Posted on 05/19/2006 2:55:11 AM PDT by Squawk 8888
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.
???? Is this the Twight Zone??
1)Vehemently Against
2) Yes to assassination of Ahmadinejad and others you haven't mentioned.
For the rest of my stance on the murdering mullahs, do me a favor & look back over my 100's (1,000's?) of posts against the Iranian regime.
Then take your meds.
Thank you.
Quote from Minister of Internal Security in Israel:
“he who will force Jews, wherever they may be, to wear yellow badges will eventually find himself in a casket covered in black cloth.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3252855,00.html
JMHO, but anyone who cannot see this kind of thing coming has some massively tinted rose-colored glasses on.
The knowlege doesn't keep me from living a very happy life. It just makes me work a little harder, and play a little harder as well!
;-)
Good for him.
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0605158004121559.htm
Just saw this- apparent confirmation...
Under the new law, which still awaits final approval from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, while Christians will be required to don red ones.
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter responded to the new law Friday night, saying, "Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."
Furthermore, according to the law, the Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions.
The purpose for the law was to prevent Muslims from becoming najis "unclean" by accidentally shaking the hands of non-Muslims in public.
Debka is saying there is no such clause in the amendment....
If a day comes when the world of Islam is duly equipped with the arms Israel has in possession, the strategy of colonialism would face a stalemate because application of an atomic bomb would not leave any thing in Israel but the same thing would just produce damages in the Muslim world
It is up to the U.S. and Israel to wipe Iran clean of mullahs.... because the rest of the world is like pre WWI nations.. all a bunch of appeasing enlightened cowards.
But ..if that's ALL there is to it- it's actually NOT a confirmation- my mistake.
That was posted in #305 and doesn't confirm the "badges".
The dress code thing was actually posted a few days ago.
Why would the Minister of Internal Security in Israel issue such a quote unless he had conformation on the authenticity of such a report? I would think HE has better intel than I do.
In 1943, Amin Al Husseini founded and lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim Nazis. Here they are engaged in traditional Muslim prayer. 
Amin Al Husseini shown shaking hands with his friend Heinrich Himmler, head of Hitler's SS. Amin Al Husseini asked Himmler if he could see the gasing of Jews first-hand in the concentration camps. Himmler granted him his wish
Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler. Distributed by Palestinian Authority- 2003
you can see a photo history of the muslim nazis at the link below.
It was probably a tie see post 353
What is the Security Minister supposed to say? He has to say what he would do if it were true. Can't "no comment" that one.
It says in response to reports. Why shouldn't he respond to something so outrageous?
I'm sure they're in the process of checking out the story.
"JMHO, but anyone who cannot see this kind of thing coming has some massively tinted rose-colored glasses on.
The knowlege doesn't keep me from living a very happy life. It just makes me work a little harder, and play a little harder as well! "
Wow - that's the first time I've ever been accused of being an optimist!
I try to live the way you do in your 2nd paragraph, just because life only comes once.
For me, it's just that every generation of people in history felt that they were living in "end times" for lack of a better word...and since all of them were proven wrong..well, I'm a stats guy so you know what I'm saying here.
Amin Al Husseini seen inspecting his Hanzar Division made up exclusively of Muslims, mostly from the Crotia/Bosnia/Serbia region. They actively lead the genocide against Serbs, Serbian Jews and Gypsies.
Amin Al Husseini meets with Adolf Hitler in November 1942, weeks before the decision to implement the Final Solution which sent Europe's Jews to the gas chamber. The Third Reich provided Amin Al Husseini with a salary and appointed him Head of the Hanzar SS Division. The Hanzar Division was made of Nazi Muslims and implemented the genocide of 250,000 Serbs, Gypsies and Jews during WWII.
Amin Al Husseini shown here on a Nazi poster recruiting fellow Muslims to join Hitler in the fight against the West and the Jews. His disciples today include Yasser Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the leaders of Hamas, Al Qeida and Islamic Jihad.
Amin Al Husseini, future President of the World Islamic Congress (1961) and founding father of the Arab League (1944) inspects his Muslim Nazi troops, the Hanzar Division. Amin Al Husseini making the traditional nazi salute.
Yasser Arafat became a disciple of Amin Al Husseini since the age of 17. Here: recent picture of Palestinian soldiers under the leadership of Arafat making the traditional Nazi salute.
WWII . Amin Al Husseini spent most of the war in Berlin. He was on Hitler's payroll as he lead the Hanzar Division of Muslim SS and played a lead-role in determining the fate of Europe's Jewish community.. From Berlin, Amin Al Husseini helped organize the transfer of Nazi officers into the Middle East
Amin Al Husseini inspecting his Nazi troops, the Hanzar. Here, he is showing a young Muslim recruit how to use his rifle. Amin Al Husseini himself had been an officer in the defeated Ottoman Islamic Empire of World War I.<
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