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Happy Ayyám-i-Há!
#just to be clear Ayyám-i-Há is an intercalary period not a holiday#I just figured that since this is tumblr bringing up intercalary calenders would be like shining a laser at a cat#Bahá'í#Ayyám-i-Há#Calendars
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Is it okay to ride on the coat tails of what’s happening to Jîna Mahsa Amini to point out what’s been happening to Bahá’ís in Iran since the 80s? Bc I have a feeling that there is at least a slight connection here.
Background context on the Bahá’í Faith, as remembered by a single Bahá’í who does not have the emotional energy to go source hunting right now: the Bahá’í Faith, founded in 1844 (originally called the Báb’í Faith, the name changed after April 1863 when Bahá’u’lláh stepped into the role the Báb left for Him), is the newest world religion (yes, even counting Mormonism/the LDS as a separate religion from Christianity), and was founded in Persia. Shiraz and Tehran specifically. A woman I have heard called “The first Feminist of Iran” Tahireh or Tahereh depending on transliteration was an early Báb’í, and she entered a meeting of other early Báb’ís without her hijab to argue that they were, in fact, a new religion and not a sect.
Today, Bahá’ís in Iran are arrested on trumped up charges like “spying for Israel” because that’s where the legislative body of the world wide community is situated, or say, not wearing their hijab correctly, and so on. My personal friends have told me stories of their narrow and in some cases literally deadly escapes from their beloved motherland, and I had a houseguest for a while who completed most of his degree through the Bahá’í Institute for Higher Education, an underground university that was put together because Bahá’ís in Iran are banned from higher education. One child even got thrown out of a private school at age ten or twelve (I believe I read that on IranPressWatch.org in… 2016? 2017?). Graveyards are destroyed. In August of this year, if my sense of time hasn’t completely abandoned me again, the New York Times ran a story about the Iranian government destroying a northern farming village in which most of the year round residents are Bahá’ís—of course, there’s constant denial of the religious motivation—and I can’t go a single Holy Day without hearing about how a friend’s relative or a well known Iranian Bahá’í got arrested for taking the day off from work.
So, yes, protest for the right to choose to cover or not, but remember that it’s not just Muslim woman being forced to wear hijab. Remember that this is targeted.
If you’re ready to cry, check out IranPressWatch.org, which specifically documents the persecution of Bahá’ís in Iran. Other resources included the Baha’i World Newsservice, and BIC.org (Baha’i International Community). Jîna Mahsa Amini may not have been a Bahá’í (though personal connections have now on october 1st revealed her cousin whom she was visiting is), but I have no doubt that the Bahá’í community will rally for her justice—as much as we can. It’s not safe for known Bahá’ís, especially Persian Bahá’ís to actively protest Iran, as the government is looking for any reason to strike any Bahá’ís who have remained. If a Persian Bahá’í is identified as protesting, any family they have in Iran is then specifically targeted on charges of sedition/spying.
Thank you for your time. I’d try to give more information, but I did go to check IranPressWatch to see if there was an article about Jîna Mahsa Amini specifically, and seeing how many arrests there were just this month left me in tears.
