He forgot Buddhists and Hindus.Members of the country’s Christian minority will be forces to wear a red ribbon, while those practicing the ancient Persian religion will be obligated to place a blue ribbon on their clothes.
At least he has assured us his nuclear program is for peaceful uses only. I would hate to see a peaceful regime like that all of a sudden turn violent.
This was in the National Post today, and our PM as well as Australia's responded to it, but the thing is, nobody is sure if its actually happened. There are conflicting reports.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...c66ad4&k=28534
In a follow up article they said experts say that its unlikely to be true
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...e-bb91af82abb3
Last edited by ZFBoxcar; 20 May 06, at 01:51.
If (...and its a big If,) the story is true then it almost staggers belief.
What'll be next ghettos...the camps?
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin
Reports Iran to tag non-Muslims denied by Jewish MP
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran's only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified.
"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed told AFP in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so.
The National Post newspaper quoted human rights groups as saying that Iran's parliament passed a law this week setting a public dress code and requiring non-Muslims to wear 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, it said.
Motammed said he had been present in parliament when a bill to promote "an Iranian and Islamic style of dress for women" was voted. "In the law, there is no mention of religious minorities," he added.
MPs representing Iran's Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian minorities sit on all parliamentary committees, particularly the cultural one, he said.
"This is an insult to the Iranian people and to religious minorities in Iran," he said.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard said Friday, during an official visit to Ottawa, that "anything of that kind would be totally repugnant to civilized countries, if it's the case, and something that would just further indicate to me the nature of this regime. It would be appalling."
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had only seen reports about the law but that he would not be surprised by them.
"Unfortunately, we have seen enough already from the Iranian regime to suggest that it is very capable of this kind of action," he said.
"It 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 abhorent."
Harper's parliamentary secretary, Jason Kenney, told the House of Commons that Canadian officials were trying to verify the claims.
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
Slowly but surely this irainian regime is going taliban way. Taliban had similar law wrt hindus & sikhs.
Hala Madrid!!
SICK. The colour correlation thing with the past is somewhat disgusting.
Note to people....
A jewish MP from Iran has refuted the claim as false, end of issue, it was purely made up and circulated to make Iran look intollerant and primarly anti jewish, no points for guessing who was behind that.
Even if it was true, it'd be about the same level of human rights violations people in France face, not being allowed to sport religious garments in schools or public office, this was just a little more widespread.
Better riot in the streets about it eh? Damn that western country nice enough to let them in but they not conforming at all.Originally Posted by platinum786
After I'm done troll hunting here I might hop on over to Roya Hakakian's site and see what she has to say about this being done to her fellow Iranian Jews that are in Iran right now.
It would not be the same level that people face in France - there is no comparison. In France I think the issue was that school children that were supoosed to be wearing school uniforms were opting for the Muslim garb instead.
Sounds like the start of a Iranian holocaust.
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@ Glow,
Let them in? Some people might have migrated, but get this some of us where born here, we are equal citizens and we damn well own every inch of this as you do.
We'll do as we please where we please and there is nothing anyone can do to stop us.
Roya Hakakian, possibly the most well known Iranian Jew has said this story is false.
True or false, it was really easy to believe of them, and that says a lot all by itself...
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