BANK FRAUD - Re: Baha'i technique of loan application (using false, inflated statistics to qualify for loans)

Here is how the loan is applied for:
>
> 1) NSA applies for a loan
>
> 2) NSA Provides the number of contributers- now, recall how Baha'i UHJ
> claims that universal participation is important- even if one gives
> $1.00?
>
> 3) Thus everyone is counted, even if they hardly contributed.
>
> 4) The total amount of contribution: here, the balance is padded by
> contributions (actually false loans) from Habib Sabet- Khojasteh-
> Amanat- Banani- and many other wealthy Baha'is.
>
> 5) Once the loan is obtained from the US Bank, then the " paddedd
> loans" from the wealthy Baha'is are quietly returned .
>
> 6) It is no surprise then to see a deficits of 2-3 millions dollars by
> April of each year- disappear due to "sacrificial givings".
>
> 7) The giving is really a padded loan from those rich Iranian Baha'i
> Refugees in US-Canada-Australia-Brazil-United Arab Emirates- and even
> Iran.
>
> This is in summary the Baha'i technique of "padding" the number of
> contributers and "padding" the amount of contributions.
>
> This technique is used very frequently by the NSA- UHJ. It is very
> difficult to pierce as the number of contributers plus contributions
> can not be entirely audited.
>
> Recall how the Canada NSA has a huge deficit but in their Tax filing,
> the Canada NSA has a surplus of several million dollars.
>
> Link: http://www.geocities.com/molonelaveh/faq.html
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> There you have it- dear TRB readers.
>
> I agree with Dr. Maneck in the first part of her response. In the
> second part, you can see how the "padding" is done in order to extract
> the maximum loan amount from the US Bank.
>
> Henry
>
>
>
>
>
> avicenna9012000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> > That is an excellent point.
>> > When the US NSA must obtain loans- then the number of followers
> would be great to inflate.
>> > Non-profit organizations have ways to get their loans approved.
>
> smaneck@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> Banks look at numbers of contributers and amounts of contributions.
>> They couldn't care less what the membership is if they don't
> contribute.
>
 
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Ex-Baha'i Christian Testimony Baha'i Faith "left me spiritually cold and hungry"

Here is the story of Brigid, a former Baha'i who has become a Christian. This was originally posted by the author to the ex-bahai Yahoo group, and has been reproduced here with one minor addition and the author's last name deleted by request.

