Kansas City, Missouri
As a member of the Baha'i Faith I am alarmed to hear of the increasingly deviant efforts by the Iranian government to not only hamper or collapse all other religions in Iran besides Shia Islam - which naturally entails brutal measures against Baha'is - but to also interfere with the very acquisition of knowledge by young people. Not only does Iran seek to eliminate religious diversity but now Iran seeks to punish youth for what their religious leanings are by denying them the academic education needed to compete in this world and support themselves. Not since the great gypsy and Jewish persecutions of Europe 1,000 years ago or the Gestappo mandated cleansing of German society in the 1930's has any nation sought to seize direct control over the very process of learning and withhold education from any person or group the state deems unfit to be educated.
This open letter from Archibishop Desmond Tutu and Jose Ramos-Horta of East Timor (both Nobel Peace Prize winners) will illustrate just how concerned educators and academics around the world are taking these naked violations of human rights.
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