Three Moroccan Arabs who are members of the Bahai faith have been sentenced to death as “heretics,” it was announced here today. A statement by the Minister for Moslem Affairs issued today charged that the Bahai movement “is in league with Zionism,” and accused the three victims of having “worked in the interests of Zionism.”
The daily newspaper Maroc Information declared here that “the Bahai movement makes common cause with Zionists” and alleged that the adherents of the faith constitute “a Zionist instrument for the destruction of the Arab world.” The Bahai movement maintains two shrines in Israel, one at Haifa and another at Acre. The headquarters of the international organization of Bahai, managing the worldwide affairs of this universal religion, are located at Haifa.
(A Cairo dispatch to London this weekend reported that three men were hanged in Egypt on charges of “spying for Israel.” Two of the men were Egyptian-born Armenians and the third was an Egyptian, the dispatch stated. The men were arrested two years ago and received their death sentences last year.)
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