Reflections on Leaving the Baha'i Faith

In September 1999 I discovered the Baha'i Faith via the Internet, declared in September 2000 and resigned in September 2001. I have continued to reflect on my experiences with the BF in the intervening year and offer the following as a reflection on why I initially joined the Faith and, more importantly, why I was unable to remain within it.
Background
My own religious roots lie in Catholicism, whose traditional liturgy and ritual I loved for giving me a sense of the majesty and transcendence of God. It did, however, also foster a false image of God as a stern judge, always waiting for me to make a mistake and who did not hesitate to let me know that my best was never good enough. I rebelled against this in my teens and starting seeking alternative paths including humanism and Quakerism. I found both of these ultimately disappointing, being comprised largely of nice, comfortable, middle-class people who were very well meaning but ultimately ineffectual in addressing the not so nice and not so comfortable world around me.
In the early 1990s I attempted to return to my roots by attending the Tridentine (Latin) Mass but found that while the liturgy was a balm to my spirit I simply could not share the deeply conservative, even paranoid, worldview of the rest of the congregation. I left feeling that I was never fated to find a faith community where I could pursue both spiritual practice and social justice.
Discovering the Baha'i Faith
Finding the Baha'i faith, therefore, seemed initially to be the answer to all that I had been seeking for. I had typed in a request to an Internet search engine for prayers for healing, and one of the pages referred me to something called "The Long Healing Prayer".
Reading the prayer sparked my curiosity about its author with the unpronounceable name and I followed one link after another. I had discovered the Baha'i faith.
The following weeks were filled with a sense of excitement as a thrilling vision of a new society based on the principles of justice, equality and peace emerged from the Baha'i Writings. I simply devoured one text after another and finally plucked up the courage to contact the local Baha'i community. I found that I had already met the local secretary in another capacity some years previously and we became firm friends. She invited me to attend the regular devotional meeting at her home where I was warmly welcomed. Here I could say and hear the wonderful prayers that had first attracted me to the Faith.
Soon I began attending firesides, devotionals and talks and felt that I had indeed discovered a pearl of great price.
Declaration
After a year of intensive study I began to feel that it was decision time. I was also aware that following my attendance at a Baha'i summer school, there was a tangible expectation that I would declare soon. My sponsor told me that although she had taken a number of years to take the final step I could only truly experience the faith from the inside and could always walk away if I found I had made the wrong decision.
Yet, now that it was crunch time I had a sense of doubt that simply would not go away. I think it was a sense that, as the old adage has it, "if something sounds too good to be true then it probably is".
Wouldn't it be better to try and answer all my niggling questions and doubts before taking the plunge? I told myself that perhaps these difficulties would disappear as I grew in the faith, and I was very aware that if I failed to declare soon, I would disappoint the Baha'is who had taken an interest in me.
Thus I persuaded myself to go ahead despite my misgivings. I had no sense of peace or elation. Indeed, I felt miserable on the evening of my declaration, but put it down to residual guilt for having "betrayed" Christianity. I tried to comfort myself with the assurances that I was now a "completed" Christian and had not turned my back on Jesus Christ, instead I had recognized His return.
Immediately after my declaration people congratulated me, but then I had a sense of being yesterday's news and it was on to finding the next convert. The three months after I declared were a lonely time for me and I felt I was in some sort of limbo, not knowing what my role was, what was expected of me, or simply of what I was supposed to do next. I had no sense of being a cherished new member of a living, loving community or of being taken by the hand and gently guided along. I received no practical guidance or emotional support at all, just a standard letter from the NSA telling me I had done a great thing and encouraging me to look to the LSA for spiritual support and guidance.
Disillusionment
In hindsight, it was perhaps inevitable that my initial sense of excitement and discovery could not last. Yet, I did not expect to be so thoroughly disillusioned quite so quickly. The first real jolt came when I attended the weekly Baha'i school a week after I declared and found that the emphasis appeared to be not on the independent investigation of truth but rather on sitting passively in rows being lectured to. It brought back unpleasant memories of religious education classes at school where to question things equated to being labelled a potential troublemaker or heretic. I worked as an adult education teacher and felt that how the school operated broke every rule in the book. Frankly, I expected better from Baha'is; the faith for the modern age ran a disturbingly old-fashioned Sunday school. I was desperately keen to study the Writings in depth but there was no outlet to do this. The school seemed to be keener on indoctrination than on the search for truth.
The second factor in my disillusionment was a growing dissatisfaction with the quality of community life. The community seemed to lack a sense of vitality or enthusiasm, and, for that matter, any meaningful sense of community at all. It was a curious paradox that the community appeared to be characterized by inertia despite the fact that the active members were impossibly busy! I often wondered why people did not draw back from the round of meetings and activities to ask themselves exactly what all this "busyness" actually achieved. I also noticed that many Baha'is lived their whole lives within the context of these activities and did not seem to engage with the wider world, unless it was to prosleytize them for the faith. For a religion with an international focus the Baha'i world often seemed extremely narrow and inward looking.
The third, and most important, aspect of my disillusionment lay in the disappointing quality of Baha'i spiritual life. The lack of ritual was obviously a challenge for someone with my background and I felt its absence keenly. I had heard Baha'is speak disparagingly about "empty ritual" without ever seeking to explore the meaning and function of ritual in the religious experience of human beings.
As an enquirer I had often wondered what it would be like to attend a Baha'i Feast and imagined that it would be a special, spiritually nourishing experience. I could not have been more wrong. So far from being spiritual dynamite a feast was a damp squib. There was nothing special at all about it, people stumbled their way through hastily arranged devotionals, and then it was time for business and a quick snack. My first feast was a letdown from which I never really recovered and I attended only a few more before giving up completely.
I found that there was very little spiritual encouragement in general within the local community. I attended talks about the gardens at Haifa, the covenant and the importance of giving to the funds, but nothing about the spiritual life. Materialism seemed to be at the centre of my new religion and it left me spiritually cold and hungry.
