Iran eyes badges for Jews

[Psycho4Bud]

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.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f&k=32073

Oh ya, and this is the country that wants nuclear power? HELL NO! Keep callin' Americans Nazis and keep your blind eye to the real threat!:mad:

[Bong30]

lets just nuke those fuckers and help all the pursians...........

[Euphoric]

Iran is persia lol

[Bong30]

Iran is persia lol

thats what i said...... help the regular Iranian (pursian) that is being held hostage by radical islam


im not as dumb....... as you think you are

[Great Spirit]

thats what i said...... help the regular Iranian (pursian) that is being held hostage by radical islam


im not as dumb....... as you think you areDude, its PERSIAN!! lol.

I don't know about this article. I didn't see it on BBC. However I think it is ridiculous that Christians and Jews should wear badges. Radical Islam is a threat to the world too, as is Zionism and fundemental Christianity. The true meaning of Islam is simply to serve God and to serve others.

Remember too that it was the supposed Christians who lynched black people in the 19th century in Amerika. Amerika is supposedly a Christian nation, but yet slavery wasn't abolished until the 1860s!! The KKK is supposedly a Christian nations who hates non-whites. They remind me a fucked up version of the Knights Templar.

Just wait till Bush makes us liberals were our L badges!! lol.

[Bong30]

before or after he is gone



thanks for the correction on my spelling fuck face.........

[Great Spirit]

before or after he is gone



thanks for the correction on my spelling fuck face.........Oh hey it is my pleasure!! ANYTIME!! I AM HERE FOR YOU!!!!!!! :thumbsup:

[Shelbay]

lets just nuke those fuckers and help all the pursians...........
I agree..with that kind of thinking at this point in time..especially after what the real Nazis did..how can this happen again? Its not really going to is it? Make them wear a piece of yellow cloth?? At least its not the burning of numbers yet..I ran needs to be stopped..is Israel going to do it?

[Great Spirit]

I agree..with that kind of thinking at this point in time..especially after what the real Nazis did..how can this happen again? Its not really going to is it? Make them wear a piece of yellow cloth?? At least its not the burning of numbers yet..I ran needs to be stopped..is Israel going to do it?I would be more concerned about the Amerikans. Afterall, the Iranians recently never tried to invade a country, let alone 2 countries on false pretexts as the Amerikans did.

[Shelbay]

But its okay to make christians and jews wear colored cloth to identify them? Now that is scary..how do you think those jews feel in Iran? I would get my little behind out now....does that not make you worried that they might actually have a law passed to do this?

[greenherbs2006]

I would be more concerned about the Amerikans. Afterall, the Iranians recently never tried to invade a country, let alone 2 countries on false pretexts as the Amerikans did.
More concerned about Americans!!?? Lets try this...How bout I book you a one way flight to Iran then sit back and count the seconds before you return kissing and praising the red, white and blue...?

[Psycho4Bud]

I would be more concerned about the Amerikans. Afterall, the Iranians recently never tried to invade a country, let alone 2 countries on false pretexts as the Amerikans did.

You like to make comparisons with the U.S. and Nazis. How bout trying this one on for size; Don't you find it a bit of a coincidence that German Nazis made the Jews wear a yellow star and now the Iranian government is sticking to the same color code?

If they fired up the gas chambers you'd try blaming Halliburton for supplying the fuel! UNREAL!!!

[StPlacidus]

Americans will believe anything.

The National Post is sending shockwaves across the country this morning with a report that Iran's Parliament has passed a law requiring mandatory Holocaust style badges to identify Jews and Christians.
But independent reporter Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli Middle East expert who was born and raised in Tehran, says the report is false.
"It's absolutely factually incorrect," he told The New 940 Montreal.
"Nowhere in the law is there any talk of Jews and Christians having to wear different colours. I've checked it with sources both inside Iran and outside."
"The Iranian people would never stand for it. The Iranian government wouldn't be stupid enough to do it."
Political commentator and 940 Montreal host Beryl Waysman says the report is true, that the law was passed two years ago.
"Jews should wear yellow strips, Christians red strips, because according to the Iranian mullahs, if a Mulsim shakes hands with a non-Muslim he becomes unclean."

The National Post cites Iranian expatriots living in Canada as its primary source on the story.
The Post story can be read here: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f&k=32073
(You may have to highlight the link and copy and paste it into your browser.)

[Psycho4Bud]

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=us&ie=UTF-8&ncl=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3252830,00.html

Here's a google search with 17 links regarding this....what part of the world do you want confirmation from?

[StPlacidus]

Wonder who they got their info from, maybe someone whos wants to attack Iran...Americans you so funny:thumbsup:

[Bong30]

Wonder who they got their info from, maybe someone whos wants to attack Iran...Americans you so funny:thumbsup:

americans YOU so funny.... you are not from america ill tell you that.

why dont you tell us where you sit before you tell us where you stand?


like.... im a muslim from iran..... i love gumby, and piss, and GS.....