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People & countries mentioned in the thread:
DR Congo - M23, Cobalt
Darfur, Sudan - International Criminal Court, CNN, BBC (Overview); Twitter Explanation on Sudan
Tigray - Human Rights Watch (Ethnic Cleansing Report)
the Sámi people - IWGIA, Euronews
Hawai'i - IWGIA
Syria - Amnesty International
Kashmir- Amnesty Summary (PDF), Wikipedia (Jammu and Kashmir), Human Rights Watch (2022)
Iran - Human Rights Watch, Morality Police (Mahsa/Jina Amini - Al Jazeera, Wikipedia)
Uyghurs - Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) Q&A, Wikipedia, Al Jazeera, UN Report
Tibetans - SaveTibet.org, United Nations
Yazidi people - Wikipedia, United Nations
West Papua - Free West Papua, Genocide Watch
Yemen - Human Rights Watch (Saudi border guards kill migrants), Carrd
Sri Lanka (Tamils) - Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch
Afghans in Pakistan - Al Jazeera, NPR
Ongoing Edits: more from the notes / me
Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh/Azerbaijan (Artsakh) - Global Conflict Tracker ("Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict"), Council on Foreign Relations, Human Rights Watch (Azerbaijan overview), Armenian Food Bank
Baháʼís in Iran - Bahá'í International Community, Amnesty, Wikipedia, Minority Rights Group International
Kafala System in the Middle East - Council on Foreign Relations, Migrant Rights
Rohingya - Human Rights Watch, UNHCR, Al Jazeera, UNICEF
Montagnards (Vietnam Highlands) - World Without Genocide, Montagnard Human Rights Organization (MHRO), VOA News
Ukraine - Human Rights Watch (April 2022), Support Ukraine Now (SUN), Ukraine Website, Schools & Education (HRW), Dnieper River advancement (Nov. 15, 2023 - Ap News)
Reblogs with Links / From Others
Indigenous Ppl of Canada, Cambodia, Mexico, Colombia
Libya
Armenia Reblog 1, Armenia Reblog 2
Armenia, Ukraine, Central African Republic, Indigenous Americans, Black ppl (US)
Rohingya (Myanmar)
More Hawai'i Links from @sageisnazty - Ka Lahui Hawaii, Nation of Hawai'i on Soverignty, Rejected Apology Resolution
From @rodeodeparis: Assyrian Policy Institute, Free Yezidi
From @is-this-a-cool-url: North American Manipur Tribal Association (NAMTA)
From @dougielombax & compiled by @azhdakha: Assyrians & Yazidis
West Sahara conflict
Last Updated: Feb. 19th, 2024 (If I missed smth before this, feel free to @ me to add it)
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Bahá'í House of Worship Wilmette, Illinois. Pictures taken of the exterior and interior.
April 2, 2016
Photographer: Lena K Aubrey
#Bahá'í House of Worship#wilmette#illinois#wilmette illinois#architecture#architecture photography#architecture photo#place of worship#photo#photography#lenakatherineaubreyart#lka#lenaaubreyart#lenaaubreyphotography#lkaphotography#lkaart#interior photo#interior photography
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The only presently-existing religions I find to have any really compelling content (I mean emotively compelling, not empirically compelling) are Islam and Shinto. The others just don't do anything for me. As for historical religions, all the old Indo-European systems do at least something for me. Norse, Greek, Roman, Vedic. But modern Hinduism doesn't do anything for me. Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism also don't. Jainism has a little bit going for it; their version of ahimsa is something that I get. What else is there? New age stuff, Wicca? Meh. Mormonism, Bahá'í? Meh. Scientology? Total nope. Idk.
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"Bahá'í" added to religion page.
image: a yellow, hollow star with nine points.
#religion#bahá’í#communication symbol#aac symbol#communication image#aac image#aac emoji#custom emoji
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"We must support the establishment of a single, democratic, secular state in all of historic Palestine"."Listen to Mokhiber's chilling words. Yes, Israel is engaged in an existential fight. At the U.N., there are human rights for everyone but Jews, who are supposed to lay down their arms in the face of a genocidal enemy currently enslaving their people. Mokhiber's phony ‘human rights’ cover is extremely disturbing. He says equality means 21 Arab states, 56 Islamic states and zero Jewish states.
you are so fucking stupid and i can tell this is coming from a place of deep rooted islamophobia. you are equating israel with judaism & equating arabs/muslims (which arent interchangeable) with "the enemy" without any ifs and buts, even though in the last few weeks countless people have explained why that is incorrect.
who is the genocidal enemy currently enslaving whose people? from what i've seen hamas has already released several israeli hostages, all of whom have shared their account of what happened and all of whom made a point to highlight the humanity they were treated with. hamas has offered to release all of the hostages, and israel has refused to accept them. meanwhile, israel has been detaining hundreds and hundreds of palestinians unprovoked, many of whom die without ever being freed. just the in the last few days israel has picked off palestinian civilians off the streets in the west bank. who is enslaving who? just yesterday israel killed more than 400 palestinian civilians in one go. who is committing genocide against who?
