They believe that humanity is one race, that men and women are equal and that all religions and prophets are derived from the same source, God | The Shrine of the Bab, , is located on the slopes of Mount Carmel, making the Bahais one of the many faiths that regard this area as the Holy Land |
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That belief violates the Islamic teaching that God sent many prophets before Muhammad, but none afterward | There are five million worldwide |
The Bahai are discriminated against in some other Muslim countries, where they are far less numerous than in Iran.
29Since 1948 though, Haifa has been located inside the Israeli state that Iran refuses to recognize | Ebadi, a human rights lawyer who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, has been under severe pressure from the Iranian government as she prepares to defend the Bahai group |
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In 2000, 10 Iranian Jews were and sent to jail although they avoided death sentences and were all within three years |
In late December, the police and judicial authorities , seizing her computers and her client files.
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