iran passing laws to make jews/christians, wear arm badges Options

[Seeker]

Iran certainly didn't learn anything from their history classes about Nazi Germany! Ah well, they deny the whole holocaust even happened. Plus I can't fault them for not studying history since 98% of Americans don't either. I could probably pass a law just like this in the United States that makes Muslims wear arm bands.

http://www.canada.com/components/print.asp...9b1240f&k=32073

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.

[FORSAKENR320]

this sounds way too much like anti-iran propaganda for me to put much faith in it

[Seeker]

the law is currently going through their legislative process, that's a fact

[pebkac]

Plus I can't fault them for not studying history since 98% of Americans don't either.

Yes Lance. You are the only person who took history in high school and in college. And for that I congratulate you.

[Seeker]

Yes Lance. You are the only person who took history in high school and in college. And for that I congratulate you.

i'm the only person that didn't sit in class texting on a cell phone or sleeping

and i'm the only person besides nickluto that actually tries to learn from history so as to not repeat the same mistakes

[FORSAKENR320]

i'm the only person that didn't sit in class texting on a cell phone or sleeping

and i'm the only person besides nickluto that actually tries to learn from history so as to not repeat the same mistakes

me

tutor




i feel ya about people not knowing their history though

[Spectatrix]

and i'm the only person besides nickluto that actually tries to learn from history so as to not repeat the same mistakes

What about me...?

[Divergent Realit...]

and im a history major.

lance ignores me.

irsad.

ir sadder than weasel.

[impala454]

yay lance learns from history... too bad he still can't learn that some extremist muslims != all muslims.

[GhostofTHECHICKE...]

i'm the only person that didn't sit in class texting on a cell phone or sleeping

and i'm the only person besides nickluto that actually tries to learn from history so as to not repeat the same mistakes

You REALLY are the most self-righteous person ever... move over timbo


Not to mention head up ass

[GhostofTHECHICKE...]

What about me...?

you don't believe his conspiracies whole heartedly = you never learned an ounce of history

[Seeker]

nickluto doesn't believe my conspiracies, and he was just the last person i remembered talking about history so i mentioned his name

spectatrix, forsaken, and divergent reality are also in my book as history pros... every else... sorry!

[GhostofTHECHICKE...]

nickluto doesn't believe my conspiracies, and he was just the last person i remembered talking about history so i mentioned his name

spectatrix, forsaken, and divergent reality are also in my book as history pros... every else... sorry!

[Jyan]

meh, the one thing I learned about history is that people do stupid things, causing more stupid things to happen, in an endless cycle of stupidness.

An the intelligent people use the stupid people to fulfill their own agendas.

[Mommy]

In 14 hundred 92, columbus sailed the ocean blue

Washington
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Monroe
Adams
Jackson
Van Buren
.... I could go on


hey guess what guys! I know what year the war of 1812 took place in. Guess ill never be on Jaywalking.