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Though the Faith had , from its inception , disclaimed any intention of usurping the rights and prerogatives of the state ; though its exponents and disciples had sedulously avoided any act that might arouse the slightest suspicion of a desire to wage a holy war , or to evince an aggressive attitude , yet its enemies , deliberately ignoring the numerous evidences of the marked restraint exercised by the followers of a persecuted religion , proved themselves capable of inflicting atrocities as barbarous as those which will ever remain associated with the bloody episodes of & Mazindaran , & Nayriz and & Zanjan .