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Baha’i aren’t alone in Iran’s oppression

Why highlight the plights of one faith when so many groups face oppression worldwide?
Black Press Media

Re: Baha’i education ban concerns local followers (News, May 11)

Thank you for your brief article as it appeared in the Peninsula News Review. Whilst I wholeheartedly support attention paid to any human rights abuse anywhere, I am bemused by this focus on the Baha’i faith.

Baha’i, like any faith, deserves tolerance by those outside the faith. Yet in Iran anyone who does not conform is persecuted. Not just the Baha’i. Don’t belittle the rest.

It is almost as silly as the frequent Free Tibet car bumper stickers. What about all the other oppressed in the region?

Our ignorance does not serve these people well.

Leonhard Braunizer

Central Saanich

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