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It is a prelude to the slaughter of the innocents. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. My first reaction was - "Gimme me a damn badge!" Somebody stop this lunatic and quickly... Gordo 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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In fact, Christians living in Muslim countries have, for centuries, been required to wear: a) five-pound wooden neck crosses while walking outside; b) bells on their clothing before going to market; c) riding their donkeys backwards.
The Rabbi above is quite correct . . .
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This is just reflective of the dhimmitude imposed upon non-Muslims by the fanatical adherents of the "religion of peace". I know some very good Iranians who are devout Muslims, and yet would never support this measure...nor do they support this leader. (He is in fact a joke among the younger generations.)
God bless our brother and sisters - Jews and Christians - who suffer in Iran!
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This is deplorable. I shudder to think what is going to happen next over there. Gordo has said: Somebody stop this lunatic and quickly... Without politicizing this, I think that there's only one way to stop Amadinejad and Khomeni and it won't be pretty. 
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This is pretty standard operating procedure. There are websites that outline the degrading treatment that Christians and Jews must face in Muslim coutries that follow the Dhimma. Check out Dhimmi.com and Jihad.com Also, read Bat Ye'or's books: "The Dhimmi" or "The Decline of Estern Christianity under Islam". Combine this with the Nazi and Marxist leanings that have affected some Muslim countries which have replaced the monarchy with tyranny and you have a very dangerous situation for Christians and Jews in those countries. Check out Schwartz, "The Two Faces of Islam" for further information.
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Someone told me that one way of stopping the Iranians would be to give the Arabs a chance at them...but the outcome will not be pretty. :rolleyes: We must realize that the Iranians are Shia's and Saddam was a Sunni...and let's not forget what he did to them.  But here we are trying to help them, and make up for not helping the Shia's in Iraq after the First Gulf war, only to allow some lunatic or lunatics in Iran to be free to do whatever he/they want. Oh vey! :rolleyes: Oh I love the Middle Eastern paranoia. The Iranian President, (whatever his name is ?  ), made a comment to the effect that it was jealousy from others that wants to keep Iran from being happy. I guess this has been directed at him for his comments on having Israel destroyed, and typically he's twisting it around. Never fails!  Zenovia
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by ebed melech:
[QB] It is a prelude to the slaughter of the innocents. Those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it.
My first reaction was - "Gimme me a damn badge!"
Get one for me too.
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Iran denies non-Muslim badge plan
From correspondents in Ottawa
20may06
AUSTRALIA, the US and Canada lost little time in blasting Iran for a report, quickly denied, that Tehran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public.
While acknowledging they had no details beyond a report in a Canadian newspaper, the three countries went on the offensive in separate statements, with Washington and Ottawa evoking the atrocities of Nazi Germany.
"If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly be despicable," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said in Washington. "I think it has clear echoes of Germany under Hitler."
The National Post newspaper, citing human rights groups, reported today that Iran's parliament had passed a law this week that sets a public dress code and requires non-Muslims to wear a special insignia.
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, the newspaper stated.
Maurice Motammed, a Jewish member of Iran's Parliament, dismissed the report as "a complete fabrication" and said: "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain."
Iran's conservative-dominated Parliament is debating a draft law that would discourage women from wearing Western clothing and increase taxes on imported clothes and fund an advertising campaign to encourage citizens to wear Islamic-style garments.
A draft received preliminary approval last Sunday and Parliament debated it this week, but the bill has not been passed.
In Tehran, MP Emad Afroogh, who sponsored the bill and chairs the parliament's cultural committee, said today there was no truth to the Canadian newspaper report.
"It's a sheer lie. The rumours about this are worthless," he said.
"The bill is not related to minorities. It is only about clothing," he said. "Please tell them (in the West) to check the details of the bill. There is no mention of religious minorities and their clothing in the bill," he said.
But McCormack, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard showed little inclination to give the benefit of the doubt to a regime widely criticised for its anti-Israeli statements.
"Unfortunately, we have seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," Mr Harper said in Ottawa.
