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Chicago Tribune. Baha'i rift post1526
http://www.topix.net/forum/chicago/TFIIGSPMCPELF67OR/post1526
The British scholar Denis MacEoin made a very insightful observation in
his article "Baha'i fundamentalism and the academic study of the Babi
movement," in Religion, Volume 16, Issue 1, January 1986, Pages 57-84:
"More than once in the past century, scholars have had occasion to speak
of the intellectual dishonesty of the Baha'is in dealing with matters of
historical fact. Unhappily, it has fallen to my lot to reiterate the
sentiments of my predecessors and to deplore, as they deplored, the
high-handed and tendentious manner in which texts are manipulated, facts
swept aside or transformed, and common sense outraged..." (80).
In MacEoin's response to an attack by Baha'i fundamentalists, he
observed, in "Afnán, hatcher and an old bone," Religion, Volume 16,
Issue 2, April 1986, Pages 193-195, that they were similarly "dishonest
and unacademic" in their treatment of his and others' scholarship on
Babi and Bahai sources.
These same essentially dishonest and apologetic impulses are evident in
the online posts of the Haifan-Wilmette Baha'is here, as they are in
their claims in court during this misbegotten case.
That Susan Maneck has exhibited the same "dishonest and unacademic"
qualities throughout her various jihads online is no more than to
observe the facts of her conduct, easily confirmed by anyone who wishes
to independently investigate the matter for themselves. The crude
apologists for her duplicities and lack of integrity merely prove the
application of Dr. MacEoin's observations in other contexts:
Susan Maneck, Baha'i scholar:
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck1.htm
Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/SohrabEx.htm
Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship
Chicago Tribune. Baha'i rift. Baha'is upset with Orthodox Baha'i Faith
May 18, 2009
http://archives.chicagotribune.com/2009/may/18/local/chi-bahai-18-may18
All my comments posted to The Chicago Tribune Forum on one page:
http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Chicago_Tribune.html
Yahoo Group - ReformBahai
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ReformBahai
Reform Bahai Faith
Rochester, Michigan USA
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