Amerika (notice the K) is the real problem bush is hitler blah blah blah

dont come on here claiming to be from the US and talk about it in the third person.

[StPlacidus]

americans YOU so funny.... you are not from america ill tell you that.

why dont you tell us where you sit before you tell us where you stand?


like.... im a muslim from iran..... i love gumby, and piss, and GS.....

Amerika (notice the K) is the real problem bush is hitler blah blah blah

dont come on here claiming to be from the US and talk about it in the third person.United States Of America...our president is George w Bush the vice president is Richard Cheney my governor is Rick Perry-----peace love & be merry

[Myth1184]

Dude, its PERSIAN!! lol.

I don't know about this article. I didn't see it on BBC. However I think it is ridiculous that Christians and Jews should wear badges. Radical Islam is a threat to the world too, as is Zionism and fundemental Christianity. The true meaning of Islam is simply to serve God and to serve others.

Remember too that it was the supposed Christians who lynched black people in the 19th century in Amerika. Amerika is supposedly a Christian nation, but yet slavery wasn't abolished until the 1860s!! The KKK is supposedly a Christian nations who hates non-whites. They remind me a fucked up version of the Knights Templar.

Just wait till Bush makes us liberals were our L badges!! lol.

It was the KKK, who just happened to be Christian

[Great Spirit]

Yea the whole story could be false. Don't forget to that 9/11 was done by our government and not hijackers. And our media did censor images and stories. Watch 9/11 In Plane Site and you will see. They are trying to gear up support for the war with Iran that is coming probably in June or July.

The question we have to ask is.....can we trust anyone anymore, let alone news???

This Iranian story was not on the BBC. Thats my first stop for news. So I don't know if the story you posted Psycho is factual.

But since Iran is a Muslim dictatorship and Amerika is slowly growing to become a fundemental Christian dictatorship after 9/11, I would not be surprised if BOTH countries made its citizens wear identification badges.

Psycho...before you go bashing Iran..why don't you look and see whats happening to your own country!!?? Afterall, your President did try to ban homosexual marriage in the US Constitution which supposedly guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! In Canada, gay marriage is legal eh!

9/11 = Reichstag Fire
Patriot Act = Enabling Act
George W. Bush = Adolf Hitler
NSA/CIA/FBI = SS/Gestappo
Post 9/11 Amerika = Nazi Germany
Amerikan Attack on Aghanistan = Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia
Amerikan Attack on Iraq = Nazi invasion of Poland

[Psycho4Bud]

So out of the 23 news sources from the above link, your going to go with the only one, 940 News, as an official source? What happens when BBC reports it???

I know this country isn't perfect, hell, we got politicians. They're all crooked! But I do know that we are a hell of a lot better than Iran for freedoms.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:

[Shelbay]

I don't even think its respectful to the jewish people to compare their loss from the Nazis to a ban on gay marriages..that is taking away from what the concern with IRAN is imo on this issue. Great Spirit..someone offered to buy you airfare..as an American do you think I would believe a Canadian source quicker than my own Country? And I'm not sure but didnt Iran say Israel HAD to go?

[StPlacidus]

So out of the 23 news sources from the above link, your going to go with the only one, 940 News, as an official source? What happens when BBC reports it???

I know this country isn't perfect, hell, we got politicians. They're all crooked! But I do know that we are a hell of a lot better than Iran for freedoms.

Have a good one!:thumbsup:
Checked out them news source you put up and most of them go back to the original source and the rest dont have links to their source....Dubious to say the least..
The source of the Iran story
"The Post was founded in 1998 by Conrad Black to combat what he saw as an 'over-liberalizing' of editorial policy in Canadian newspapers. Black built the new paper around the existing Financial Post, an established business-oriented newspaper in Toronto which he purchased from Sun Media in 1997. (Financial Post was retained as the name of the new paper's business section.)

From the beginning the Post has had a strongly conservative editorial stance, and has an editorial page featuring the writings of many prominent neo-conservatives and libertarians from the United States and Canada, including Diane Francis, Andrew Coyne, Mark Steyn and David Frum. This stance is typically mocked by those who refer to the paper as the "Fascist Post" or the "Zionist Post". A number of newspaper stands in Toronto holding the National Post for sale have been vandalized with these statements."


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Post

[Psycho4Bud]

So you don't think that Israeli papers know the truth on this issue. Considering they are in the region, I would think they would have a story of this magnitude confirmed.

[Shelbay]

This will push Israel?

[StPlacidus]

No the Western press is misleading all you have to do is go back to the lead up to the Iraq war. Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.

War sells....Go-ahead & convinces others that we need to bomb Iran....

[Breukelen advocaat]

Don't forget the hostages that they took in 1979.

Thanks to the Ayatollah, and the hostage Crisis, Reagan beat Jimmy Carter. George HW Bush was a VP, and then president, and then his son - twice.


