| REVISED : FAQ - talk.religion.bahai & alt.religion.bahai -
Usenet - FAQ
Newcomers may confirm that I am the founding proponent
for the formation of talk.religion.bahai by reading in the Usenet
archive
the REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
https://www.faqs.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk/talk.religion.bahai
https://www.faqs.org/ftp/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk/talk.religion.bahai
Talk.Religion.Bahai > MENU - Passed Jan 10 1999 - All Related Documents
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/trbmenu.htm
During the last few years since the formation of talk.religion.bahai in
1999, numerous fundamentalist posters have slandered, libeled, and
maligned
anyone on talk.religion.bahai who does not share their fundamentalist
views
of the Baha'i Faith. Such people have a very long record of harassing
people
on AOL, talk.religion.bahai, talisman9, BeliefNet, and other Internet
discussion groups, which even a glance at the links below will confrim.
The situation has become intolerable and we are reclaiming the
electronic
territory from them by exposing what they have done to others, as
attested
to by roughly a DOZEN people regarding their incessant lying, bullying,
abuse, and deceit:
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck8.htm
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hate16.htm
It is understandable that they would seek to misrepresent their
treachery and further malign and SLANDER anyone opposed
to their medieval tactics.
Given the issues of religious freedom and conscience involved, which
are VERY complicated within the Baha'i Faith, I urge newcomers
to decide for themselves by skimming or reading some of the material
at the links below: Other useful material may be accessed through
The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/
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FG
The Baha'i Faith & Religious Freedom of Conscience
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/
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Shunning > Menu
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Shunning.htm
Compare "The Bahai Technique" - Slander & Shunning
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm
Susan Maneck, Baha'i scholar
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Maneck8.htm
talisman9 "moderator" Steve Marshall - "babytorturer"
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/hate16.htm
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Why I Don't Respond to Fundamentalists
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Why1.htm
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REQUEST FOR DISCUSSION (RFD)
RESULT
unmoderated group talk.religion.bahai passes 218:63
https://www.faqs.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk/talk.religion.bahai
RATIONALE: talk.religion.bahai
The newsgroup talk.religion.bahai is proposed to meet the need for an
open and unmoderated forum for discussion of the Baha'i Faith within
the structure of the Big 8 hierarchies.
The proponents intend that talk.religion.bahai will complement, rather
than supplant, the existing moderated group soc.religion.bahai, and
will provide those without access to alt.religion.bahai the
opportunity to participate. It is noted that the alt.* hierarchy is
less well propagated than the talk.* hierarchy; this has meant that
many people who have voted YES on earlier proposals have been unable
to join discussions on alt.religion.bahai.
CHARTER: talk.religion.bahai
All topics or ideas relevant to the Baha'i faith -- its history,
teachings, theology, etc. -- would be appropriate areas for
discussion.
Talk.religion.bahai fills the need for a fully open and universally
accessible Internet forum about the Baha'i Faith. Postings may take
any point of view with regard to the Baha'i Faith. While this allows
criticism, it also fully opens the door for enquirers to see with
their own eyes and not through the eyes of their neighbors, asking
questions and reading replies from anyone who is interested in their
question.
Readers are asked to observe standard netiquette in their use of this
newsgroup.
Readers are asked to observe Baha'i standards of conduct and not to
start or prolong flamewars in the group, but to focus instead on
articles and threads written in more moderate terms.
The posting of articles not relevant to the Baha'i Faith is
prohibited. Large ASCII graphics, large binaries, pornography, spam,
and any postings of a purely personal or commercial nature are
prohibited. To facilitate viewing in news readers that are not
HTML-capable, HTML-formatted postings are strongly discouraged.
Cross-posting to irrelevant groups is also discouraged, and readers
are encouraged to redirect follow-ups to reduce excessive
cross-posting. Readers may also post articles that have been rejected
>from soc.religion.bahai, so long as they conform to this charter.
END CHARTER.
An older, historical FAQ may be found at
FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions for arb, trb
https://fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/FAQ.htm
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