Leaving the Faith -- Stage One
Six months after I joined I told my sponsor that I wished to leave. She was upset but accepted a lot of my criticisms. Word reached the LSA and the Chairman rang up and lectured me about backbiting instead of approaching the Assembly. I was taken aback as it had honestly never occurred to me to bare my soul before 9 people, some of whom I did not even know. I informed him that I had simply discussed my difficulties with my sponsor and another friend, both of whom had encouraged me to remain. How was this backbiting?
A Persian Baha'i then invited me to his home and he and his wife also listened to my views. They had recently moved into my community and were aware of some of the difficulties with the quality of feasts and other issues that I raised. After further discussion with my sponsor I said that I would give myself another six months before finally making a decision.
Perhaps it was not a coincidence but things started to happen after that. I was appointed to a committee, invited to talk at the next summer school and generally encouraged to get more involved. Yet, it was already too late.
Leaving the Faith -- The Turning Point
During this six-month period I did a lot of prayer and meditation and really searched myself. It was during meditation that a question arose which proved the key to it all. I had an icon of Christ in my room which I'd brought back from a vacation in Greece many years ago. During my meditation I heard a voice within me asking, "Who do men say that I am?" I dismissed this as a passing distraction and centred myself again, but my gaze was drawn to the icon. As I grew quiet again the voice, this time louder and more insistent, addressed me by my first name and said, "Who do YOU say that I am?" Immediately I answered aloud "You are the Christ, the Son of the Living God". Then I just sank to my knees and said "We praise you O Christ, and we adore you, because by your holy cross you have redeemed the world". This is a prayer that Catholic people traditionally say when performing the stations of the cross; I hadn't said it for years and yet it just burst forth from me.
I have never been a "signs and wonders" person, but I feel this was a direct intervention from God and it was the catalyst for my deliverance from the Baha'i faith and my return to Christianity. My commitment to the Baha'i faith ended at that very moment and I set myself to working out how I was going to tell the Baha'is that I would be going through with my resignation after all.
Leaving the Faith -- Stage Two
In some ways stage two was easier than what went before in the sense that I had regained the inner peace that had eluded me since joining the faith, but harder in that I was now officially involved and had commitments which I felt bound to honour. The real struggle was carrying on with the knowledge that I no longer believed in the faith and yet knowing that my resignation would disappoint and hurt people that I cared about.
In the end, however, it was made easier for me by the community's decision to hold a series of deepenings for new believers. I dutifully attended session one but it was clear to me that I could not delay my resignation any longer. The deepening consisted of a long list of rules and regulations, of laws and of do's and don'ts that must be obeyed by the new Baha'i. I realized that I had come full circle and was back to the impossible task of trying to please a legalistic, judgmental God. Wasn't this what I was trying to get away from?
During the coffee break I went to the kitchen to help the host and told her that I was unhappy in the faith and wanted to return to Christianity. She told me that it was difficult for some people to stop hankering after empty ritual and not having priests telling them what to do. She regretted that her husband was not there as he could have convinced me from the Bible that the Baha'i faith was true.
I left knowing that I would not be back for session two and the next day began writing a letter to the assembly. In it I told them that a year previously I had signed a declaration card which I could not in conscience sign today as I did not believe Baha'u'llah was the return of Christ or His equal. They accepted my resignation with regret but assured me that all the friendships I had made in the community would remain. It was over.
Life After the Faith
After my resignation I was overwhelmed by a sense of relief and freedom. Yet, there were other, more negative, emotions present too. I felt a good deal of anger, both at the faith which had been such a fraud and disappointment, and at myself for being taken in by it. I have spent the year since my resignation trying to deal with the issues that my involvement with the Baha'i Faith raised for me.
Writing about my experience has proved therapeutic and I am glad I have been able to put the whole thing behind me. I still remain in contact with my former sponsor and with another friend who has recently left the faith himself. I have met some other Baha'is since and found that some have remained friendly towards me whereas others give me a cooler reception. I rejoice, however, that I have been able to move on.
Postscript
In September 2001 I resigned from the Baha'i Faith. In September 2002 I was received as a catechumen (someone taking instruction) in the Orthodox Church and at Pascha (Easter) 2003, was received into the full membership of the Church.
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Here is an email from Brigid in which she explains her decision to convert to the Eastern Orthodox form of Christianity:
Subject: On choosing Orthodoxy when I left the Baha'i faith
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 23:58:12 +0100 (BST)
From: Brigid [Last Name Deleted]
To: Eric Stetson, webmaster, Bahai-Faith.com
Glory be to Jesus Christ our true saviour!
Hello Eric,
God bless you for all you are doing with the new yahoo group and your own wonderful web site....
You asked me why I chose Orthodoxy when I left the Baha'i faith, and the answer is in one way very simple -- I think it is the only church which has preserved the faith once handed down to the apostles, unchanged and unchanging. I also found that it offered me richness and beauty in sacramental worship, and if you read my ex-Baha'i story you will see why that is important to me. The mystical strain in eastern Christianity is very attractive as well to me as is the chance to escape the judgmental legalism of my Roman Catholic background. Orthodoxy does not accept the RC doctrines of purgatory, for example, and I find the veneration of the saints and the Theotokos (The Blessed Virgin Mary) somewhat healthier in Orthodoxy. I found when I started to study Orthodoxy I was being confronted with a wholly different understanding of who exactly Jesus Christ is and why He came into the world. I rediscovered the importance and centrality of the Trinity, of prayer, fasting and repentance. Orthodox thinking about salvation is different from the emphases in western thinking too....
Eric, I rejoice every day that I got out of the Baha'i faith and it is my prayer that others will too. To see Our Lord's uniqueness reduced to playing a subordinate role as a forerunner to Muhammed and Baha'u'llah is intolerable to me. Christianity and the Baha'i faith are irreconcilable theologically, yet articulating this truth boldly but with compassion is the difficult bit for me!
God bless you
In Christ
Brigid

