Endorsing Western rule in the East under the rubric of "obedience to rulers"

Bahai leaders, however, have had very little to say about imperialism and the dominion of the West, and tended to endorse Western rule in the East under the rubric of “obedience to rulers”. Orientalism being the dominant apparatus for relaying notions about the East in the era of Empire, depictions of Islam as a backward, stagnant element in eastern societies certainly attracted Western Bahais.

(What Is Bahai Orientalism? by Geoffrey Nash)

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