Ignorance is *not* Bliss

Six men of Iraqi descent who were heading home from doing training for the U.S. military sued American Airlines on Thursday, saying employees detained and publicly humiliated them after another passenger voiced suspicions.

The men, who sued in U.S. District Court in Detroit alleging racial discrimination, say airline employees grounded their Aug. 28 flight from San Diego to Chicago and detained them, believing they were security risks.

The men, some of whom are U.S. citizens, were returning to the Detroit area after training Marines at California's Camp Pendleton on Iraqi culture when another passenger expressed concerns to guards partly because she heard the men speaking Arabic.

You can read the entire AP story here.

"Murder with Impunity"

Try to imagine total exclusion from education, employment, civil society, commerce and worship because your government and society consider your religious beliefs unacceptable. Now imagine that your property may be confiscated, family members disappeared and tortured, and graves of your ancestors destroyed. Hard to imagine, but this is the reality for Bahai's living in Iran.

The Weekly Standard printed a good article describing the despicable and official campaign of persecution endured by Baha'is in Iran, aptly described as "reminiscent of the Nazi Nuremberg Laws."

Let his death not be in vain

May his heroic leadership in war and peace serve not as a cautionary tale, but as a paradigm for change and a brighter future.














Murdered by a Zealot who sought to shape the world according to his religious views: November 4, 1995