“Everyone has the right to education.”
— Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Since 1979, the government of Iran has systematically sought to deprive its largest religious minority of the right to education. Specifically, the Islamic Republic of Iran has for more than 25 years blocked the 300,000-member Bahá’í community from higher education, refusing young Bahá’ís entry into university and college. The government has also sought to close down Bahá’í efforts to establish their own institutions of higher learning.
The government has used a very simple mechanism to exclude Bahá’ís from higher education: it has simply required that everyone who takes the national university entrance examination declare their religion. And applicants who indicate other than one of the four officially recognized religions in Iran — Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism — are excluded.
The idea that there should be Messengers of God after Muhammad is viewed by many Muslims as heresy — and is one of the underlying theological reasons for the persecution of Bahá’ís.
Between 1979 and 1998, more than 200 Bahá’ís were killed or executed, hundreds more were wrongfully imprisoned, and thousands were fired from government jobs, had businesses closed, and were denied pensions.
Over the last 25 years, the only source of protection, encouragement and hope for the Iranian Bahá’í community has been international concern, as expressed through the United Nations, by governments, and in the news media.
Source :http://denial.bahai.org/index.php
— Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Since 1979, the government of Iran has systematically sought to deprive its largest religious minority of the right to education. Specifically, the Islamic Republic of Iran has for more than 25 years blocked the 300,000-member Bahá’í community from higher education, refusing young Bahá’ís entry into university and college. The government has also sought to close down Bahá’í efforts to establish their own institutions of higher learning.
The government has used a very simple mechanism to exclude Bahá’ís from higher education: it has simply required that everyone who takes the national university entrance examination declare their religion. And applicants who indicate other than one of the four officially recognized religions in Iran — Islam, Christianity, Judaism, and Zoroastrianism — are excluded.
The idea that there should be Messengers of God after Muhammad is viewed by many Muslims as heresy — and is one of the underlying theological reasons for the persecution of Bahá’ís.
Between 1979 and 1998, more than 200 Bahá’ís were killed or executed, hundreds more were wrongfully imprisoned, and thousands were fired from government jobs, had businesses closed, and were denied pensions.
Over the last 25 years, the only source of protection, encouragement and hope for the Iranian Bahá’í community has been international concern, as expressed through the United Nations, by governments, and in the news media.
Source :http://denial.bahai.org/index.php
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