Carter should have deposed the Ayatollah Khomeini (Ruhollah Mousavi),
a religious radical fundamentalist, and replaced him with a secular government run by a Shah.

If there never had been a hostage situation in Iran, the world may have been very different today.

[StPlacidus]

Retraction of this story from your own link P4B-----

Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue

Chris Wattie
National Post

Friday, May 19, 2006


Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law requiring the countryâ??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 yesterdayâ??s National Post reported that the Iranian parliament had passed a sweeping new law this week outlining proper dress for Iranâ??s majority Muslims, including an order for Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians to wear special strips of cloth.


Hormoz Ghahremani, a spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa, said in an e-mail to the Post yesterday that, â??We wish to categorically reject the news item.

â??These kinds of slanderous accusations are part of a smear campaign against Iran by vested interests, which needs to be denounced at every step.â?�

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 â?? including the lone Jewish member of the Iranian parliament â?? and they denied any such measure was in place.

Mr. Kermanian said the subject of â??what to do with religious minoritiesâ?� came up during debates leading up to the passing of the dress code law.

â??It is possible that some ideas might have been thrown around,â?� he said. â??But to the best of my knowledge the final version of the law does not demand any identifying marks by the religious minority groups.â?�

Ali Reza Nourizadeh, an Iranian commentator on political affairs in London, suggested that the requirements for badges or insignia for religious minorities was part of a â??secondary motionâ?� introduced in parliament, addressing the changes specific to the attire of people of various religious backgrounds.

Mr. Nourizadeh said that motion was very minor and was far from being passed into law.

That account could not be confirmed.

Meir Javdanfar, an Israeli expert on Iran and the Middle East who was born and raised in Tehran, said yesterday that he was unable to find any evidence that such a law had been passed.

â??None of my sources in Iran have heard of this,â?� he said. â??I donâ??t know where this comes from.â?�

Mr. Javdanfar said that not all clauses of the law had been passed through the parliament and said the requirement that Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians wear special insignia might be part of an older version of the Islamic dress law, which was first written two years ago.

â??In any case, there is no way that they could have forced Iranian Jews to wear this,â?� he added. â??The Iranian people would never stand for it.â?�


National Post, with files from Allan Woods, CanWest News Service
© National Post 2006

[skarz]

More concerned about Americans!!?? Lets try this...How bout I book you a one way flight to Iran then sit back and count the seconds before you return kissing and praising the red, white and blue...?

Iran suffers under extreme mainstream media stereotypes. Last year a bunch of pro snowboarders went there because Iran has some amazing ski resorts, and they were afraid they were going to get killed and all that jazz before they actuallly got there. Once they landed they found out it was very peaceful and everyone was very accepting of them no matter what town they went too. It's a great article in the magazine called "The Snowboard Journal" for anyone interested.

[krustythfreakinclown]

All I can say is, "What Jewish person in their right mind would spend a SECOND in Iran?"

I mean, Iran's clerics are just one step above the Taliban on the nutty-meter. Ever since the radicals in 1979 took power, I would have thought Iranian Jews (wow, what a weird combination) would have gotten the hell out of there in no time! Yet, 27 years later, there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran? That's fucking stupid!

Shit, I'd move out of my country in a second if I was a member of any group that has suffered systematic persecution for thousands of years, if a cabal of my enemies gained total control of the country. To stick around is nuts! Hell, I'd risk my life to leave the country illegally.

[Bong30]

All I can say is, "What Jewish person in their right mind would spend a SECOND in Iran?"

I mean, Iran's clerics are just one step above the Taliban on the nutty-meter. Ever since the radicals in 1979 took power, I would have thought Iranian Jews (wow, what a weird combination) would have gotten the hell out of there in no time! Yet, 27 years later, there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran? That's fucking stupid!

Shit, I'd move out of my country in a second if I was a member of any group that has suffered systematic persecution for thousands of years, if a cabal of my enemies gained total control of the country. To stick around is nuts! Hell, I'd risk my life to leave the country illegally.
no shit to that

[Great Spirit]

This article about the badges is still not on the BBC website. I am seriously starting to question it now.

Usually BBC would definately post an article of this magnitude. Such an act would be condemned by the UN and the US.

[PigSnout]

All I can say is, "What Jewish person in their right mind would spend a SECOND in Iran?"
Because it's home?! Sometimes no matter what the conditions are, there are always some people who have their roots firmly planted in the ground.

Reminds me of the late Sam Kinison rant screaming at desert dwellers complaining about lack of food. "It's a desert nothing grows here!!!"

[krustythfreakinclown]

Because it's home?! Sometimes no matter what the conditions are, there are always some people who have their roots firmly planted in the ground.

Reminds me of the late Sam Kinison rant screaming at desert dwellers complaining about lack of food. "It's a desert nothing grows here!!!"

Hey, if my house was on fire, I'd leave it regardless of how emotionally attached I was to it. To stay would be suicide.

Good Sam Kinison quote. Man, I miss him.