Increasingly using Reality as a vehicle for the promotion of his own ideas, Dyar was still ready to give space to alternative viewpoints related to the Baha’i movement, no matter how idiosyncratic. Thus, the lone American Azali, August J. Stenstrand was able to find a platform for his views, and Edward J. Irvine was able to promote “Red Bahaism” or “Irvinism.” Seemingly a rather pathetic figure who gained no adherents for his “reformed” religion, Irvine was soundly rejected by both the Baha’is and the communists whose tenets he sought to combine. Space was also given to those whom mainstream Baha’is regarded as violators of the Covenant such as Ameen Fareed, Ibrahim Kheiralla, and the promoters of the Kheirallaite ‘Unitarian Behai’s Movement.’
Few mainstream Baha’is continued contributing to Reality after its evident heterodoxy became established.
(From Iran East and West/Reality Magazine: Editorship and Ownership of an American Bahá’í Periodical)
(From Iran East and West/Reality Magazine: Editorship and Ownership of an American Bahá’í Periodical)
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