Comments on: Curtains to Curtains! The New Path http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/ Travelling Light Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:11:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Valerie http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-329 Valerie Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:53:55 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-329 Thank you... thank you... thank you! I don't know what more to say. Every now and then one of your posts just blows me away and makes me want to forward it on to everyone I know....This is one of those posts. Thank you… thank you… thank you! I don’t know what more to say.

Every now and then one of your posts just blows me away and makes me want to forward it on to everyone I know….This is one of those posts.

]]> By: Thelma http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-328 Thelma Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:40:08 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-328 Thank you. It is wonderful the way you draw these comparisons - the East and the West -Iran and the U.S. and London - 160 years ago - the critical need to remove the barriers hindering the progress of women in society - the latest message of The Universal House of Justice to Iran reference the progress of women in that country - prerequisites for peace and justice the world over. This universal spiritual truth is infinitely precious. Thank you. It is wonderful the way you draw these comparisons - the East and the West -Iran and the U.S. and London - 160 years ago - the critical need to remove the barriers hindering the progress of women in society - the latest message of The Universal House of Justice to Iran reference the progress of women in that country - prerequisites for peace and justice the world over. This
universal spiritual truth is infinitely precious.

]]> By: Wendi Momen http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-326 Wendi Momen Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:44:22 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-326 Thanks for your comments! No word is missing in the text - the first to believe in the Bab was Mulla Husayn, who was having difficulties in Khurasan. Thanks for your comments!

No word is missing in the text - the first to believe in the Bab was Mulla Husayn, who was having difficulties in Khurasan.

]]> By: Barney http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-325 Barney Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:09:55 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-325 Excellent piece, Wendi. Many thanks for comparing and contrasting what was going on in the US and in Iran - and for showing that we still have a way to go before we can claim that there is genuine equality between women and men, whether in Iran or in the US. Excellent piece, Wendi. Many thanks for comparing and contrasting what was going on in the US and in Iran - and for showing that we still have a way to go before we can claim that there is genuine equality between women and men, whether in Iran or in the US.

]]> By: Nicholas Sanders http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-324 Nicholas Sanders Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:19:40 +0000 http://wendimomen.com/2008/06/27/curtains-to-curtains-the-new-path/#comment-324 Wendi I suspect that a word is missing from the following paragraph: In Iran, just a few weeks before this, in June of 1848, the followers of the Bab faced major challenges. The Bab was imprisoned by the government for spreading His teachings; the first to believe in Him was also in difficulty. Fatimih’s fiery talks from behind the curtain had aroused the fury of the clerical leadership and she was persecuted by them. She had even been accused of killing an uncle who had opposed her new religion and she had spent much time under arrest. The Bab sent out a message for his followers to gather at a conference to move things forward: it was time to establish the religion of the Bab independently of its Islamic roots, to proclaim its new laws and to embed its new principles. Do you not mean to say "the first *woman* to believe in Him"? Nick Wendi

I suspect that a word is missing from the following paragraph:

In Iran, just a few weeks before this, in June of 1848, the followers of the Bab faced major challenges. The Bab was imprisoned by the government for spreading His teachings; the first to believe in Him was also in difficulty. Fatimih’s fiery talks from behind the curtain had aroused the fury of the clerical leadership and she was persecuted by them. She had even been accused of killing an uncle who had opposed her new religion and she had spent much time under arrest. The Bab sent out a message for his followers to gather at a conference to move things forward: it was time to establish the religion of the Bab independently of its Islamic roots, to proclaim its new laws and to embed its new principles.

Do you not mean to say “the first *woman* to believe in Him”?

Nick

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