"I think it boggles the mind that any regime on the face of the earth would want to do anything that could remind people of Nazi Germany," he added.
"The fact that such a measure could even be contemplated, I think, is absolutely abhorrent."
Mr Howard also expressed indignation during an official visit to Canada, calling the report "appalling" if confirmed.
"Anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to civilised countries, if it's the case, and something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime," he said.
Iran's new hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already come in for widespread criticism for suggesting that the Holocaust was a myth and calling for Israel to be wiped off the face of the map.
Mr McCormack said he had no details of the dress code described by the National Post but had seen "various similar news reports" in recent months and US officials were trying to learn more.
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By reacting to international outrage the Iranians "may" have shown a soft spot. That is, they may be open to modifying their ways. We shall see. Does anyone have a link to the actual legislation which this latest article would indicate is available for review. I'd like to know if the legislation is a return to the full blown dhimma or is what the legislators indicate.
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Welcome to the propaganda of Simon Weisenthal! Since its founding in 1977, the Simon Wiesenthal Center has grown to become one of the most important and influential Jewish organizations in the world. Headquartered in Los Angeles, with offices in New York, Jerusalem, Paris, Miami, Toronto and Buenos Aires, it reports a membership of more than 300,000 and an annual income of some $30 million. Although it calls itself �an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust fostering tolerance and understanding,� the Center in reality is a propaganda agency whose agenda is to further Jewish-Zionist interests. brought to you by your friendly Melkite and Maronite refugees from Palestine in San Jose, California 
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Originally posted by Criostoir McAvoy:
Welcome to the propaganda of Simon Weisenthal! The dean of the center is mentioned at the end of the story. What evidence do you have that the Simon Weisenthal Center was a source for the evidently false report? brought to you by your friendly Melkite and Maronite refugees from Palestine in San Jose, California What's your point?
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Majlis passes bill setting out new dress requirement
Tehran, May 15, IRNA
Iran-Fashion-Majlis bill
Majlis deputies here on Sunday approved the outlines of a bill setting out a dress code suitable for Iranian culture and society and a national fashion trend.
When the bill is passed into law, a committee composed of representatives from the ministries of culture, commerce and industries as well as the Management and Plan Organization, Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) and Majlis Cultural Commission is to be created.
The culture ministry and IRIB will have the primary responsbility of promoting the required dress or clothing design as confirmed by the committee and prevent Western-style fashion that are against Islamic teachings.
After the law is passed, the culture ministry, with the help of the ministry of commerce, will hold national, regional and international festivals and exhibitions to promote cultural exchanges, including Islamic fashion, among Muslim nations.
Seasonal fairs will be held by the commerce ministry to introduce as well as promote sales of Islamic dresses and garments to the public.
The national dress plan was approved in Majlis by 137 votes in favor, 45 against, and 11 abstentions.
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I posted the link above to show this Iraninan gov statement to provide what I thought would be a clarification. Certainly no reason to denegrate the Jews.
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Thanks, E.M., for posting your questions.
My father once told me that the only thing he saw in WW2 that really shook his faith in humanity was encountering a group of liberated death camp inmates at the end of the war. For a pretty tough guy like him who survived two plane crashes and a combat injury and who moved on from there and did his soldierly duty to be so shaken that that was the ONLY thing burned in his memory that he had nightmares about for years after, tells me something valuable. There is a gruesome, dreadful side to humanity that can easily cross the line to inhumanity.
Singling people out with badges is probably the first step to rounding them up, carting them off, and doing Lord knows what with them (something not good, be assured); if we learned nothing from history, at least we can pay attention to that painful lesson of the 20th century. I am disgusted that the Iranian president, who apparently also denies that Hitler's death camps ever existed, has blithely taken a page from his dead "mentor" and suggested a similar badge system. History is full of evil men who do the will of Satan and he is yet another example; we will never run out of them it seems, until the world itself runs out.
Pray that the people of Iran will grow the wisdom to clean their own garden of the evil that has rooted itself there.
I'm not too hopeful, though. Are you?
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