and to address your arab states and islamic states—not a single one of those states forbids a person of another faith from living amongst them. you people have such a problem with iran existing and having the sway that it does in the middle east, and even in iran there are non muslims living a normal life. in all of these arab and islamic countries, there are christians and bahá'í and hindus and sikhs and kurds and jews and people from so many other faiths. none of those countries is an ethnostate, which is what israel wants to be.
youre not going to come to me and cry about the UN not advocating for human rights for jews (which in this case means israel) when all they have fucking done is back israel instead of intervening with a stern hand to stop the annihilation of an entire people. maybe because the executive director of the united nations children's fund is married to the chairman of the blackrock investment. which is the largest fund manager for cluster munitions. as in... cluster bombs... which israel is known to use... but yeah sure the un is so totally not at all fully standing behind israel. stupid fuck
#get the fuck outta here. you mfs will not catch me turning on palestine by evoking false sympathy and vilifying arabs#palestine#anonymous#answered
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Here's to religious systems! Your system might be connected to your religious practices, or they could just be meaningful to you! Either way, shoutout to:
Protestant and Catholic systems!
Jewish systems of all kinds!
Sunni and Shia Muslim systems, including hijabis!
Buddhist systems!
Hindu systems!
Sikh, Jainist, Shinto, and Taoist systems!
Wiccan, Pagan, and witchy systems!
Animist and druid systems!
Satanist systems!
Bahá'í and Druze systems!
Zoroastrian systems!
Those who practice traditional or Indigenous religions and spiritualities!
Interfaith systems!
Pantheist systems!
Systems who've gone through religious or spiritual trauma, but practice anyways!
And anyone else I might've missed!
You're all amazing! We love you so, so much! Your faith is incredible!
🖤💜💙💚💛
#I REALLY TRIED MY BEST please someone correct me if i did anything wrong#requests#multiplicity#plural#pluralgang#plural affirmations#actually multiple#actually plural#did#did osdd#osddid#plural community#plural system#plurality#plural positivity#plural pride#system community#system pride#system#sysblr
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More info under the cut!
Jesus Christ (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Bahá'í, Druze, and others)
No story was given
(Note: Given the number of religions he appears in, theres no one version of him to explain- he is often considered a messiah, son of, and/or manifestation of God for humanity, though there are other interpretations)
Lorelei (German):
(note- the linked article refers to Lorelei Rock. Go to "Original Folklore and Modern Myth" for the story)
She's a siren! Her story is that she had a sailor boyfriend and he went out to sea and never returned. Heartbroken, she went to the top of a cliff (now known as Lorelei rock) and threw herself into the sea. Now she beckons sailors to their deaths with her beautiful voice and eats their hearts once they crash upon the rocks.
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US: Finally, after years of supporting the Bahá'í State of Iran and the Levant we have helped overthrow the Iranian government and replaced it with the radical Bahá'ís who won't do anything.
BSIL (pronounced basil): Saluton amikoj, we heard you were being racist so we are launching several missiles at you.
US: These guys are weird but at least they're zionists
BSIL: Saluton, after thousands of years we have located the verse about arson so we will be blowing up israel.
US: YOUR LITURGICAL LANGUAGES ARE PERSIAN AND ARABIC WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS
#BSIL#Bahá'í Faith#linguistics#linguistic#languages#shitpost#linguist shitpost#lingblr#conlang#conlanging#constructed language#conlangs#esperanto#US#us politics#Israel#Palestine
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Catholicism invents new ways to feel bad about being human fr
Horrifying. This is a tangent but have you seen Bahá'í temples? I don't know much about that faith, either, but their temples look nice.
