Those interested in the cult practices of the fundamentalists among my fellow bahais might want to look at some of the links below, especially Prof. Cole's and my website:
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Belief.net might want to exercise unusual caution. It wi ll require
more than a passing glance at a few messages to begin
to understand what is taking place here.
I suggest you begin with the links below which provide a
historical survey of the last several years of bahai censorship
and then visit further my website and Professor Cole's.
Cole's articles below provide a comprehensive
view of fundamentalism within the bahai faith today.
Brief Quotations - Professor Juan Cole
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Professor Juan R. I. Cole, University of Michigan,
"Fundamentalism in the Contemporary U.S. Baha'i Community,"
Religious Studies Review, Vol. 43, no. 3 (March, 2002):195-217:
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In his book Modernity and the Millennium, published by Columbia University
Press in 1998, Professor Cole observes the Baha'i administration has
increasingly come under the control of fundamentalists, "stressing
scriptural literalism . . . theocracy, censorship, intellectual intolerance,
and denying key democratic values (196)."
Roll Call of Victims
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To the Universal House of Justice - March 31, 1997
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The Bahai Technique ---- **Essential Reading** ---- Demonize,
Libel, Slander, Discredit, Smear, Scapegoat, Shun... etc....
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