From: dalehusband@gmail.com   
      
   Reading the article in question, we find:   
      
   {{{Born Fatimah Baraghani, she became known as Tahirih — the pure one.   
      
   Before the Baha'i faith developed out of Babism, believers were debating   
   whether the new religion should be a gradual or dramatic departure from Islam.   
      
   "She led the contingent advocating for radical change," says Layli   
   Miller-Muro, the founder and chief executive of the Tahirih Justice Centre in   
   the United States.   
      
   This was a dangerous position, because followers of the Bab were "being mass   
   executed at the time", and she says, "the faith was seen as heretical and as a   
   political threat to the mullahs".   
      
   Tahirih understood the oppression she was living under, and had the motivation   
   to change things.   
      
   But at the age of about 35, Tahirih was murdered.   
      
   Ms Miller-Muro says her last words were: "You can kill me as soon as you like,   
   but you will never stop the emancipation of women."   
      
   As a Baha'i woman, Ms Miller-Muro founded her not-for-profit organisation in   
   1997 to provide legal assistance to immigrant women and girls fleeing violence   
   in their home countries.}}}   
      
   A BAHA'I.....not a Bayani.    
      
   {{{This week, Baha'is around the world are producing artistic and communal   
   homages to mark 200 years since the Bab's birth.   
      
   The Bab is known as the messenger who foresaw a new, prophetic figure who   
   would change the face of religion.   
      
   Born in 1819 in Shiraz, Iran, the Bab's full name was Siyyid Ali-Muhammad.   
      
   He came of age when there was "a great expectation in the Islamic world for a   
   revival", says Venus Khalessi, a spokeswoman for the Australian Baha'i   
   community.   
      
   His teachings focused on raising the status of women and called for economic   
   equality, to ease the burden on the poor.   
      
   "He helped us recognise this concept of the oneness of God," explains Ms   
   Khalessi, and this idea expanded to include the "oneness of humanity".   
      
   The Bab's message of the dawn of a new religious tradition was deeply   
   threatening to the Muslim clerics in Persia and he was put to death in 1850.   
      
   However, Baha'u'llah — the prophet the Bab foresaw, according to Baha'is —   
   continued his teachings though he was banished and imprisoned, until his death   
   in 1892.}}}   
      
   Your hatred for Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i community makes no sense in the   
   light of this article. If it weren't for Baha'u'llah, no one outside the   
   Middle East would know or care anything for the Bab and his legacy.   
      
   That there are a few thousand Bayanis remaining in Iran is in no way an   
   affirmation that your many insane rants are justified. They are still vastly   
   outnnumbered by the Baha'is around the world. If you wanted to break the   
   credibility of the Baha'i Faith,    
   that must include looking at what the Bab did. Without him, Baha'u'lah's   
   ministry wouldn't have existed. And without Baha'u'llah, the Bab would remain   
   a nobody.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)