This is an excerpt from the UK's Channel 4 News on 18th February 2009 where the Iranian Nobel Prize-winning human rights lawyer Shirin Ebadi talked to the programme about the plight of the Baha'is in Iran, the impending trial of the 7 Iranian Baha'is falsely charged of spying for Israel, as well as human rights violations in general and how difficult it is to do her work.
Against all odds, this courageous women is still raising her voice :
Geneva, 13 January 2010 — Iran's decision to begin the trial yesterday of seven Baha'i leaders has triggered a strong international reaction, including a call by Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi for their immediate release and ultimate acquittal.
"If justice is to be carried out and an impartial judge should investigate the charges leveled against my clients, no other verdict can be reached save that of acquittal "
CandlesOfUnity 2 years ago
khafe biniiiim baabaa
ghateljoon 2 years ago
How so? I have never seen her propose anything contrary to the interests of Iran or Islam.
Which do you think is true Islam, the one that believes "There is no compulsion in religion" or the one that desecrates graves and hangs young girls for teaching classes to children?
And as for Iran, the Baha'i faith is Persian at its very root. Some of our scripture is even in pure Persian with no Arabic.
Indeed, I am interested how you justify calling her a traitor.
PeterJDeer 2 years ago 2
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She is one traitor.
Amavand 3 years ago
Bahá'u'lláh declared that he was the "Promised One" of all religions, fulfilling the messianic prophecies found in world religions.He stated that his claims to being several messiahs converging in one person were the symbolic, rather than literal, fulfilment of the messianic and eschatological prophecies found in the literature of the major religions.
impartial1 3 years ago
Bahá'u'lláh's eschatological claims constitute six distinctive messianic identifications: from Judaism, the incarnation of the "Everlasting Father" from the Yuletide prophecy of Isaiah 9:6, the "Lord of Hosts"; from Christianity, the "Spirit of Truth" or Comforter predicted by Jesus in his farewell discourse of John 14-17 and the return of Christ "in the glory of the Father"; from Zoroastrianism, the return of Shah Bahram Varjavand, a Zoroastrian messiah predicted in various late Pahlavi texts
impartial1 3 years ago