Religion and Nonviolence: Past and Present with Cornel West and Sasha Dehghani

HDS Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy Cornel West and Center for the Study of World Religions Visiting Scholar Sasha Dehghani delivered a talk, "Religion and Nonviolence: Past and Present." The discussion took place during the HDS bicentennial celebration and alumni reunion on April 29, 2017.
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[@maysaffar2422]

Reading the thread under this video, I know now why professor West is no longer at Harvard. The "spiritual blackout" he mentions in his speeches is very well examplified in the thread and the fact that Harvard chased him out. Such a shame. These are such dark times of history....sigh...

[@76footballlover]

Professor Dr. West..they love leaving that out

[@donaldmoderational5338]

There are questions about whether Tahireh, unveiled herself in Basasht conference. She had many Babi opponents in the meeting who did not agree with her declaring the Babi movement as a new religion. In fact there are evidences that her story of unveiling was made up by her Babi enemies to contradict her activities and to disrepute her. Edward Browne a renowned scholar on the Babi-Bahai religion asked Subhi Azal the leader of Azali-Babis in Cyprus , who had attended the Badasht conference, if the unveiling of Tahireh was true. He answered that whenever the veil was moving away from her face, she will move it forward to avoid uncovering her face. I believe the history of unveiling of Tahireh has to be researched as some of the poems that were attributed to her are proved belonging to other poets. However, one should not deny her courage, being a single women among so many men in 19th century Persia.

[@danlewis8019]

Go over the names first with someone who knows how to pronounce them.