Iran eyes badges for Jews - Law would require non-Muslim insignia

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  • Elsewhere
    Elsewhere

    Here we go again... another Hitler on the rise. http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f&k=32073

    Iran eyes badges for Jews
    Law would require non-Muslim insignia

    Chris Wattie
    National Post
    Friday, May 19, 2006

    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.

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  • minimus
    minimus

    I read this earlier. I wonder if the Iranian president ever was a JW.

  • JH
    JH
    He has caused international outrage by publicly calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

    Israel should wipe Iran off the map and see how they like it.

  • XJW4EVR
    XJW4EVR

    And it begins again!

  • Spectrum
    Spectrum

    If true this is very interesting:

    The Iranians are thinking of treating the jews like Nazi and concentration camp victims and the Jews are already treating the Palestinians like Nazi and concentration camp victims with that concentration camp wall they are building on Palestinian land.

  • XJW4EVR
    XJW4EVR
    The Iranians are thinking of treating the jews like Nazi and concentration camp victims and the Jews are already treating the Palestinians like Nazi and concentration camp victims with that concentration camp wall they are building on Palestinian land.

    Imagine building a wall to keep out homocidal terrorists.

  • avishai
    avishai

    I don't agree with many of the things that The state of Israel does, however, many seem to have the history of palestine skewed.

  • Spectrum
    Spectrum

    "Imagine building a wall to keep out homocidal terrorists."

    You are very disengenuous to the Palestinians and ignorant of their suffering for the last 60 years under the ZioNazi rule of the Jews.

    All the Japs did was knock out a couple of ships and you dropped a couple nuclear bombs on them. I know, I know it's more complicated than that. But then again if the Japanese did try to take your sovereignty imagine how many more nucks would have been dropped on civilians?

  • avishai
    avishai


    All the Japs did was knock out a couple of ships and you dropped a couple nuclear bombs on them. I know, I know it's more complicated than that. But then again if the Japanese did try to take your sovereignty imagine how many more nucks would have been dropped on civilians?

    The Japanese murdered hundreds of thousands of civilians in China and elsewhere.


    WARNING: GRAPHIC!!!

    http://www.tribo.org/nanking/

  • Fleshybirdfodder
    Fleshybirdfodder

    Though it still is being denied by many in the media, I don't disbelieve it at all. Sickens me. I look forward to the day when rationality takes the place of "Babylon the Great", and ALL religions go the way of the dinosaur... I know it won't happen, but one can dream...

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