Just before noon today, Ali Velshi, a correpondent on CNN posed this question: Should Americans be learing more about the various religions? I was pondering a similar question in my head all morning. That inquisitive attitude toward the teaching of religion had been inspired by the viewing of a YouTube clip, one made about one year ago.
In that clip, a reporter asks Iran's leader about the treatment of the Baha'is in Iran. He responds with another question. He asks the reporter if anyone in the audience can name the prophet associated with the Baha'i Faith. He knew that Americans were generally unfamiliar with that prophet, and indeed with the principles of the Baha'i Faith.
Now it so happens that Abdu'l-Baha's father was the founder of the Baha'i Faith. I would like to see more people becoming aware of that fact. Their awareness would force the leader of Iran to frame a more respectable answer to any question about the treatment of Baha'is imprisoned in Iran.
Sue C.
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