The entrenchment of homophobia in the Baha'i Faith: Pray the gay away

At a recent Association for Baha'i Studies conference in Vancouver an
anti-gay presenter was invited to give her pray the gay away spiel.
God these folks are still in the stone age, lol!!!

Here's part of the hand out about her presentation:

By Lynne Schreiber

Lynne Schreiber • Rethinking Same‐Sex Attraction and General
Principles of How to Overcome It
The fact that some people experience same‐sex attraction as unwanted
and take measures to overcome it
remains somewhat hidden from society, including much of the mental
health profession. Shedding light
on this process may be encouraging news to those who struggle with
such attraction. Understanding the
complex factors that commonly shape same‐sex attraction unlocks the
possibility to conceptualize a new
framework for growth.

LYNNE SCHREIBER’s expertise comes not through academic study or
professional years of service, but
through 20 years of struggle and spiritual transformation. The
presenter has also gained much learning
through extensive study of the Bahá’í guidance, Christian materials
and cutting edge research on
overcoming same sex attractions.

General Principles of How to Overcome Same-Sex Attraction
1.Education & Independent Investigation of Truth
2.Support
3.Healing & Growth through Relationships
4.Personal & Spiritual Development

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If you can stomach it the rest of her handout can be found here:

http://revolked2.blogspot.com/2010/08/bahai-faith-is-homophobic-follo...

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Looks as though the Baha'i Faith is officially taking on the same anti-
gay stance that is being preached by some far right Christians. Sad.

Cheers

The Orchestra at the recent National Convention of Bahai’s of India (2010)

More often than not, we see that the National Convention of every
country is an orchestra in which the members to be elected are
predecided. The recently concluded elections to the NSA of India are a
further proof to this principle.

So what exactly happened in this election? Eight members of the
previous assembly were reelected. For the ninth member, it was
declared a tie amongst Mr. Sohail Mohajir, Mr. Sunil Oliyai and Mrs.
Shireen Malahati. It is no coincidence, but selectively all are of
Persian background. The delegates were then asked to break the tie and
elect the ninth member from these three members only. Finally, as
reported, Mrs. Shireen Malahati was elected.

The process by itself was not conducted in a transparent manner and in
a fashion befitting a democratic process of election. There was no
disclosure of how many votes each members received. How many votes did
the 9th member receive? And by how many votes was the tie was broken?
This is a complete violation of a democratic election, in which as
claimed by the Baha’is, the number of votes polled by each member
should be declared too.

By conducting this orchestra the Universal House of Justice has
clearly tried to convey to the Baha’is that “The elections are true
elections because a member like Mr. Sohail Mohajir who is related to
UHJ member, Mr. Payman Mohajir can not be re- elected”. Interestingly
last year too, Mr. Sohail Mohajir was not elected and Mr. Ahmed Ansari
was made the sacrificial lamb and asked to resign to make a way for
Mr. Sohail. Let us see what is the policy of UHJ this year.

The process seems to be one of selection and not election because for
the ninth member all the three members were Persians. The two were
first timers. In this way, the UHJ has given the indication that who
are the tenth and the eleventh member in the waiting list. An
indication to the delegates that if any of these nine members fall
away from the grace of UHJ then whom they should vote for.

A new policy of UHJ, “preparation of pool of names” a hidden way of
nomination of candidates.

The UHJ, through the counselor present in the national convention, has
instructed delegates to prepare a pool of names to whom they can vote.
These pure souls are then asked to write the names of about 20 to 25
members for whom they have to vote. During this so called spiritual
atmosphere the incumbent members keep on moving in front of the
delegates to remind them lest they forget. So it does not take much
effort to understand the preparation of pool of names is nomination of
candidates.

