Bibliography: BIB36603

Key	BIB36603
Reference type	Journal Article
Title	Moral Panic and Power : The Means of Legitimisation of Religious Intolerance & Human Rights Violation against the Bahá’ís in Iran
Journal	Religion & Human Rights
Author	Moinipour, Shabnam
Year	2018
Date	2018
Epub date2	08 August 2018
Issue	2
Volume	13
Abstract	The case of the Bahá’ís of Iran, the country’s largest non-Muslim religious minority, is a “suspended” genocide and hence alarming. The human rights violations against the members of the Bahá’í community have been designed in such a way to draw as little international attention as possible. It is designed to eliminate slowly rather than to eradicate abruptly. Since its inception in 1979, the Islamic Republic has actively pursued the policy of Bahá’í persecution. This paper focuses on one aspect of the tactics used by the Iranian regime to violate the human rights of the Bahá’í community in Iran. To do so, moral panic theory and Foucault’s power discourse have been used to offer an analysis of the Bahá’í persecutions as an underlying feature of Iran’s domestic policy of othering, religious intolerance and Shi’a supremacy.
Language	English
Keywords	PERSECUTION; IRAN; GENOCIDE; HUMAN RIGHTS; FOUCAULT, MICHEL; MORAL PANIC THEORY
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1163/18710328-13021157
Pages	179–212
Legal note	11.