Friday, May 16, 2008

Iranian Baha'is have been denied the opportunity to participate in post secondary education...

For well over a quarter of a century, Iranian Baha'is have been denied the opportunity to participate in post secondary education. To this day, the Iranian government covertly manages to discriminate against Baha'is, despite the fact that the United Nations, academic departments and human rights organizations around the world continue to place pressure on the State to desist from asking applicants about their religious affiliation.
Roughly 800 of 1000 Baha'is who wrote entrance exams in 2007 have been given notice that their files were "incomplete."
The Iranian government continues to systematically label many qualified Baha'i applications as "incomplete" and thus they are unable to register and attend university. This "incomplete" designation is but one more tactic in a long list of human rights violations in which the Iranian government denies higher educational access to its largest religious minority; a minority whose only crime is their fundamental belief in the oneness of humanity, the equality of men and women and the elimination of all forms of prejudice.

From a moral perspective, denying higher education based on religious discrimination is fundamentally wrong......................BENJAMIN KELLY

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