All the NSA members were present during the preparation of pool of
names and during the deepening sessions, the delegates commented upon
the behavior of the outgoing members but with no result.

It is very true that there are some Baha’is who never worked and will
never work for the Faith. What they want is let others work. They can
only order for work and be in the position of authority. One cannot go
against the prescribe norms because this is what the UHJ wants.

A delegate at the National Convention India (2010)

Government of Iran spoilt the Grand Party of UHJ.

The Supreme body of Haifan Baha’is (UHJ) expected death sentence for
Yaran. The judgment of government of Iran spoilt the Grand Party for
the UHJ.

A Report

The Supreme Authority of the Haifan Baha’is, ‘Universal House of
Justice’ (UHJ) has been identified with trying to derive mileage out
of sufferings of followers. Unbelievable but true, this news has been
leaked out from internal sources! The recent sentence of 20 years
imprisonment to the 7 Baha’is, accused of spying in Iran, came as an
unpleasant surprise to the UHJ! While the UHJ was preparing to derive
global mileage, as there were all indications that the government of
Iran would deliver a death sentence, the verdict has spoilt the party
for the UHJ.

Inside sources say that the UHJ cannot digest this reality still. With
planned publicity success on previous occasion, where a young Baha’i
girl (Mona) was sentenced to death in Iran, the UHJ did not expect the
events to turn so distasteful. In the death of Mona, the UHJ spotted a
unique propagation opportunity. Mona Schools, Mona Teaching Projects,
Mona Classes, Mona Funds etc spread in her memory all over the world!
It was like celebrations at the death of a small kid.

Such spirit is unique to the teachings of the Baha’i Faith, strictly
governed by the UHJ. While other religions and societies would prefer
to observe mourning and try to overcome unpleasant memories, the UHJ
prefers to campaign for Baha’i beliefs on such occasions.

There are reports that UHJ even steps out and maneuvers situations to
worsen the crises. Directions are forwarded to believers under
investigation, to challenge authorities, admit and support violations
of law of land. The innocent followers, enthused by such messages,
continue the course of conflict with the authorities. Little do they
realize the repercussions and the fact that they are being used as
pawns. Pity the innocent followers!

The UHJ has also been accused on other occasions of dumping-off
follower, when it does not see a potential. The UHJ follows the policy
of “USE AND THROW”. Take the example of Mr. Timur who is a respectable
Baha’i who when deported from Uzbekistan for Proselytizing, was
declared an Iranian Agent by the mouth pieces of Universal House of
Justice, ‘Muslim Network for Baha’i Rights’.

Insiders say that the entire UHJ is run with secrecy and shrewdness
that would put to shame the intelligence of the best of countries! It
is not a surprise that insiders fear to speak out against the UHJ or
the Faith due to fear of reprisals.

Shocking disclosure by “BAHA’I NEWS INDIA”

The recent monthly circulation of Indian Baha'is, The BAHA’I NEWS
INDIA, ISSUE VII JULY 2010 has revealed shocking facts, through an
article titled “Preparations of Government of India Census 2011”,
These are summmarised as under :

1.      There have been rigorous conversion activities over the past fifty
years by the Baha’i Faith.

2.      These conversions was accelerated with the construction of the
Lotus Temple at Delhi and with the visits of Hands of the Cause Dr.
Rahmatulláh Muhájir, and Amatu'l- Bahá Ruhiyyih Khánum.

3.      Though the Baha’i records of the data on Baha’i population shows
that one time it had crossed two millions yet the Census of India
reports of 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 show only a fraction of the total
number Baha'is throughout the country. This means that the census
department of India fumbled four times to give accurate number of
Baha'is. Just to cite an example, Baha’i census figures in 1991 was
5575 and in 2001 it was 11,324 against 2.2 millions claimed by the
Baha’i administration.

4.      Through the article we understand this is largely due to illiteracy
and lack of distinct identifying characteristics of rural Indians.
Does it not mean that conversions were done deceptively without an
individual ever knowing that he has accepted the Baha’i Faith? Does it
also not indicate that the Baha'is have been targeting rural Indians
(mostly in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh) for the past so many
years?

