One day we will have to nuke these crazy bastards
Iran: Jews, Christians Must Wear Badges
In a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insignia, Iran’s parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews, Christians and other religious minorities to wear color-coded badges to identify them as non-Muslims.
The law would also set a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear “standard Islamic garments.”
The law, which must be approved by Iran’s “Supreme Leader” Ali Khamenei before taking effect, requires Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes. Christians would be forced to wear red badges and Zoroastrians would wear blue cloth, according to Canada’s National Post.
“This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles.
“Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.”
Bernie Farber, chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, agrees.
“There are some frightening parallels here,” he told the National Post.
“We thought this had gone the way of the dodo bird, but clearly in Iran everything old and bad is new again. It’s state-sponsored religious discrimination.”
The new law was drafted two years ago, but lingered in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the urging of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Ahmadinejad has repeatedly described the Holocaust as a myth and earlier this year announced Iran would host a conference to re-examine the Nazis’ “Final Solution.”
Ali Behroozian, an Iranian exile living in Toronto, said the new law would make religious minorities immediately identifiable and allow Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims.
Iran’s small pockets of Jewish, Christian and other religious minorities “have all been persecuted for a while, but these new dress rules are going to make things worse for them,” he told the Post.
Australia’s Prime Minister John Howard told reporters about the law: “Anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to civilized countries, if it’s the case, and something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime. It would be appalling.”
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has written to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan calling on the international community to bring pressure on Iran to drop the law.
“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.”
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May 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
I read that over on Newsmax.com. Very scary stuff indeed. I’d be most interested in hearing what that great stateman, the war on terrible, has to say about this.
May 20th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
There have been somewhat conflicting reports questioning the accuracy of this story, so if it’s okay, I’m adding a link to provide some balance until we can get it all sorted out.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
May 21st, 2006 at 3:17 am
A link to yet another Amir Taheri story on this same topic, which provides even more detail than the first story did. Still too early to be certain, but there’s a better than good chance that where there is smoke, there is fire.
http://www.nypost.com/commentary/68850.htm
May 21st, 2006 at 3:33 am
I apologize. It appears that the “NY Post” story that appeared today is the
same Amir Taheri story that was published in the “National Post” yesterday. My mistake.