Open Letter (Part 1 of 5)

In the second half of 2007, a group of students and followers of Master Ilia “M” Ramollah, signed and issued an open letter to “the people all around the world who care about justice and freedom” and "all righteous leaders” for describing what happened to them and to their Master. The letter was published in Persian language in a plenty of human activist websites and newspapers including Shahrvand (published in Canada, USA, and Germany), Kayhan (London), Iran Star, Nimroz, etc. Some parts of the letter were also broadcasted in some interviews on Voice OF America (VOA), Farda Radio, and other radios.
The translation of the Open Letter is as follows:

Open Letter (Part 1)

To: The people all around the world who cares about justice and freedom and to all righteous leaders

After years of pressure, hostility and threat, Master Fattah, known as Ilia “M” was finally arrested on May 27th, 2007 and was taken into section 209 of Evin prison. He was arrested by one of the most devious Iranian security organizations, called “The Department of Anti-Religions and Cults” (also known as “Anti-Religions Agency” or ARA).

A warrant to arrest Ilia “M.”’ was issued based on the view points of some religious dignitaries, according to ARA. It owed the fact that the security organization had not been able to make the decision itself for a few years because of the extensive support and resistance of Master’s devotees. However, after a few months of press invasions, which ignited and led by ARA and its mediators in an Iranian extremist newspaper and peaked in winter 2006, the members of a religious meeting made the final decision. The meeting consisted of some of the most prominent religious personalities and clergymen and as ARA claims, decided to arrest Master Ilia “M.” on an appropriate date and time, unexpectedly for his students/followers.

Some told and untold charges against Ilia were as follows:
“religious heresy, Christian orientation/persuasion, spiritual pluralism propagation, conspiracy against the Islamic regime, religious degenerating, strive for unifying Islam, Christianity, and Judaism, spreading spiritual liberalism, and American Islamism”. And also some other typical accusations which has usually been misused in the similar cases: “blasphemy, anti-regime propagandas, and struggling against national security by establishment of mystical and mysterious organizations and by making a new cult (called Iliaism)”.

But in fact, his only crime is: resistance against barbaric Islam, violent religiosity, and semi-Al-Qaeda cultural extremism (the extremism which presented Islam and Koran to the world with the worst possible face); or propagating liberal spirituality and liberated spiritualism, opposing to congealed and congealing religious interpretations, and explicating Koran in “a different point of view”.