Three or four Baha'is were killed by the Persians for ridiculing their religious ceremonies

These sectarians (of Baha'u'llah), though long resident at Baghdad, had not hitherto openly professed the new creed, but during the last Mohurrem they attracted the ill-will of true Shiahs by ridiculing the ceremonies usual with the latter at that season, and three or four of their number have since lost their lives in encounters with the Persians.

The Babi and Baha'i Religions 1844-1944 Some Contemporary Western Accounts edited by MOOJAN MOMEN M.A., M.B. GEORGE RONALD, Publisher, page 267