BAHAI Tactics and Techniques

\"Slanderous Vilification\" = The Baha\'i Technique - Ad Hominem, Libel, Slander, Demonize, Scapegoat, Ostracize, Shun, Banish, Backbite, Defame, Vilify, Discredit, Smear, Revile, Suppress, Attack, Bully, Intimidate, Threaten, Malign, Blackball, Deceive, Coerce, Silence, Harass... etc., etc.... CAUTION NON-BAHAIS

1. As far as possible they hold back from responding
2. Then they claim no knowledge of the given issue by feigning ignorance
3. After the exposer has exposed they will try to divert to secondary and totally peripheral and irrelevant side-issues
4. The exposer is then painted as someone with an axe to grind, biased, deluded (while they, the Baha’ism, still have not responded to the main issue exposed)
5. Next they relate mental instability and insanity to the exposer, i.e. shoot the messenger
6. Then, the last tactic, is to wheel out several dubious personas on the scene who claim to be neutral non-Baha’i observers who then begin attacking the exposer as well as the issue exposed while supporting the Baha’is and their issues as so-called non-Baha’is

Quote

http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/technique.htm
Professor Juan Cole, University of Michigan, June 12, 1998:

\"Let me ask you why in the world you think that I would risk my professional reputation by publicly stating falsehoods? ...The very technique of the more glaze-eyed among these people is to unbearably bully a Baha\'i whom they don\'t like, use unjustified threats of declaring him or her a CB [Covenant Breaker (heretic)] to silence the individual, and if the person will not be silenced, then to depend upon the gullibility of the Baha\'is in refusing to listen to any victim\'s story because, of course, the Baha\'i institutions are infallible and divinely guided and could never do anything wrong. It is a perfect racket. Of course, this technique of making liberals go away has been enormously successful, and ex-Baha\'i liberals have no credibility with the remaining Baha\'is nor do most of them have any energy to continue to make a case, either to the Baha\'is or the outside world, for the incredible abuses that go on inside this organization ostensibly committed to tolerance!\"

http://www.fglaysher.com/bahaicensorship/Cole10.htm

Professor Juan Cole, February 23, 1999:

\"There is nothing to be puzzled by. Right wing Baha\'is only like to hear the sound of their own voices (which are the only voices they will admit to being \"Baha\'i\" at all). Obviously, the world is so constructed that they cannot in fact only hear their own voices. They are forced to hear other voices that differ from theirs. This most disturbs them when the voices come from enrolled Baha\'is or when the voices speak of the Baha\'i faith. The way they sometimes deal with the enrolled Baha\'is is to summon them to a heresy inquiry and threaten them with being shunned if they do not fall silent. With non-Baha\'is or with ex-Baha\'is, they deal with their speech about the faith by backbiting, slandering and libeling the speaker. You will note that since I\'ve been on this list I have been accused of long-term heresy, of \"claiming authority,\" of out and out lying (though that was retracted, twice), of misrepresentation, of \'playing fast and loose with the facts,\' and even of being \'delusional.\' I have been accused of all these falsehoods by *Baha\'is*, by prominent Baha\'is. I have been backbitten by them. This shows that all the talk about the danger a sharp tongue can do, all the talk about the need for harmony, for returning poison with honey, for a sin-covering eye, is just *talk* among right wing Baha\'is. No one fights dirtier than they when they discover a voice they cannot silence and cannot refute....

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