Solidarity stand with Egyptian Bahaai's

Activists are holding a stand in front of the State Council in Dokki, Saturday 16 December, 10am, in solidarity with Egypt's Bahaai minority, who are suffering state descrimination against them, that includes refusing to issue any official documents to them, since Mubarak's "secular" government requires the religion of the citizen to be mentioned on his/her ID cards. However, the Interior Ministry's computer can only process three entries: Muslim, Christian, Jew.

Bahaai's cannot issue birth and death certificates, ID cards, or any govt document, since the Interior Ministry does not recognize they exist.

اذا كنت تر�ض التمييز الديني، اذا كنت تؤمن بحقوق المواطنة، اذا كنت تنادي بالتغييــر الجذري ووطن عادل لجميع أبنائه
شاركنا الوق�ة التضامنية ضد التمييز
السبت 16 ديسمبر 2006 - العاشرة صباحا - مجلس الدولة
ندعوكم لمساندة المواطن البهائي المصري حسام عزت محمد موسى
مواليد 22 يناير 1965
المهنة مهندس
الديانة بهائي
بطاقة شخصية رقم 5120 الصادرة عام 1995
من حق الأستاذ حسام استخراج شهادات ميلاد لابنائه وبناته المصريين البهائيين

For Background on the subjet, check EIPR's statement...

Comments

[egyptian bahai]

dear hossam
thank u very much for courage in writing about bahai right
god blessing u
greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeting
Egyptian bahai

[randa elhamamsy]

حان الوقت ودقت الأجراس لكى ينطق صوت الحق ويصرخ من أجل الحق الإنسانى ويأخذ كل ذى حق حقه.كل الإحترام والتقدير لكل صوت يطالب بالحق الإنسانى لكل إنسان يعيش على هذه البسيطة، شكراً وشكراً لصاحب هذا الضمير الحى.
بهائية مصرية حتى النخاع

The time has come for the bells rang and the voice of right and the whole screaming for human right and take everyone his right. All respect and appreciation for all the calls human right of every person living on this planet, you and thank you for the conscience of this neighborhood.
Egyptian Baha'i even marrow

[ajiszs]

http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061215-092826-3132r

[Ayman Abdellatief]

What about people who have no religious affliation? Since when do you have to have a religious affliation to be considered in existence?

[Kianoosh]

Ayman, exactly! This is the real issue of the case. The government is worried about inherently "accepting" the Baha'i Faith as an independant religion (something Egypt had already done 90 years ago) instead of tackling the real human rights violation, which is the fact that you can't legally be a citizen of Egypt if you're not Muslim, Christian or Jew. As a Baha'i, of course I already know my religion is separate from Islam. I don't need these people in Egypt or anywhere else to tell me about it. I can figure out my religion for myself. It's not their business. But when they deny my Baha'i friends in Egypt the right to even be a citizen, when they are as Egyptian as anyone else, that's when it's a human rights violation.

Egypt and the rest of the middle east needs to figure out they want to handle this. Unfortunately, most moderate voices are not heard. Anyone with a rational mind will come to the same conclusion you did, Ayman. I'll repeat your incredibly intelligent question "Since when do you have to have a religious affliation to be considered in existence?"