Baha'i Population in India - A Report

I-During my time as a Baha'i, I saw potential converts lied to by Baha'is regarding the membership of the Faith. The Baha'is, especially the Baha'i leadership, have always grossly inflated the 'official' numbers in order to present an inaccurate picture to the world (as well as toindividuals considering conversion) and to make the Faith seem much more successful and influential than it really is. The Faith is really a 'footnote' religion, in my view, and all the peace/race unity statements and p. r. in the world will not change this.…I do not know how to solve the above problem, except to be completely honest and open to the public and to people who may be interested in the Faith. It does little good to 'hide' things regarding the Faith that may be unpleasant or misunderstood, intending to reveal these things later when the new Baha'i has been in the Faith for a few years. If people feel that they've had the wool pulled over their eyes, they will leave or become disenchanted. Believe me, I observedthis phenomenon over and over during my years as a Baha'i.These are just some friendly observations from someone who is familiar with Baha'i matters.Wishing everyone the best.

Shalom Scott

II-Juan Cole (a professor of religious history and studies at the University of Michigan) commented in April 2001 that, since 1968, 50% of the people who entered the bahai faith have left it. 50% is truly a remarkably high number and reveals emphatically that something is indeed wrong about the atmosphere within the bahai faith, once one has declared one's belief and is taken into the fold to be properly censored, coerced, and manipulated....Bahai fanatics online exude the same duplicity and dishonesty the new adherent quickly comes to realize is normative behind the facade of love and brotherhood.The Baha'i census that claim 6 to 7.2 million adherents is -A LIE- A LIE- an actual exaggeration of the real numbers.

Interesting Comment by S. Khare (Bhopal,INDIA)

Dear Sir

Your article about Baha’i census is well written and well researched. It is absolutely true that Baha'i s exaggerate their numbers many fold so as to project that they are accepted by the masses. I feel that the situation is not just in India but must be in every country.

There are a few more reason so as to how the Baha'i s calculate their exaggerated number.

A-Once a Baha’i is registered in their record (By whatever means) he becomes immortal and he never dies. So the Indian Baha’i census has all those Bahais who registered themselves since the time of Abdul Baha and Shoghi effendi.

B-It is a universal phenomenon, every where that Bahais usually signed the card not knowing that it is an independent religion. After his realization he leaves the Faith and he is no more a Bahai. But the Baha’i administration believes that “Once a Baha’i Always a Baha’i”. The process is irreversible.

C-Bahais usually multiply their number many folds thinking that every Baha’i must be married and therefore must be having a wife and few children.

D-Those paid workers in the Baha’i Faith, to justify their salaries and their effectiveness have collected a number of non existing addresses

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