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bigverne
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 Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 6:13 am Post subject: Religious Minorities in Iran to wear special badges |
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Iran eyes badges for Jews
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.
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.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f
Looks like the dhimmi dress codes of bygone eras are about to be resurrected. |
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canuckistan
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 7:04 am Post subject: |
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Looks like the dhimmi dress codes of bygone eras are about to be resurrected.
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Or Nazi Germany. |
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thepeel
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 9:33 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if anyone here has the balls to try and rationalize this away.
(If it is true, that is... Only UPI and the National Post (CDN) are running it right now)
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TheFonz
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Location: North Georgia
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 10:21 am Post subject: |
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I have heard some right wing minded individual say, "That is one of the main reasons Bush invaded Iraq. All along Iran has been the main enemy, but the U.S. needed a stronghold in the middle east."
I wonder when U.S. will attack Iran (if ever) or will they wait till Iran attacks Israel. I remeber when I saw on the news recently Showdown with Iran. It brought back memories of SHOWDOWN WITH IRAQ. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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I wonder if anyone here has the balls to try and rationalize this away.
(If it is true, that is... Only UPI and the National Post (CDN) are running it right now)
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And the conservative NY Sun says there is some doubt as to the veracity of the story...
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CAIRO, Egypt-- Jewish leaders, the Israeli government and chancelleries of free countries are scrambling to find out whether there is truth to a
report that Iran is readying a law that would require Jews and Christians and members of other minority religions to wear special identifying marks on their clothing.
On Friday, the Jewish Community's representative in Iran's parliament, known as the Majlis, Morris Mohtemed spoke with the secretary general of the Iranian American Jewish Federation in Los Angeles, Sam Kermanian, and told him the story reported by the National Post in Canada today was false. "We have not been able to confirm the accuracy of the report, nonetheless we are pursuing this issue with concern," Mr. Kermanian said in an interview with The New York Sun.
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http://www.nysun.com/article/33095 |
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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 12:07 am Post subject: |
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I wonder if anyone here has the balls to try and rationalize this away.
(If it is true, that is... Only UPI and the National Post (CDN) are running it right now)
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And the conservative NY Sun says there is some doubt as to the veracity of the story... |
Yep, here's another one ...
Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is Untrue
Chris Wattie, National Post
Published: Friday, May 19, 2006
Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the country�s Jews and other religious minorities to wear coloured badges identifying them as non-Muslims.
The Iranian embassy in Otttawa also denied the Iranian government had passed such a law.
A news story and column by Iranian-born analyst Amir Taheri in yesterday�s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iran�s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.
According to the reports, Jews were to wear yellow cloth strips, called zonnar, while Christians were to wear red and Zoroastrians blue.
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre and Iranian expatriates living in Canada had confirmed that the order had been passed, although it still had to be approved by Iran�s �Supreme Guide� Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect.
Hormoz Ghahremani, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, said in an e-mail to the Post yesterday that, �We wish to categorically reject the news item.
�These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step.�
Sam Kermanian, of the U.S.-based Iranian-American Jewish Federation, said in an interview from Los Angeles that he had contacted members of the Jewish community in Iran � including the lone Jewish member of the Iranian parliament � and they denied any such measure was in place.
Mr. Kermanian said the subject of �what to do with religious minorities� came up during debates leading up to the passing of the dress code law.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
For his part, PM Stephen Harper has quickly weighed into this one, when really he should have perhaps not been so quick to "shoot off half-C-O-C-K-ed"
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/19052006/2/national-harper-says-iran-capable-introducing-nazi-clothing-labels.html |
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Gopher
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:15 am Post subject: |
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| ...there is some doubt as to the veracity of the story. |
I agree we should take this information in skeptically, as it is a bit too dramatic to have the ring of truth to it -- or so my sensibilities tell me.
But if it were indeed true, this would strongly suggest that several here on this board should reassess their opinions that the Iranian regime's rhetoric is not to be taken seriously.
Also, I note that Igotthisguitar has now moved to the defensive on this conspiracy theory/allegation, thus confirming his politics. |
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On the other hand
Joined: 19 Apr 2003
Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Sat May 20, 2006 9:25 am Post subject: |
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But if it is indeed true, this would strongly suggest that several here on this board should reassess their opinions that the Iranian regime's rhetoric is not to be taken seriously.
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Whether or not the story is true or false has little bearing on my view of the Iranian regime, which is all-around negative. Even if they're not making religious minorities wear special clothes, I don't doubt that they're doing things that are roughly comparable.
But the nature of these particular allegations seem calculated to evoke a comparison with Nazi Germany, which has a reputation for being the evil-regime-to-end-all-evil-regimes, the armed struggle against which was unquestionably justified. Therefore, if the story is false, I have to wonder what propagnada ends someone is trying to serve by evoking that particular comparison. |
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