These Baha'is were expelled on the grounds that they disobeyed the Baha’i leadership, while others became agnostics or nominal Muslims.

A number of these graduates (Baha’is who entered the American University of Beirut) were expelled on the grounds that they disobeyed the Baha’i leadership while others became agnostic or nominal Muslims.

(Footnote 7, The Iranians of AUB and Middle Class Formation in the Early Twentieth-Century Middle East, Farzin Vejdani, Department of History, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada)