Posted May 19, 200618 yr Iran eyes badges for Jews Law would require non-Muslim insignia Chris Wattie National Post Friday, May 19, 2006 Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country's Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. "This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis." Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments." The law, which must still be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims. Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth. "There's no reason to believe they won't pass this," said Rabbi Hier. "It will certainly pass unless there's some sort of international outcry over this." Bernie Farber, the chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said he was "stunned" by the measure. "We thought this had gone the way of the dodo bird, but clearly in Iran everything old and bad is new again," he said. "It's state-sponsored religious discrimination." Ali Behroozian, an Iranian exile living in Toronto, said the law could come into force as early as next year. It would make religious minorities immediately identifiable and allow Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims. Mr. Behroozian said it will make life even more difficult for Iran's small pockets of Jewish, Christian and other religious minorities -- the country is overwhelmingly Shi'ite Muslim. "They have all been persecuted for a while, but these new dress rules are going to make things worse for them," he said. The new law was drafted two years ago, but was stuck in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa refused to comment on the measures. "This is nothing to do with anything here," said a press secretary who identified himself as Mr. Gharmani. "We are not here to answer such questions." The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has written to Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, protesting the Iranian law and calling on the international community to bring pressure on Iran to drop the measure. "The world should not ignore this," said Rabbi Hier. "The world ignored Hitler for many years -- he was dismissed as a demagogue, they said he'd never come to power -- and we were all wrong." Mr. Farber said Canada and other nations should take action to isolate Mr. Ahmadinejad in light of the new law, which he called "chilling," and his previous string of anti-Semitic statements. "There are some very frightening parallels here," he said. "It's time to start considering how we're going to deal with this person." Mr. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly described the Holocaust as a myth and earlier this year announced Iran would host a conference to re-examine the history of the Nazis' "Final Solution." He has caused international outrage by publicly calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map." Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, but Tehran believed by Western nations to be developing its own nuclear military capability, in defiance of international protocols and peace treaties. The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is confined to generating electricity. [email protected] Source
May 19, 200618 yr It's only a matter of time before Iran tries to exterminate it's non-muslim population and we're forced to go in there, this is just the first step.
May 19, 200618 yr Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments." The law, which must still be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims. Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth. W T F
May 19, 200618 yr All for an imaginary avenger. Iran sure isn't making life any easier on the rest of the world.
May 19, 200618 yr that county could use a revolution. ...except it would probably just be replaced by new religious fanatics...
May 19, 200618 yr jews were marked as jews well before nazi germany. that aside if i was a christian or jew in iran i would be moving right about now.
May 19, 200618 yr ^_^ )-->QUOTE( ^_^ @ May 19 2006, 7:41 PM) 1153547[/snapback] that aside if i was a christian or jew in iran i would be moving right about now. They need to get out of there, I don't know what they are waiting for if they haven't already.
May 20, 200618 yr I've been hearing some backtracking on this from the National Post, but I don't know. I mean, this sounds like something Ahmadenijad (Farsi for neo-Hitler) would do. As it is, when people on DailyKos saw some doubts, they packed up and said, "Uh, nothing to see here, carry on," as if they care for what happened in a falsified "massacre" in Jenin more than what's really happening to Jews and Baha'is in Iran. What is it going to take for people to WAKE UP AND SMELL THE GENOCIDE?!! They need to get out of there, I don't know what they are waiting for if they haven't already. They can't. They're trapped like rats. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_Jews Jewish citizens are permitted to obtain passports and to travel outside the country, but they often are denied the multiple-exit permits normally issued to other citizens. With the exception of certain business travelers, the authorities require Jewish persons to obtain clearance and pay additional fees before each trip abroad. The Iranian government is concerned about the emigration of Jewish citizens and permission generally is not granted for all members of a Jewish family to travel outside the country at the same time. Plus, there's this mistaken belief that they "like it there."
May 20, 200618 yr AXIS OF f'n EVIL!!!!!!!!! 1) IRAN 2) NORTH KOREA 3) VENEZUELA 4) RUSSIA & CHINA (soon joining) Must go after Iran now!
May 20, 200618 yr I'm kind of of the mind that this isn't true. The reports are supposedly from expatriates. Are there no reporters on the ground in Iran? I suppose it's not surprising if they don't have access to parliament.
May 20, 200618 yr AXIS OF f'n EVIL!!!!!!!!! 1) IRAN 2) NORTH KOREA 3) VENEZUELA 4) RUSSIA & CHINA (soon joining) Must go after Iran now! problem with that is we got troops and money tied up all over the place. plus iran has an air force. it's been a while since we faced one. we aren't really used to having competition in the skies.
