What happened at an Egyptian check point

[arthra]

"Whenever I tried to speak, they would just attack me, calling me an infidel, insisting I should be a Muslim. At one point, one of the officers said that I would need to convert to Islam. He said what I was doing, I would go to hell, and he kept pushing that I should be Muslim.

One of them was a little bit older and was trying to prove to me that I know nothing about my religion. He asked me what I knew about the Baha’i calendar. When I tried to respond, again they said there was no religion called Baha’i. They insisted, not giving me advice, …

Finally, one of them pushed me. He put his hand on my shoulder and he said “This is wrong. This is not right,” and he started pushing me.

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Interview with Bahaa Ibrahim - The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy

 

[Marcialou]

This is how genocide begins. It starts with harassment, and if left unchecked, can lead to full scale ethnic/religious "cleansing". The irony here is that Baha'i is a monotheistic faith that believes all religions come from God. It speaks positively of Mohamed.

Ibrahim's experience is one where one might call out, "Oh God, save me from your followers."