Persecuted in Iran, Baha'is worse off in Iraq

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New Delhi, Sep 7 (IANS) While the rising tide of arrests of Baha'is in Iran and destruction of their cemetery in Shiraz continues to grab headlines, the community - best k**wn in India for their magnificent lotus-shaped marble temple here that is visited by thousands every day - is facing ** less threat to its physical safety in neighbouring Iraq, one of the places of origins of the religion. Spread in small numbers in and around Baghdad, the Baha'is continue to face social exclusion even after the fall of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, whose Baath Party banned the religion in 1970. "One Baha'i woman we interviewed said that after she was freed from the prison of Saddam Hussein's regime, she felt that she had moved from a small prison to a societal one, harsher and more violent from the former," Ali Mamouri, Middle East expert and commentator on religion, told IANS in an e-mail interview from Baghdad when asked if the religious mi**rity is better off in Iraq than in Iran.

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