May 20, 200618 yr I'm kind of of the mind that this isn't true. The reports are supposedly from expatriates. Are there no reporters on the ground in Iran? I suppose it's not surprising if they don't have access to parliament. You seriously do not believe this? This is the f***ing Ayatollah we are talking about. And no, there are no reporters in Iran because they aren't allowed!
May 20, 200618 yr I'm kind of of the mind that this isn't true. The reports are supposedly from expatriates. Are there no reporters on the ground in Iran? I suppose it's not surprising if they don't have access to parliament. You seriously do not believe this? This is the f***ing Ayatollah we are talking about. And no, there are no reporters in Iran because they aren't allowed! http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/st...be-bb91af82abb3 Now, if this does turn it out to be false, we should all think long and hard about why someone would falsely claim this and not forget how select Iraqi expatriates participated in bamboozling a good part of the American public. It may be a misunderstanding, as there seems there may have been some discussion of it in parliament. And one interesting, although possibly unrelated tidbit is that the organization that posted those 2 articles (the first that said the law had passed and the second that very nearly refutes it) is a highly conservative organization. According to Wikipedia: The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to combat what he saw as an 'over-liberalizing' of editorial policy in Canadian newspapers. Black built the new paper around the existing Financial Post, an established business-oriented newspaper in Toronto which he purchased from Sun Media in 1997. (Financial Post was retained as the name of the new paper's business section.) "From the beginning the Post has had a strongly conservative editorial stance, and has an editorial page featuring the writings of many prominent neo-conservatives and libertarians from the United States and Canada, including Diane Francis, Andrew Coyne, Mark Steyn and David Frum. This stance is typically mocked by those who refer to the paper as the "Fascist Post" or the "Zionist Post". A number of newspaper stands in Toronto holding the National Post for sale have been vandalized with these statements. ... the paper endorsed the Conservative Party of Canada in the 2006 election, and Leonard Asper appeared with Conservative leader Stephen Harper on the campaign trail." Just food for thought.
May 20, 200618 yr If this turns out not to be true, that angers me that much more, because now people will poo-poo the current dire situation of Jews and Baha'is in Iran as nothing more than a neocon myth. Hell, some people on DailyKos are already doing that in so many words.
May 20, 200618 yr ^_^ )-->QUOTE( ^_^ @ May 20 2006, 1:48 AM) 1154234[/snapback] AXIS OF f'n EVIL!!!!!!!!! 1) IRAN 2) NORTH KOREA 3) VENEZUELA 4) RUSSIA & CHINA (soon joining) Must go after Iran now! problem with that is we got troops and money tied up all over the place. plus iran has an air force. it's been a while since we faced one. we aren't really used to having competition in the skies. Trust me....Iran is NO competition to us. NONE! These 3rd world countries would be destroyed by us. We have more technology than Iran has ever read about in Tom Swift books. Russia, China, and N.Korea you can worry about a little. Iran is nothing- all talk from a guy just a tad crazier than Saddam. as horrible and serious i think this is... ROFL at the axis of evil outburst. haha....just sick of all these wanna be countries talkin' smack. I hate all these jealous leaders.
May 20, 200618 yr ^_^ )-->QUOTE( ^_^ @ May 20 2006, 1:48 AM) 1154234[/snapback] AXIS OF f'n EVIL!!!!!!!!! 1) IRAN 2) NORTH KOREA 3) VENEZUELA 4) RUSSIA & CHINA (soon joining) Must go after Iran now! problem with that is we got troops and money tied up all over the place. plus iran has an air force. it's been a while since we faced one. we aren't really used to having competition in the skies. Trust me....Iran is NO competition to us. NONE! These 3rd world countries would be destroyed by us. We have more technology than Iran has ever read about in Tom Swift books. Russia, China, and N.Korea you can worry about a little. Iran is nothing- all talk from a guy just a tad crazier than Saddam. as horrible and serious i think this is... ROFL at the axis of evil outburst. haha....just sick of all these wanna be countries talkin' smack. I hate all these jealous leaders. If you go into Iran, they will use dirty bombs on Turkey and Isreal. If Iran falls the whole region is going to fall apart. We dont have the troops to take and hold Iran and Iraq. If Isreal with the best troops in the world has a problem controling the west bank and they are right there. We will have a huge problem controling land larger then Cali from across the world.
May 20, 200618 yr If Isreal had it their way the West Bank would not be a problem. Dont say they cant control it, Isreal has its hands tied behind their backs.
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