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May. 19, 2006 18:54 | Updated May. 20, 2006 0:03
New Iranian law to require Jews to wear yellow band
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A new dress-code law reportedly passed in Iran this past week mandates the government to make sure that religious minorities - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians - will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public, the Canadian National Post reported on Friday.
Under the new law, which still awaits final approval from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, while Christians will be required to don red ones.
If the law is approved, it is scheduled to go into effect at the beginning of next year.
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter responded to the new law Friday night, saying, "Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."
Furthermore, according to the law, the Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions.
The purpose for the law was to prevent Muslims from becoming najis "unclean" by accidentally shaking the hands of non-Muslims in public.
Ophir Paz-Pines, minister-without-portfolio responsible for culture, sports, science and technology, who is also a member of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset, called on the government's secretary to ensure the issue be immediately addressed during the next Cabinet meeting.
"The State of Israel was created after the Holocaust in order to ensure it would not be repeated. The yellow star is a bright red warning sign that obligates us to muster the entire world in the face of events there [Iran]."
Paz-Pines also called on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to make the issue his top priority when he visits Washington D.C. next week to meet US President George W. Bush.
Meretz Chairman Yossi Beilin said, "Israel could no longer be satisfied with warnings, and that the moment Jews are forced to wear the yellow band, Israel must act to evacuate all Jews from Iran." He added that, "Israel must stand at the forefront of efforts to separate Iran's crazy and Hitlerite regime from government control."
"The new law resembles the Holocaust," said head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, Rabbi Marvin Heir, and warned that, "Iran was nearing Nazi Ideology."
According to Army Radio, Wiesenthal Center officials sent a letter to United Nations Director General Kofi Annan urging him "not to ignore" the new law, and reminded him that, "The world ignored Hitler for many years."
The new law was drafted during the presidency of Muhammad Khatami in 2004, but was blocked. That blockage, however, has been removed under pressure from current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
According to Ahmadinejad, reported the National Post, the new Islamic uniforms will establish "visual equality" for Iranians as they prepare for the return of the Hidden Imam.
The final shape of the uniforms is yet to be established but there is consensus on a number of points.
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations released a statement saying, "We have been seeking to clarify these reports but do not yet have confirmation. There are clear indications that various Iranian government agencies, including the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, are working on new uniforms to be introduced in the fall.
"While such legislation would be reminiscent of dark periods in the past, like the Nazi era when Jews and others had to wear identifying badges, it is also consistent with the racist and extremist ideology propagated by President Ahmadinejad.
We are monitoring the situation and seeking to ascertain the facts in order to determine the appropriate response."
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This is ridiculous!
The Taliban did it for Hindus and non Moslems to wear armband in Afghanistan!
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa72977.000/hfa72977_0.HTM
I think that these radical elements of Islam are losing their balance!
I sure do hope that there is some mistake somewhere in reporting this!
I cannot believe that people are becoming so racial and intolerant.
Last edited by Ray; 19 May 06, at 23:21.
"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."
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It turns out it might not be true, hope not anyways.
What a bunch of retards
I did like the response of the Israeli Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter :
"Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."
This comes from expats and has been so far denied by the Iranian government...
To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway
Agreed...Originally Posted by ZFBoxcar
No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry
If this becomes law, will concentration camps follow? The world said "never again" 60 years ago. Expect war guys, its just a matter of time.
Cheers!...on the rocks!!
in sanskrit there is a saying "vinash kale viparith buddhi", which means when the edath comes near the people start having extreme ideas(or some thing like that).
The latest.ran dress diktat
An Iranian girl in Isfahan. (AP)
Tehran, May 20 (AP): Iran’s conservative-dominated parliament is debating a draft law that would discourage women from wearing western clothing, 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 lawmakers debated it this week, but the parliament has not passed the bill. If adopted, the measure would require approval by the Guardian Council, a constitutional watchdog.
The measure has provoked concern outside Iran after a Canadian newspaper reported it included provisions that would require Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and other non-Muslims to wear a patch of coloured cloth on the front of their garments.
Canadian newspaper The National Post, quoting “Iranian expatriates living in Canada”, said the law would require “Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews... 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.”
In Tehran, legislator Emad Afroogh, who sponsored the bill and chairs the parliament’s cultural committee, said yesterday that there was no truth to the Canadian newspaper report. “It’s a sheer lie. The rumours about this are worthless,” he said.
Afroogh said the bill seeks only to make women dress more conservatively and avoid western fashions. “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.
Iranian Jewish lawmaker Morris Motamed said: “Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament. Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here.”
A diplomat at Iran’s mission to the UN in New York called the report “completely false”. “We reject that. It is not true.”
http://www.telegraphindia.com/106052...ry_6249305.asp
"Some have learnt many Tricks of sly Evasion, Instead of Truth they use Equivocation, And eke it out with mental Reservation, Which is to good Men an Abomination."
I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to.
HAKUNA MATATA
WTF??
Scumbags.
The Iranians are living up to their reputation of being one of the most disliked people on the planet.
They are thrusting war on the West.
"There is no excellence in all this world that can be separated from right living." - David Star Jordan My Blog
Perhaps we should be thinking of excuses as to why we didn't act when we could to end this nightmare before it starts? Will millions have to die, instead of thousands? We learned nothing from WW2 and Hitler and Chamberline.
Actually there a large row going on about the corectness of this tibit, Irans certanly denying it. Denial of a bold move dosent realy fit into Iran's MO
Iranian Jews have denied it. So that should be that.
"Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality." ~ George William Russell
already posted on the forum and refuted.
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