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...House has plenty of sacred scripture to guide its decisions. Each of Bahai's chief prophets, the 19th century Islamic heretics known as Bab and Baha'u'llah, wrote his own five-foot shelf of divine revelations. In addition, Bahai (Persian for "follower of Baha'u'llah") broad-mindedly welcomes the wisdom of all the great religious teachers, from Moses to Christ to Mohammed to Buddha. "We love all religions," says Canadian-born Ruhiyyih Rabbani, widow of Baha'u'llah's great-grandson...
According to Samuel McLellan, a member of the Cambridge Baha'i Community, the International Baha'i Community plans to use every possible action and influence in an attempt to intervene in the case...
...December, King Hassan II of Morocco had amended the Moroccan constitution to provide freedom from persecution for established religious groups. McLellan explained, however, that heretic groups were not protected under the new amendment. It is still uncertain whether the 300 members of the Baha'i religion are considered it heretics in the new ruling...
...addition to saving the lives of the condemned men, the long-range aim of the Baha'i Community will be to prevent a national or universal persecution of minor religious sects...
...appalling prospect of this spreading through this and other countries that has disturbed us," Williams said. "If this unjustified persecution were permitted, a larger attack on the Baha'i community would almost certainly result," he continued...