Comments on: Mona: This Poem Could Set the World on Fire

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:32:38 +0000

In reply to Bob Loug. What a moving story. Thank you so much for posting this!

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:31:13 +0000

In reply to Aaron. Good questions. I also find the whole thing hard to believe.

By: Wendy Scott

Wendy Scott — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:28:51 +0000

In reply to Richard Reid. “A day shall be witnessed by My people,” a Muslim tradition states, “whereon there will have remained of Islam naught but a name, and of the Qur’án naught but a mere appearance. The doctors of that age shall be the most evil the world hath ever seen. Mischief hath proceeded from them, and on them it will recoil.” (The Promised Day is Come)

By: Richard Reid

Richard Reid — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:03:31 +0000

“O concourse of divines! Because of you the people were abased, and the banner of Islám was hauled down, and its mighty throne subverted.” (Baha’u’llah, Epistle to the Son of the Wolf)

By: Julie Jaberi

Julie Jaberi — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:06:50 +0000

Thank you for sending me this reminder of this article from 2017. I became a Baha’i shortly after Mona was executed. At the time I was a Christian Sunday School teacher. I went on to teach Baha’i children’s classes for over 20 years, before and after my own children were born. In retrospect, I’d like to believe I have a connection to Mona that may transcend this world in some way. Such a powerful example of Faith for us all, especially now. To find joy in persecution and execution, truly a noble soul.

By: Rosslyn and Steven Osborne

Rosslyn and Steven Osborne — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 07:06:10 +0000

I have read this account of such a beautiful soul, that I didn’t not know about before. I cried and her smile is so contagious and serene. How much Faith this beautiful child had, I would be so distraught like her mother, but so proud of her strength and her devotion to Baha’u’llah.
God bless you for sharing Mona’s story with me.

By: Seire Toure

Seire Toure — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 03:49:34 +0000

Thank you for sharing Mona’s extraordinary story – what a sacrifice, what courage and grace… for justice and out of love for humanity.

By: md v

md v — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 03:15:15 +0000

Some people fear the light so much that they want to extinguish it by all available means. But in this way, it becomes only brighter and brighter. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. “O SON OF THE SUPREME! I have made death a messenger of joy to thee. Wherefore dost thou grieve? I made the light to shed on thee its splendor. Why dost thou veil thyself therefrom?”

By: Aaron

Aaron — Mon, 19 Jun 2017 00:46:02 +0000

What is it about those Muslim men in Iran that titillates them to first abuse a woman, or a young girl, because of her Religion, and then go on to hang her? Is this how Iranian Muslim men prove their manhood by hanging innocent women, girls, and others? Is there some carnal pleasure to be derived by assaulting the good name of Islam by desecrating Islam this way???

By: Bob Loug

Bob Loug — Sun, 18 Jun 2017 03:18:05 +0000

This brought tears to my eyes…happens every time I read about Muna Mahmudnizhad. When Doug Cameron recorded his hit song, Mona With The Children, I had the honour of MCing a concert for him upon its release. My oldest daughter is named after Muna Mahmudnizhad. She attended Doug’s concert as a few weeks old baby. At the concert, CBC tv interviewed me and asked why we had named our daughter Muna. The story, with Muna in my arms, aired on the evening news the next day.

My daughter Muna is now a medical doctor, on her way to becoming a surgeon.