Newsgroup: it.cultura.religioni.bahai
Titolo: How many Italians does it take? (was: Baha'i Figures)

 Italy. From a demographic point of view this may as well be "zero."
This is odd.  I'm happy to concede that there are few Baha'is in Europe,
relative to Catholics, Orthodox Christians and Evangelicals.  But to
suggest that there may as well be zero seems blatantly biased.
A few years back I visited Deutschland (Germany) and when the feast day
came, I called a number for the Baha'is who put me in touch with the
community in the nearest city (Richtig, da sind nicht grosse Baha'i
gemeinde in alles kleine dorf), Wurzburg.  I doubt most of you English
speakers have been there, since it is a train ride away from Frankfurt,
Munich, Bonn, Berlin, and the other cities that show up on international
maps.
Recently, usenet saw the creation of the first Italian language Baha'i
newsgroup.  Though the English speakers are spread over several
continents, Italian is by and large spoken just in the country of Italy.
 Do the Jains or Parsees have an Italian language newsgroup?  Do the
Sikhs or Shiahs ?
In what other religious community would one presume to only count the
adults?
(snips)
Khoda Hafez!
- Pat
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 - Pat
Khoda Negahdar!
Nima
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probably you know this is wrong! To create a newsgroup you need 
to do an announcement and get at least 100 votes, of these 2/3 in favor
of the creation, in one month. So the creation of this newsgroup shows 
that there are at least 100 persons in favor of it.
Otherwise everybody could create groups about every nonsense!
BTW, numbers don't count, it the unity that counts!
We are at least 7 million in the world, and in every major city 
in europe you may find some of us...
Bye bye, Oliver

 Bye bye, Oliver
Arivederci!
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 Sure, but not the hundreds and thousands that are claimed.
There are many cities in Europe; a dozen in this town, a hundred in
that city and it adds up.  During the World Congress seven years ago I
met Baha'is from Luxembourg and found out that they have their own
language I never had heard of before.  Is your demographer aware that
Luxembourg has a language?  Last week my wife was reading a book whose
author claimed that her mother knew the German and Luxembourg
languages.  My wife, a German, remarked that there was no Luxembourg
language; I replied that there certainly was, even though the
Luxembourgers might be fluent in French, they still had their own
language and it was not Walloon.  But your demographer does not mention
Luxembourg at all in coming to their estimate of no Baha'is in Europe.
I still remember when my eldest child went to kindergarten and I sent
her a note for the teacher the day after the Bab's birthday.  The
teacher sent me a note suggesting that I was pulling her leg and we had
had an Irish holiday of sorts.  I replied that however much of a
jokester I was, the note was no joke.  My daughter came home and told
me that the teacher had asked the kids "who in the class was a Baha'i?"
and my daughter and another girl, Saba, raised there hands.  A lot of
educated people have no idea how many Baha'is there are, and are
predisposed to underestimate.  You can't just call the churches and ask
the preachers.
Your demographers are Americans, aren't they?  Did you know that most
Americans, if they've heard of Poland, imagine it is in Eastern Europe,
rather than Western Europe?
Time to cite your sources, Nimajon.
Khoda Hafez!
- Pat
ko...@ameritel.net
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 in europe you may find some of us...
That's right. I worked 2 years in Germany and I met lots of  beautiful
baha'is with the same purpose.
Gruesse Got, roberto
rob...@DELETETHIStiscalinet.it
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ko...@ameritel.net
Khoda Negahdar!
Nima
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 - Pat
Non ci sono news group in Italiano di Janins (Giainisti religione
indipendente diffusa in India), non Parsees (Parsi zoroastriani religione
indipendente: India e Persia, credo), non Sikhs (India del nord: altra
religione indipendente), non Shiahs (credo che si alluda alla corrente Scita
islamica presente per lo più in Persia e Iraq).
Purtroppo tutte queste denominazioni religiose non hanno un loro news group
in Italiano.
Un carissimo saluto.
                         Michele Amato
ama...@CANCELLAMIRISPONDENDOctonline.it
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