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Differences and divisions
Haifa Baha’ism (led by the universal house of justice) denies the existence of and branches and groups in the Baha’i community. Based on the same model, Moojan Momen ignores the existence of the reformist Baha’i group.
Although Reformist Baha’ism started its activities on August 19, 2004 A.D., but its beliefs and principles are rooted in the beliefs of Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Shanler and other early Baha’is; whom they were hit by slanders and rude labels because of not accepting the biased and fundamentalist views and interpretations of the Baha’i teachings written by Shoghi Effendi‘s family and close relatives announced and declared as false and fake by Dr. Einworth Mitchell in 1930 A.D.
The Reformed Baha’i group today is one of the largest Baha’i groups and branches. It is larger than the three other groups that the Wilmette-based Baha’i National Assembly faced in court in northern Illinois and failed!
Glaysher is a Baha’i who supports religious pluralism and believes in the separation of religion from politics and is a supporter of individual religion, not institutional religion. He considers the will of 1922 attributed to Abdul-Baha, known as the Testaments, to be fake and considers himself faithful to his 1912 will.
He believes that Baha’ism has been changed into a “sectarian and aggressive organization” with the arrival of Shoghi Effendi. Glaysher considers the Bahaism organization under the leadership of the universal house of justice based in Haifa as a sectarian, power-seeking organization with hidden goals and some irregularities and ambiguities and concealment in the organization’s accounts and financial books having discriminatory rulings against women (despite the claim of the slogan of equality between women and men rights) lacking religious ethics in dealing with educated people and Baha’i thinkers and harassing them.
Glaysher has other important views some of which will be mentioned below.
Some of Glaysher’s speeches
۱- Expressing the true views of Robert Hayden about Baha’ism
۲- “Robert Haydn under a tall window of the Angel Hall” the topic of Glaysher’s speech in the 100th anniversary of Robert Haydn about Robert’s ambivalent and suspicious feelings towards Haifa’s Baha’ism (the universal house of justice).
۳- Censorship in Baha’ism
۴- Glaysher’s interview with two Israeli documentary journalists entitled “Baha’is in my private backyard”
Review of Frederick Glaysher’s critical views
Glasher has many criticisms of Baha’i doctrines and organizations. He has presented some of these opinions directly in the form of various articles, some of which are mentioned below. He has also presented some of them with quotes from other critics on his sites.
Glaysher is the founder of the “Reformist Baha’is” group.
This group believes:
After Abdul-Baha, Baha’ism has been deviated.
Baha’ism hasn’t been a spiritual religion, anymore.
And it has taken an organizational form.
The reformist Baha’is do not accept the authenticity and correctness of the forged wills attributed to Abdul-Baha, and on this basis, they do not consider legitimacy for Shoghi Effendi and dynasty of the guardianship of God’s faith.
They do not believe in the universal house of justice and the organizations under its supervision.
Glaysher believes that reformist Baha’is are one of the biggest and strongest branches in Baha’ism, which have been widely and continuously harassed and intimidated by fanatical supporters of Haifa’s Baha’ism.
He writes in this regard:
“…. My special ability and skill is to discuss and explain about “takfir” and labeling different people in Baha’i circles with titles such as “infidel”, “apostate” and “covenant breaker”, because I have personally witnessed the bigoted and medieval behavior by the members of the Baha’i organization against the victims of Haifa’s Baha’is in the cyberspace and the real one in America and other countries. Since 1996 on, I have been actively pursuing the issue of freedom of speech and thought among the Baha’is. Most American Baha’is do not have the least knowledge about these issues, while some of them have been deceived and brainwashed and they have blindly accepted a distorted view of Baha’i history and teachings without thought like the members of cults….”
Principles of the reformist Baha’i society’s creed stated by Glaysher
Just as people like Ruth White, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab, Julie Chanler and thousands of other Baha’is who protested and resisted against the fake will tablets of Abdu’l-Bahá during the Shoghi Effendi period of time- due to the pressures and persecutions and authoritarian behaviors of the Baha’i organizations in the 1920s – 1940s. The reformist Baha’i community also revived after being oppressed and persecuted (by the Baha’i organization). During all these years, God has preserved the historical documents related to the events for the consideration and lesson of those who are wise and thoughtful.
Despite the efforts of dogmatic and fanatical and fundamentalist groups for hiding and destroying all the views and humanistic interpretation of Abdul-Baha out of the Baha’u’llah’s religion using all the means of slander, defamation, rejection, curse, excommunication, and intimidation, and discrediting the early witnesses and the main writers of the Baha’i faith and the early Baha’i believers, the authentic reformist Baha’i movement remained, resisted with difficulty and testified to the oneness of God, the unity of human society, the unity of the basis of religions and the potential desire of humanity for peace and brotherhood!
Ruth White, Ahmed Sohrab and Julie Shanar’s books and works and writings have kept this view alive. However, the encounters and conflicts of the last 50 years within the Baha’i community have made several thousands of Baha’is aware of the extent of distortions and actions of the officials and guardians of the Baha’i faith for the purpose of leadership and exploitation, material and worldly profiteering and apparent power seeking.
