PROMINENT BAHA'I SEES "DANGERS" IN 1st AMENDMENT

Over on "Baha'i Views" we have learned that the Baha'i Faith faces some very grave dangers. What are these dangers? We don't know! We only know they are, and praise God! at least we know what brings those dangers about. We must wonder how and why a Faith destined to last half-a-million years grew so flaccid that it cannot function in the United States of America without fascist control of its membership.

Someone has sent Baha'i heavyweight Mr.Momen to the "Views" blog so that Baha'i who worship according to their God-given freedoms and not Mr.Momen's can shoulder the blame they deserve. When after the Guardian's death the Persian Baha'i wrested control of the Faith away from American Baha'i, they confused independence with disobedience. The Baha'i Faith has grown increasingly more Islamic with the years. "After all, it was founded from Islam - why shouldn't it stay that way? We can't throw away Mohammad!" Did you say "Mohammad?" Did I? No, it is just the Baha'i School of Argument and Persuasion. It has fangs.

Mr.Momen is very popular in the Baha'i Faith today. We don't know much about him but he uses a lot of big words and rips into the opposition with arguments that would make a Nazi's boot heels dance. The dangers Mr.Momen fears from American Baha'i are simply the exposure of Persian manipulation of the Guardian's Writings. These Writings would have sent Mr.Momen back to where he came from, until he could recite the Ten Amendments - or the Ten Commandments, (he seems to be annoyed by both) by heart.

It is America! America is engaged in a bitter struggle with the mighty and so-called institutions of the Baha'i Faith. The fight is about the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. That is the one that appears to guarantee us the right to worship as we choose, and to speak our minds as we will. Baha'i "Unity" is painted as a desirable condition, and we admit that it is if you like mind control.

"Baha'i Views" carefully chooses its battles, and most of them are too vapid to mention. Theirs is the pure and refined party line, and unity means you agree with me, not the other way around. Your Baha'i Fantasy News Service is no small player in the game, and the "Views" audience and their handlers thirst for new ways to demonize us, but they forever dance around the name they hate the most, and want the most to accuse us of being: Americans. We welcome their saying it: Americans. We're comfortable with the name and the place. If Baha'i don't like it here, let them go back to Iran. Or are they expecting their magic name to put the government of the United States into their laps?

We are flattered to have been accused of "hurting" the Baha'i Faith by exercise of our civil and God-given rights, and we hope and pray that every day we may "hurt" it more. We look forward to the day when the "Views" poodles and Mr.Momen realize they have been had, and like us exclaim: "How could I have been so stupid!"

Note: We have chosen to express the plural of "Baha'i" as "Baha'i." We feel it conveys a deeper understanding of the difference between the religion, its organization, and its followers. It's just an experiment.