Dr Iqbal Al-Gharbi, a psychology lecturer at the Al-Zaytouna University in Tunis said that many peoples across the world were asking for forgiveness for past wrongs, such as the Catholic Church, who asked for forgiveness for its treatment of Jewish people, and France which apologised for the complicity of the Vichy regime. She said that, Muslims, by contrast, usually consider themselves to be the victims and usually innocent of any wrongs. Al-Gharbi said Muslims should reconcile with Christian and Jewish minorities who lived in Muslim countries, and to Africans who suffered in the Arab slave trade. She said they should also reconcile with "small schools of Islamic thought" such as the Ismaili , Baha'i, Alawite and Druze . The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom stated in its 2005 report that Baha'is are repressed in Iran and Egypt , and face execution, imprisonment and discrimination. Forum 18, the Norwegian human rights organisation has also reported discrimination against Baha'is in Muslim-dominated Azerbaijan and Turkey . The Government of Iran maintains that the Baha'i Faith is not a religion but an "espionage establishment", with links to the Israeli , British and American governments. Other Muslims consider Baha'is to be apostates - Muslims who have abandoned their religion - and this justifies discrimination.
Dr Iqbal Al-Gharbi, a psychology lecturer at the Al-Zaytouna University in , said that many peoples across the world were asking for forgiveness for past wrongs, such as the Catholic Church, who asked for forgiveness for its treatment of people, and France which apologised for the complicity of the regime. She said that, Muslims, by contrast, usually consider themselves to be the victims and usually innocent of any wrongs. Al-Gharbi said Muslims should reconcile with Christian and Jewish minorities who lived in Muslim countries, and to Africans who suffered in the Arab slave trade. She said they should also reconcile with "small schools of Islamic thought" such as the , Baha'i, and . The stated in its 2005 report that Baha'is are repressed in and , and face execution, imprisonment and discrimination. Forum 18, the Norwegian human rights organisation has also reported discrimination against Baha'is in Muslim-dominated and . The Government of Iran maintains that the Baha'i Faith is not a religion but an "espionage establishment", with links to the , British and American governments. Other Muslims consider Baha'is to be apostates — Muslims who have abandoned their religion — and this justifies discrimination.
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Tunis
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Jewish
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Vichy
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Ismaili
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Alawite and Druze
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United States Commission on International Religious Freedom
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Iran and Egypt
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Azerbaijan and Turkey
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Israeli
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