Do the JW's recognize that other relgions are persecuted also...

JH

I wonder what the JW's think about other religions around the world that are persecuted because of Jesus's name....

They aren't the only ones being persecuted.

biddie

JH- yeah- and they do quite abit of "persecuting" too! My Dad is an active participant, always bad-mouthing everyone that isn't a witness! Incredible... Biddie

Lady Lee

yup I recall those little news snippets att he back of the Awake!

but it doesn't really count because they aren't JWs

so says the GB

SWALKER

There was never any real compassion shown for other religions...JW's are the only TRUE christians!!!

Swalker

loosie

Silly JH,

Don't you know nobody else is persecuted but the witness. Those other religions are happily bopping along because the "world is fond of what is it's own".

Ok now before I get lots of posts on this subject I was just joking. I feel like playing the devil's advocate tonight.

blondie

The WTS applies the following, that they aren't being persecuted for the "right" reasons.

(1 Peter 2:19-20) 19

For if someone, because of conscience toward God, bears up under grievous things and suffers unjustly, this is an agreeable thing. 20 For what merit is there in it if, when YOU are sinning and being slapped, YOU endure it? But if, when YOU are doing good and YOU suffer, YOU endure it, this is a thing agreeable with God.

Carmel

Escalating persecution of the Bahá'ís in Iran in 1979 led the Bahá'í International Community to focus its human rights activity on protection of that community. At the direction of the Universal House of Justice, the Bahá'í International Community coordinated a global effort, at both the national and international levels, to bring attention to the arrests, disappearances, executions without trial, and other forms of human rights violations being visited on the Bahá'ís in Iran. The Bahá'í International Community, National Spiritual Assemblies, and individual Bahá'ís, working in concert, took the case to the United Nations system and to the public worldwide, appealing to UN member states to exert pressure on Iran. In 1980, the Sub-Commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities (hereafter the Sub-Commission) passed a resolution condemning Iran for its violations of human rights, mentioning explicitly the violations of the rights of Bahá'ís. This act set in motion a process of review by the UN and its agencies that was still in operation fourteen years later.

As the plight of the Bahá'ís in Iran worsened, more time and resources were devoted to conveying accurate, verifiable, up-to-date information about their situation to the appropriate people and agencies. A branch Bahá'í International Community United Nations Office was established in 1981 near the headquarters of UN human rights activities in Geneva. The Bahá'í International Community office in New York coordinated the human rights efforts under the guidance of the Bahá'í World Centre, and the Geneva office carried out the day-to-day work.

The schedule of human rights work revolved around the annual sessions of the Commission on Human Rights, the Sub-Commission, and the UN General Assembly. Documents attesting to violations of the human rights of Bahá'ís and verifying the religious nature of the persecutions were conveyed regularly to UN officials. Press releases were distributed informing the media of new developments. Three times a year the Bahá'í International Community provided sympathetic governments and experts with updates on the situation of the Bahá'ís in Iran and appealed to them, either directly or through the National Spiritual Assembly of that country, to use the United Nations human rights machinery to exert pressure on the Iranian government. Resolutions condemning the Islamic Republic of Iran for violations of human rights, with specific mention of the Bahá'ís, were passed repeatedly by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (in every year between 1982 and 1993), the United Nations General Assembly (in each year of the period 1985-1990, 1992, 1993) and later sessions of the Sub-Commission (in each year in the period 1980-85, 1987- 1993). These official expressions of concern for the welfare of the Bahá'í community in Iran have continued unabated.

Baha'i World, Vol. 55

fullofdoubtnow

We were aware that other religions got persecuted, but it didn't count as far as we were concerned because they weren't serving jah

ICBehindtheCurtain

Exactly, while speaking to a family member on this matter he actually told me "there is no other group being persecuted like the JW's are, that shows that Satan is attacking Jehovah's people, because he knows the end is near", he was a bit perplexed when I informed him that other christian groups have been and are currently being persecuted for preaching, of course after his brain tossed it a bit he came back with, "ok well, but they are not preaching the "Truth"", sadly the majority of these people don't think outside the JW box, they live in a self created delusion.

IC

Nate Merit

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Do the JW's recognize that other relgions are persecuted also...

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