Talisman investigation

Since the Talisman investigation, there have been no further threats to name online dissidents as covenant-breakers. Instead, three such critics have been summarily dropped from the membership rolls, with the explanation that their “behavior and attitude” disqualifies them. The UHJ has further explained to inquirers about these cases that had these people not been expressing their views publicly, their “misconceptions” would have remained their “personal spiritual problem,” but since they decided to disseminate them on the Internet they had to be removed from the rolls for the sake of the Faith’s unity. According to the accounts of those expelled from the Faith this way, the announcements have come without prior warning that their membership status was in jeopardy. The UHJ, however, has claimed that such actions have only been taken after extensive counseling. In the case of Alison Marshall of New Zealand members of her national community wrote letters of protest, provoking this scolding response from House member Peter Khan:

"But the point is that here it is an indication that something is fundamentally wrong with the Baha'i community in this country in terms of its depth of understanding of the covenant and the authority of the institutions of the Faith. What you take as normal is not normal, but abnormal. What is normal is to have in a Baha'i community a number of Baha'is who are very knowledgable about the covenant who can share their insights with others so that the entire community has a good knowledge of the covenant and follows it. And if that is not done, then what I foresee in the future in New Zealand is more of the same - more vitriol, more foulness, more people rebelling against that crowd of kill-joys in Haifa who call themselves the Universal House of Justice and what do they know and this kind of stuff. That is what I see in the future in this country unless there is sharp, urgent and prolonged attention to a far greater deepening and understanding of the covenant."

That is, the New Zealanders’ sense of injustice at their countrywoman’s sudden expulsion is seen as wrong and abnormal, and that loyalty to the supreme governing body entails seeing all of its decisions as right and just. Unlike those excommunicated as covenant-breakers, adherents dropped from membership are not shunned, but are to be treated as any other non-Baha’i.

https://www.angelfire.com/ca3/bigquestions/enemies.html