Re: Believer Beware- Turf War

"Jerry Joplin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Rod wrote:
> > Jerry Joplin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I'm saying that all attacks against the Baha'i community are attacks on
> >>the whole of the faith.
> >
> > Without even establishing that ANY ATTACK on COMMUNITY OR WHOLE FAITH
> > has transpired.
>
> Everyone (except you) has agreed that the attacks on the Iranian Baha'i
> community are attacks on the whole of the Baha'i Faith.

Everyone has NOT agreed on that. The attacks on the Iranian community have
been precisely that - no other Bahai community, or part thereof,  in the
world has been subject to attack by Iranian religious nutters.

It has not been established even, that the attacks are the product of
religious intolerance.  Motivation therefor may be other than hatred of the
BF as blasphemous heresy.

You might begin to understand the complexity of this subject if you were,
for example, to consider the praxis of Ian Paisley.  He says some pretty
nasty things about the Cathoilic faith yet does not attack the Catholic
community, many of whom acknowledge his good work as a politician to advance
their interests.  Here is a man who attacks a Faith yet desists from
attacking a community, indeed, doing the contrary by endeavouring to look
after it.