why do you think people hate the baha'i faith so much?

now, I've been looking through Baha'i themed questions, and videos on you tube, and other websites, and i always see a christian or a Muslim, insulting and demeaning the Baha'i faith, for me, as a declared Baha'i, this disturb es me, are there any ways there could be punishments for people that insults others faith on websites like answers, you tube, and etc...

I challenge you to find ANY religion that some other religion doesn't hate. You can't because it doesn't exist. I agree that it's stupid to HATE an entire group just because they don't agree with you (it's one thing to debate the differences, and another to condemn the believers), but you see it here everyday.

Where I'm from, many people respect the Bah?'? Faith. It could be that you're looking too closely at YouTube and other on line commentary, which doesn't always attract the greatest thinkers of our age. I'm a Christian, and I respect the Bah?'?s. I have friends who belong to this faith. I have a book of Bah?'? prayers, and I've used it on many occasions.

Most people don't even know what it is. It's like trying to talk to someone about flan gong.

I don't think most people hate the Baha'i Faith; I think it's simply a quirk of the Internet medium. I see it as a conglomeration of a couple of issues:

1) Naivety. Most people are not familiar with the Faith, and some approach it with fear and hostility instead of intellectual curiosity. In its baser forms, Naivety becomes ignorance, then willful ignorance, and that begets hostility.

2) The Faith is revolutionary in its religious ideas, and challenges some of the central ideas that humans have placed upon other major religions such as Christianity and Islam. That can be threatening to adherents of other religions who see theirs as the perfect, "final" religion. Taken to extremes this leads Christians to see Baha'is as the anti-Christ movement and to Muslims as heretical challengers to Muhammed's claim as Seal of the Prophets.

3) The anonymity of the Internet emboldens people to say some ignorant, hateful, vicious things because they can get away with it. 99% of the people here wouldn't say those things to your face. The Internet is also full of immature teenagers and troublemakers who have nothing better to do with their time.

Do not let the hatred you see discourage you. As Iran is finding out, attempts to eradicate the Baha'is only lead to further dissemination of our message. And remember what 'Abdu'l-Baha has said: "Pollute not your tongues by speaking evil of another. Recognize your enemies as friends, and consider those who wish you evil as the wishers of good. ...You must consider your enemies as your friends, look upon your evil-wishers as your well-wishers and treat them accordingly. Act in such a way that your heart may be free from hatred. Let not your heart be offended with anyone. If some one commits an error and wrong toward you, you must instantly forgive him."