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Holidays 3.20
Holidays
Alien Abduction Day
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
Atheist Pride Day [also 6.20]
Bibliomania Day
Big Bird Day
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Day
Culture Day and Creative Intelligentsia Day (Tajikistan)
Dibber Day (French Republic)
Dogs in Yellow Day
Durham Day (UK)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
Festival of Extraterrestrial Abductions
French Language Day (a.k.a. International Francophonie Day; UN)
Ghode Jatra (Horse Festival; Nepal)
Global Message Makes Me Happy & Healthy Day
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Hufflepuff Pride Day
International Astrology Day
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Kiss Your Fiancé Day
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Legba Zaou (Haiti)
Li-Fraumeni Syndrome Awareness Day
Macaron Day NYC
Mesopotamian/Sumerian Grain Festival (Honoring Ashnan)
Minion Day (Japan)
Mister Rogers Day
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National Cherry Blossom Festival begins (Washington DC)
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Pigeons Return to City-County Building (Ft. Wayne, Indiana)
P320 Day
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Very Hungary Caterpillar Day
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Day
Won’t You Wear a Sweater Day
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World Sparrow Day
Zipper Day
Food & Drink Celebrations
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Crawfish Cravers Awareness Day
Macaron Day
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World Flour Day
3rd Wednesday in March
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Kick Butts Day [3rd Wednesday]
National Carry Out Day (a.k.a. Carry Out Wednesday) [3rd Wednesday]
National Dietician’s Day (Canada) [3rd Wednesday]
National SBDC Day [3rd Wednesday]
Small Business Development Day [3rd Wednesday]
Independence & Related Days
Blackland (a.k.a. Kingdom of Blackland; Declared; 2015) [unrecognized]
Conzorica (a.k.a. Federal Republics of Conzorica; Declared; 2014)
Kirkuk Liberation Day (Iraqi Kurdistan)
Otango Province Anniversary (New Zealand)
Qootärlænt (Declared; 2008) [unrecognized]
Rezaxia (Declared; 2020) [unrecognized]
Tunisia (from France, 1956)
New Year’s Days
Baha’i New Year
Nowruz (New Year) [Day 1, Around Spring Equinox] (a.k.a. ...
Bahá'í Naw-Rúz (Bahá'í)
Naruz (Afghan New Year)
Navruz (Tajikistan, Ukbekistan)
Norooz (Iran)
Novruz Bairam (a.k.a. Persian New Year; Azerbaijan)
Nowrūz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians; California)
Rosicrucian New Year
Festivals Beginning March 20, 2024
Jazz & Rhythms Festival (San Cristóbal de las Casas, Mexico) [thru 3.24]
Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show (Melbourne, Australia) [thru 3.24]
National Cherry Blossom Festival (Washington, DC) [thru 4.14]
Trans-Siberian Art Festival (Novosibirsk, Russia) [thru 4.7]
Feast Days
Alexandra (Christian; Saint)
Apple Magic Day (For Norse Goddess Idunn; Starza Pagan Book of Days)
Big Bird (Muppetism)
Blessed John of Parma (Christian; Saint)
Clement of Ireland (Christian; Saint)
Cuthbert of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint) [maltsters]
Day Sacred to the Goddess Fortuna, the Morrigan, the Norns, the Three Fates, and the Three Mothers (Lakshmi, Parvati, and Sarasvati)
Edward Poynter (Artology)
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day (Pastafarian)
Feast of the Supreme Ritual (Thelema)
Festival For Driving Out All Evils (Inca)
Festival of Isis (Ancient Egypt)
George Caleb Bingham (Artology)
Henrik Ibsen (Writerism)
Herbert of Derwentwater (Christian; Saint)
John Lavery (Artology)
John of Nepomuk (Christian; Saint)
Józef Bilczewski (Christian; Saint)
María Josefa Sancho de Guerra (Christian; Saint)
Martin of Braga (Christian; Saint)
The Martyrs of Mar Saba (Christian; Martyrs)
Michele Carcano (Christian; Saint)
Philo of Alexandria (Positivist; Saint)
