Martyrdom of Bahai women and the Iranian regime
Today, thanks to the expansion promoted by many of his followers, and especially by his son `Abdu’l-Bahá, who, until his death in Haifa on 28 November 1921, founded Baha’i faith groups in Canada, the United States and Europe, there are more than ten million members, established in 247 countries, from more than 2000 different ethnic, tribal and racial groups, although their strongest foothold is undoubtedly in India.
These young women are still today the symbols of all those who demonstrate every day in that territory, one of the largest on the planet, demanding some of the most basic human rights necessary for a life in peace and freedom.
At dawn on 18 July 1983, night gave way to a faint light that illuminated the slow walk of 10 young women who during the previous days had been harassed and tortured by those who watched over morality in a totalitarian regime that does not understand reason and that each time, although applied with the utmost harshness, is being more and more contested.
Women in Iran are second-class citizens, and not only in Iran; their rights, which are permanently violated, are not the subject of debate as they are in the West, where the gender gap is clear, but where, in a permanent democratic context, dialogue between the social strata is making it less and less visible and smaller.
I hope that the memory of Mona and those Baha’i women will help us to rethink the gender discourse and focus it exactly where it should be, on the achievement of the most basic human rights for all women in the world who live subject to the arbitrariness of totalitarian laws and, above all, to the interests of their “masters”.
https://www.europeantimes.news/2023/06/martyrdom-of-bahai-women-and-the-iranian-regime/ a través de @europeantimes_