5.      The article suggests that Baha’i Faith members display Baha’i Faith
identification stickers in their houses so that the official GOI
census official can enter the religious identity accurately. This is a
very big accusation against both the individual being interviewed and
the GOI census official! Are both these so gullible that one will
forget to declare his allegiance to the Baha’i Faith and the other
will record it based on stickers/posters on the wall! Is it not some
sort of racist discrimination practiced by the Baha’i Faith governing
body, many of them being of Iranian origin. Should we tolerate such an
assessment of our fellow countrymen!

6.      The article suggests that the Baha’i Faith machinery will attempt
to contact government officials from highest level down to Panchayat
level. Is this not some sort of influencing the government officials
in performance of their duty? Should not serious action be taken
against the Baha’i Faith for this?

7.      Lastly, the article silently threatens the readers that giving
wrong information to the census department is punishable!. Do we need
to learn this from scoundrels who have always used deception to
inflate numbers, perform conversion activities and get government
concessions? In fact the action should be taken against the Baha’i
administration for misguiding the world since last so many years.

AT THE END, CAN BAHA’I ADMINISTRATION EXPLAIN WHY THE NUMBER OF LOCAL
SPIRITUAL ASSEMBLIES MENTIONED IN BAHA’I WORLD [VOLUME XVIII
(1979-1983)] IN INDIA WERE MORE THAN 10,000 WHILE THE PRESENT NUMBER
OF ASSEMBELIES IS ONLY 600 - WHICH IS JUST 6%. WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR
THIS GROSS EXAGGERATION - THE CENSUS DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
OR THE BAHA’I ADMINISTRATION THEMSELVES ?

Dear readers, I have worked for Baha'is for many years. Never even in
their exaggerated record the Baha’i population reached even the figure
of 20,000. Everybody at the top is absolutely convinced that there is
gross exaggeration in the Baha’i population in India and elsewhere in
the world, but nobody wants to accept publicly because of fear of
sanctions from the Universal House of Justice. Moreover the Baha'is
claim that 40% of world Baha’is resides in India, which is just 11324.
Is it not easy now to assess World Baha’i Population? Let someone also
open the can of worms on authentic world Baha’i population!

By
FORMER MEMBER OF NSA OF BAHA’IS OF INDIA

The Orchestra at the recent National Convention of Bahai’s of India (2010).

More often than not, we see that the National Convention of every country is an orchestra in which the members to be elected are predecided. The recently concluded elections to the NSA of India are a further proof to this principle.

So what exactly happened in this election? Eight members of the previous assembly were reelected. For the ninth member, it was declared a tie amongst Mr. Sohail Mohajir, Mr. Sunil Oliyai and Mrs. Shireen Malahati. It is no coincidence, but selectively all are of Persian background. The delegates were then asked to break the tie and elect the ninth member from these three members only. Finally, as reported, Mrs. Shireen Malahati was elected.

The process by itself was not conducted in a transparent manner and in a fashion befitting a democratic process of election. There was no disclosure of how many votes each members received. How many votes did the 9th member receive? And by how many votes was the tie was broken? This is a complete violation of a democratic election, in which as claimed by the Baha'is, the number of votes polled by each member should be declared too.

By conducting this orchestra the Universal House of Justice has clearly tried to convey to the Baha'is that “The elections are true elections because a member like Mr. Sohail Mohajir who is related to UHJ member, Mr. Payman Mohajir can not be re- elected”. Interestingly last year too, Mr. Sohail Mohajir was not elected and Mr. Ahmed Ansari was made the sacrificial lamb and asked to resign to make a way for Mr. Sohail. Let us see what is the policy of UHJ this year.

The process seems to be one of selection and not election because for the ninth member all the three members were Persians. The two were first timers. In this way, the UHJ has given the indication that who are the tenth and the eleventh member in the waiting list. An indication to the delegates that if any of these nine members fall away from the grace of UHJ then whom they should vote for.

A new policy of UHJ, “preparation of pool of names” a hidden way of nomination of candidates.

The UHJ, through the counselor present in the national convention, has instructed delegates to prepare a pool of names to whom they can vote. These pure souls are then asked to write the names of about 20 to 25 members for whom they have to vote. During this so called spiritual atmosphere the incumbent members keep on moving in front of the delegates to remind them lest they forget. So it does not take much effort to understand the preparation of pool of names is nomination of candidates.

All the NSA members were present during the preparation of pool of names and during the deepening sessions, the delegates commented upon the behavior of the outgoing members but with no result.

It is very true that there are some Baha'is who never worked and will never work for the Faith. What they want is let others work. They can only order for work and be in the position of authority. One cannot go against the prescribe norms because this is what the UHJ wants.

A delegate at the National Convention India (2010)