Questions into Baha'i Faith

[Kaiser_Soze]

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[Kaiser_Soze]

[Kaiser_Soze]

Racism in Baha'i scripture against the Africans

The following statement is said by abdulbaha in "Promulgation of Universal Peace" p.311 and has a highly offensive attitude toward africans.

"If a child is left in its natural state and deprived of education, there is no doubt that it will grow up in ignorance and illiteracy, its mental faculties dulled and dimmed; in fact, it will become like an animal. This is evident among the savages of central Africa, who are scarcely higher than the beast in mental development"

Or in the same book he says:

"If we study human beings such as the aboriginal tribes of central Africa,
who have been reared in complete subjection to nature's rule, we will find
them deficient indeed. They are without religious education; neither do they
give evidences of any advance toward civilization. They have simply grown and developed in the natural plane of barbarism. We find them bloodthirsty,
immoral and animalistic in type to such an extent that they even kill and
devour each other."


This reference is given out of a well known online Bahai source: http://reference.bahai.org/en/t/ab/P...101.html#pg311