Peter Khan warns the believers in North America

The first sort of fear which Peter Khan inspires in his speech is a fear of people, a sense of danger posed by flesh and blood human beings. In his address, Peter Khan warns the believers in North America that we are threatened by men and women within our own communities. He says that "dangerous forces" and "insidious influences" are at work within society at large. But the greatest danger comes not from outside the faith, he explains, but from Baha’is themselves. He tells us that "nefarious elements" menace the faith and "seek to undermine it from within." He quotes Shoghi Effendi warning of "the far more dangerous attacks, the insidious attacks of... people inside the Faith who have no real attachment to the Cause."

(Brendan Cook)

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