Posted on 05/19/2006 8:54:28 AM PDT by tophat9000
Iran may force badges on Jews, Christians TEHRAN, May 19 (UPI) -- Iran's parliament passed a new law this week that would force the country's Jews, Christians and other religious minorities to wear color-coded ID badges.
Iranian expatriates confirmed reports the Iranian parliament, or majlis, has approved a law that would require non-Muslims to adhere to a dress code which mandates they wear "standard Islamic garments," according to Canada's National Post.
The roughly 25,000 Jews living in the Islamic Republic would have to attach a yellow strip of cloth to their clothing, Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would wear blue ones.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader and highest authority, must approve the law for it to take effect.
"This is reminiscent of the Holocaust," said Rabbi Marvin Hier, head of the Simon Weisenthal Center in Los Angeles. "Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis."
The Weisenthal Center has written to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan to call on the international community to pressure Iran into abandoning the measure.
"There's no reason to believe they won't pass this," Hier told the Post. "It will certainly pass unless there's some sort of international outcry over this."
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejan has publicly called for Israel to be "wiped off the map." The West believes Tehran is secretly and illegally using its nuclear energy program to develop a weapon, a claim Iran denies.
It is within living memory that another nutcase tried to take over the world and kill all the Jews. Europe tried to appease him, with predictably disastrous results. Have we learned nothing?
Worked for the Nazis - for a while.
Dear Iran --
Next devastating earthquake you guys get, please seek help elsewhere.
Sincerely,
Us
You are correct, of course, but I wonder, at times, how many GOP Senators aren't equally as impaired.
Probably not. I just spent a few minutes scanning all the liberal sites. Nothing. Nothing on mainstream news, either.
Badges? Hmmmm....maybe they skip that part and just start using numeric tatoos.
Yeah, I'd say the rabbi's statement was a bit tentative, lol.
Imagine Hitler with nukes, his thumb on our oil supply and a billion sympathizers embedded in every western country.
Waiting for Chavez and the Leftist apologists in Europe and North America who think only George Bush and not Iran is evil to explain away this one...
This must be some kind of mistake. "Islam is PEACE." -- GWB, Sep. 2001.
Well, CRAP!
There goes my Iranian vacation, this summer!
Bears repeating
The only thing you're going to hear from that direction is crickets chirping.
That guy is just begging to have a Tomahawk shot up his bum.
One good thing about this. It will make it easy for our troops to tell the good guys from the bad guys - when we invade Iran.
And, I suspect these badges will become very valuable when our invasion forces get close.
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