The Baha’i Writings make clear that the end of the predominance of national sovereignty is at hand. According to the Muslim who is featured in this story in the Christian Science Monitor, the concept of an Islamic State is dead as well. -gw

Iran and Saudi Arabia both claim to be Islamic states, but to each other they are heresies, he adds. So what does Islamic mean?

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p01s01-usgn.html

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Baha’u'llah enunciated a new ethic, set a new standard.

The call of Bahá’u’lláh is primarily directed against all forms of provincialism, all insularities and prejudices. If long-cherished ideals and time-honored institutions, if certain social assumptions and religious formulae have ceased to promote the welfare of the generality of mankind, if they no longer minister to the needs of a continually evolving humanity, let them be swept away and relegated to the limbo of obsolescent and forgotten doctrines.

The World Order of Bahá’u’lláh

Author: Shoghi Effendi