Photina and Her Companions (Christian; Martyrs)
Quinquatria, Day 2: Wrestling Day (Pagan)
Spring Harvest Festival (Ancient Egypt; Everyday Wicca)
Wulfram (Christian; Saint)
Xena Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)
Zagmuk (Festival celebrating the Resurrection of Marduk)
Lucky & Unlucky Days
Prime Number Day: 79 [22 of 72]
Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]
Very Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [17 of 60]
Premieres
After Hours, by The Weekend (Album; 2020)
Armchair Apocrypha, by Andrew Bird (Album; 2007)
Avalanche is Better None or Snows You Old Man (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 33; 1960)
Back Off Boogaloo, recorded by Ringo Starr (Song; 1972)
Basic Instinct (Film; 1992)
Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S1, Ep. 34; 1960)
The Book of Thoth (Egyptian Tarot), by Aleister Crowley (Tarot Book; 1944)
Bosko’s Easter Eggs (Happy Harmonies Cartoon; 1937)
Both Sides Now, by Joni Mitchell (Album; 2000)
Cannibal Capers (Disney Silly Symphony Cartoon; 1930)
The Cats Bah (WB LT Cartoon; 1954)
Dumb-Hounded (Droopy MGM Cartoon; 1943)
Duplicity (Film; 2009)
Fractured Friendship (Chilly Willy & Woody Woodpecker Cartoon; 1965)
Hollywood Shuffle (Film; 1987)
Hothouse, by Brian W. Aldiss (Novel; 1962)
I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got, by Sinead O’Connor (Album; 1990)
I Love You, Man (Film; 2009)
The Impossible Possum, featuring Barney Bear (MGM Cartoon; 1954)
Insurgent (Film; 2015)
Knowing (Film; 2009)
Lady Chatterly’s Lover, by D.H. Lawrence (Novel; 1928)
Man of La Mancha (Broadway Musical; 1965)
Meet the Temptations, by The Temptations (Album; 1964)
Neptune Nonsense (Rainbow Parade Cartoon; 1936)
Newman Laugh-O-Grams (Disney Cartoon; 1921)
Noises Off (Film; 1992)
Off to China (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1936)
The Pink Panther (Film; 1964)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (Film; 1981)
The Romance of Betty Boop (Animated TV Film; 1985)
The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Novel; 1850)
Sham Battle Shenanigans (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1942)
Straight, No Chaser, by Thelonious Monk (Album; 1967)
Symphony Hour (Disney Cartoon; 1942)
Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats (Hanna-Barbera Animated TV Film; 1988)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin, by Harriet Beecher Stowe (Novel; 1857)
Wacky Quacky (Phantasies Cartoon; 1947)
What Price Fleadom (MGM Cartoon; 1948)
Wild Things (Film; 1998)
Ye Olde Songs, featuring Farmer Al Falfa (Terrytoons Cartoon; 1932)
Zen in the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel (Philosophy Book; 1948)
Zombeavers (Film; 2015)
Today’s Name Days
Claudia, Wolfram (Austria)
Ivan, Nicet, Pavao (Croatia)
Světlana (Czech Republic)
Gordius (Denmark)
Malve, Malvi, Malviine (Estonia)
Aki, Jaakkima, Joakim, Jooa, Kim, Kimi (Finland)
Herbert, Printemps (France)
Claudia, Wolfram (Germany)
Claudia, Rodi, Rodianos (Greece)
Klaudia (Hungary)
Alessandra,, Claudia (Italy)
Irbe, Made, Magda, Magdalēna (Latvia)
Filomenas, Imgarda, Irma, Tautvilė, Žygimantas (Lithuania)
Joakim, Kim (Norway)
Aleksander, Aleksandra, Ambroży, Anatol, Bogusław, Cyriaka, Eufemia, Klaudia, Patrycjusz, Ruprecht, Wasyl, Wincenty (Poland)
Víťazoslav (Slovakia)
Alejandra, Daniel, Martín (Spain)
Joakim, Kim (Sweden)
Dillan, Dillion, Dillon, Drew, Dru, Dylan, Dylon (USA)
Today is Also…
Day of Year: Day 80 of 2024; 286 days remaining in the year
ISO: Day 3 of week 12 of 2024
Celtic Tree Calendar: Fearn (Alder) [Day 4 of 28]
Chinese: Month 2 (Ding-Mao), Day 11 (Guy-Wei)
Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)
Hebrew: 10 Adair II 5784
Islamic: 10 Ramadan 1445
J Cal: 20 Green; Sixday [20 of 30]
Julian: 7 March 2024
Moon: 82%: Waxing Gibbous
Positivist: 24 Aristotle (3rd Month) [John the Evangelist]
Runic Half Month: Beore (Birch Tree) [Day 11 of 15]
Season: Spring (Day 2 of 92)
Week: 3rd Week of March
Zodiac: Pisces (Day 31 of 31)
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