Catch the show live in New York on January 14th.
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Written by PapersPast, National Library of New Zealand
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Monday, 05 January 2009 |
Grey River Argus, 6 November 1911:
BAHAISM
a new religion from Persia
"PROPHETS" VISIT TO LONDON
Abdul Baha Abbas, the mysterious Persian prophet of the Bahai religion, which has, at a moderate estimate, three million followers, is now travelling through Europe on his way to London, where he will make a short stay, and meet his English adherents.
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Evening Post, 8 March 1913
A PROPHET OF PEACE
Abdul Baha, the apostle of universal peace and brotherhood, recently visited England on his way back from America to the Orient. "London has rarely sheltered a more impressive personality," says the Christian Commonwealth, "than the leader of the Bahai movement, whom three million followers call master."
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He Who is the Dawning-place of God?s Cause hath no partner in the Most Great Infallibility. He it is Who, in the kingdom of creation, is the Manifestation of ?He doeth whatsoever He willeth?. God hath reserved this distinction unto His own Self, and ordained for none a share in so sublime and transcendent a [...]
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Reading today that Harry Potter author J.K.Rowling made a mere $300 million last year, I’ve been wondering what makes a book a bestseller? Is it the plot, the characters or just brilliant writing? The unfortunate thing for those of us who wouldn’t mind being a J.K. Rowling is that there just doesn?t seem to be any [...]
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