I now wear this badge with Honor
and encourage all others to do the same.
My Dog-Tags say American Baptist.
Posted on 05/22/2006 6:50:09 PM PDT by West Coast Conservative
Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun.
As far as my article is concerned I stand by it.
The law has been passed by the Islamic Majlis and will now be submitted to the Council of Guardians. A committee has been appointed to work out the modalities of implementation.
Many ideas are being discussed with regard to implementation, including special markers, known as zonnars, for followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism, the only faiths other than Islam that are recognized as such. The zonnar was in use throughout the Muslim world until the early 20th century and marked out the dhimmis, or protected religious minorities. ( In Iran it was formally abolished in 1908).
I have been informed of the ideas under discussion thanks to my sources in Tehran, including three members of the Majlis who had tried to block the bill since it was first drafted in 2004.
I do not know which of these ideas or any will be eventually adopted. We will know once the committee appointed to discuss them presents its report, perhaps in September.
Interestingly, the Islamic Republic authorities refuse to issue an official statement categorically rejecting the concept of dhimmitude and the need for marking out religious minorities.
I raised the issue not as a news story, because news of the new law was already several days old, but as an opinion column to alert the outside world to this most disturbing development.
It seems an impossibly inflammatory action to Westerners whose historical context includes the Holocaust. It isn't inflammatory at all in the eyes of people whose own historical context ceases in the 12th century AD. It's traditional.
I still don't think this is being explained very well.
My understanding is: the Majlis (islamic parliament)passed the vote on a general dress code. (The idea of an Iranian "costume" has been discussed for yrs.) That's all. No specifics as to what the dress will be. That's still under consideration, as is the possiblity of some sort of designation for non-muslims. That has not been decided.
The vote having passed on the general dress code, will now go to the Council of Guardians and be voted on there. The ultimate decider is Khamenei.
Details of the garments will be decided later.
That's my understanding.
Iranians, expat or nationals, haven't had a good track record for accurately reporting things. I don't recall how many times in the last few years that I read that the Iranian students were going to bring down their Shia theocracy, for instance.
The King was asked by the Germans to ID Danish Jews with the Star of David. He said, then give me the first star. What a hero! How many of our leaders today would do that?
SandRat - Beautiful Post!!! I say if Iran makes the Jews wear a yellow stripe on their clothing, we all wear a yellow stripe to show our solidarity with them. What the Danish people did to help and save their Jewish population during World War II should stand as a model for us all.
Amir Taheri accurately reported it. If you go back to his original article, it never said that they passed a law on the 'badges'. He said they passed the dress code (which had already been reported a couple days earlier) and they "envisage" having some kind of religious designation in the form of a badge or strip of cloth.
What happened was, the Nat'l Post ran with the story, and it escalated from there, with everyone leaving out the key word, "envisage", and assuming that the law passed included the 'badges'. And also, people didn't understand, that the Majlis vote doesn't mean much until it is taken up and passed by the Council of Guardians, and then finally OK'd by Khamenei.
Oooh...I have a Thorshammer just like that one. Makes my part-Scandinavian self proud.
(And for the record, I'm a member of the Faith that supplanted Norse Paganism, but I admire the strength and honor of my neo-Heathen brothers, and fully expect to be fighting alongside them against Islamonazi terror if it reaches my neck of the woods...)
If they do it, I'd like to get hold of the marker proposed for all non-muslims. I'll have a t-shirt made with them, I'll wear them all.
Does anyone notice that the Bahai are left out? They are often repressed, sometimes violently so.
I want to believe that GW and Laura would be the first to take the stars today.
I have one like this (though a little bit further along than shown):
I admire the strength and honor of my neo-Heathen brothers, and fully expect to be fighting alongside them against Islamonazi terror if it reaches my neck of the woods...
CS Lewis' "Cliche Came Out of its Cage"
You said 'The world is going back to Paganism'.
...
Or did you mean another kind of heathenry?
Think, then, that under heaven-roof the little disc of the earth,
Fortified Midgard, lies encircled by the ravening Worm.
Over its icy bastions faces of giant and troll
Look in, ready to invade it. The Wolf, admittedly, is bound;
But the bond will break, the Beast run free. The weary gods,
Scarred with old wounds the one-eyed Odin, Tyr who has lost a hand,
Will limp to their stations for the Last defence. Make it your hope
To be counted worthy on that day to stand beside them;
For the end of man is to partake of their defeat and die
His second, final death in good company. The stupid, strong
Unteachable monsters are certain to be victorious at last,
And every man of decent blood is on the losing side.
Take as your model the tall women with yellow hair in plaits
Who walked back into burning houses to die with men,
Or him who as the death spear entered into his vitals
Made critical comments on its workmanship and aim.
Are these the Pagans you spoke of? Know your betters and crouch, dogs;
You that have Vichy water in your veins and worship the event
Your goddess History (whom your fathers called the strumpet Fortune).
Not all religions are keen on turning the other cheek. The Iranians should be aware of this if they try to do the religious-badge thing for easier spotting of targets (also something that those Christians who think that "pagan" is another word for "fru-fru moon goddess worshipping pansies" should be aware of). A pity there are likely no Asatruar or Sikhs in Iran...
the regulation is question is more than for Jews only. Christians are supposedly supposed to use red.
Yes, I believe they would. Ronald Reagan would have.
I understand that -- and Persian Blue for Zoroastrians, etc. The whole thing is creepy!
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