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.
ON THE NET...
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
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UPDATE...
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/19/is-the-iranian-yellow-badges-story-true/
"Is the Iranian yellow badges story true? (bumped)"
posted at 6:21 pm on May 19, 2006 by Allahpundit
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UPDATE...
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
"Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue"
Chris Wattie, National Post
Published: Friday, May 19, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country’s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday’s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran’s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth."
Iran eyes badges for Jews: Law would require non-Muslim insignia
http://www.cjc.ca/template.php?action=itn&Story=1768
Thanks.
UPDATE TO POST NO. 389
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1634857/posts?page=401#401
To: Jim Robinson; DoctorZIn; F14 Pilot; abu afak; JohnathanRGalt; backhoe; piasa; Godzilla; nwctwx; ...
ON THE NET...
http://www.memri.org/iran.html
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UPDATE...
http://hotair.com/archives/the-blog/2006/05/19/is-the-iranian-yellow-badges-story-true/
"Is the Iranian yellow badges story true? (bumped)"
posted at 6:21 pm on May 19, 2006 by Allahpundit
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UPDATE...
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
"Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue"
Chris Wattie, National Post
Published: Friday, May 19, 2006
ARTICLE SNIPPET: "Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country’s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday’s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran’s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth."
401 posted on 05/19/2006 4:06:38 PM PDT by Cindy
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All the civilized nations will denounce and condemn all the while expecting The U.S. Brittan and Australia to do something about it.
And once we do start doing something about it, all the civilized nations will throw a fit and demand our leaders be tried as war criminals. This game has been played many times before, and it will happen again. If you thought the international outcry was bad when we went into Iraq, it will be a hundred times worse if we try to do ANYTHING against Iran.
Nazi-like rhetoric aside, I figured that they were actually going out of their way to look like the Nazis when I saw the photo of the Basiji special guard surrounding Ahmadinejad. Their uniforms are almost direct copies of Hitler's SS.
The Basij are the 'Morality Enforcers' who cane women in the streets for appearing Westernized as well as carry out public executions.
Praise the Lord for seeing to it that the enemies of the free world have the habit of identifying themselves so clearly. Makes it so much easier to gun them down like a dog.
What a minor detail.
Call the Iranian embassy and include the embassy's response in the article- Journalism 101.
Of course the mainsteam networks that ran with the story didn't bother including an Iranian embassy response.
Your hotair.com link seems to sum up what happened. This thread sure came to a screeching halt.
"This thread sure came to a screeching halt."
Yes.
Iran has never attacked the United States and has been tied to but one terror attack against us: the Khobar Towers 10 years ago.
You see. It was only one attack. No big deal, one attack is to be expected. Nothing to get all bent out of shape about. How can this pus bag look himself in the mirror? Can he really spout of crap like this with a straight face?
BTTT
Why should Europe care about this? They've already shown that they don't care about it... remember the Taliban in Afganistan?
They did the exact same thing, forcing non-Muslims to wear an identification badge.
And Europe yawned and then gave their support to the Taliban (they reduced opium production, after all).
So too will Europe do the same with Iran.
Face it, Europe is still fixated on seeing the extermination of the Jews... and their willing to see every Christian turned into a Islamic dhimmi to do it.
This is what "the gatherings clouds of war" look like people.
Sorry...Hindu.
Complete BS.
Except of 89 Americans and 85 Canadians the ISAF-force of roundabout 9000 soldiers in Afghanistan consists soley of EUROPEANS. If we would not care than we would not waste our men and resources in such a benighted and soulless place. Apart from helping those people to master their future we have for sure no interests there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force
Face it. Guys like you are fixed on a certain form on political auto-erotic: Everything that is not absolutely in line with your own stance is evil. Espechially if it comes from Europe.
Actually you have that backward. this early the libs will talk much like conservatives but when it is time to do something about it the libs will cry bloody murder. Basing this on what took place in Iraq.
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