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Iran's descent into fundamentalism continues...

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(Thnaks to BPSCG for spotting this.)

http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954f-546709b1240f&k=32073

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.

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Starting to make the Taliban look like moderates!

I doubt any international protest will alter this (as is speculated on in the article). Personally I think it is time to decide whether "we" (EU/China/Russia/USA) even engage with the current leadership.

However I suspect our concerns about oil will mean once again we ignore the inhumanity shown by the current Iranian leadership.
 
Darat said:
However I suspect our concerns about oil will mean once again we ignore the inhumanity shown by the current Iranian leadership.
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Well, their inhumanity shouldn't last more than a few more years. After all, there are only about 25,000 Jews in Iran, and having them wear yellow cloths should make them easy enough to round up and put into ghettos.

Then the Muslim Iranians can begin working on their final solution to the problem.
 
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BPSCG said:
Well, their inhumanity shouldn't last more than a few more years. After all, there are only about 25,000 Jews in Iran, and having them wear yellow cloths should make them easy enough to round up and put into ghettos.

Then the Muslim Iranians can begin working on their final solution to the problem.
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And the Christians and other religious groups; I wonder if they will discriminate against the non-Shi'ite Muslims as well?
 
Actually, the Iranian Baha'is are the ones that have it the worst. They're considered a schismatic sect by the theocracy and can be sent directly to jail (and tortured) just for being Baha'i.
 
I saw this one on snopes, and tried to find other sources other than the Post. All I could find was referances to how a 2004 Dress Code would adversly effect women.
 
Well, there is definitely one true fairly weird recent development in Iran... Ahmadinajad recently proclaimed that from now on, women would be allowed to attend soccer games in special stadium sections.... but then he had to back down and take it back.

There's another good reason why FIFA, with its laudatory accent on the world game promoting equality in every single sphere, should be disturbed by President Ahmadinejad, and not want him as a guest at the Mondial party. Bravely he had ordered the lifting of a blanket ban on Iranian women attending soccer matches, but recently succumbed tamely to the outrage that his instruction provoked among hard-line Shi'ite clerics. Now he's lined up again, this time with Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's decision that the idea of women watching from a separate section in the stands "to improve soccer-watching manners and to promote a healthy atmosphere at games" (as Ahmadinejad had argued) is simply too progressive.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/717608.html
 
Nations like Iran make me think of two deep questions:

1) Should powerful free nations always respect sovereignity?
2) Why did the CIA agree to stop assasination programs?
 
hh-dragon said:
Well, there is definitely one true fairly weird recent development in Iran... Ahmadinajad recently proclaimed that from now on, women would be allowed to attend soccer games in special stadium sections.... but then he had to back down and take it back.
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That would be a great idea, assuming he was also intent on continuing to use the stadiums for soccer and not beheadings for showing too much elbow.
 
Bandersnatch said:
I saw this one on snopes, and tried to find other sources other than the Post. All I could find was referances to how a 2004 Dress Code would adversly effect women.
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UPI's got it.

The world will ignore this, too, just as it did the genocides in the USSR, China, Cambodia, Rwanda, Sudan, etc. I think they only thing which would make the world call something a genocide and to act before it's too late is if the guy doing it was an actual guy named Hitler1. Never again, except this one last time.



1: And he'd have to be a German of Austrian origin with a funny moustache, too, apparently. The Palestinians elected a guy named Hitler to their legislature and the world still isn't convinced they want to kill the Jews.
 
The_Serpent said:
Begs the question.. What do the Atheists wear?.. Nothing?
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[Grammar Police]
"Begs the question" does not mean "raises the question."
"Begs the question" means to sidestep a question.
Example:
Q: "Did you rob the bank?"
A: "I've always believed in law and order."
[/Grammar Police]
 
So do people have any alturnative ways to find out how many zoroastrians are living there?
 
geni said:
So do people have any alturnative ways to find out how many zoroastrians are living there?
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Sure. Kill them all, pile them like cordwood, and have someone with a clipboard tick them off as they're bulldozed into mass graves. Sheesh, some people have no respect for efficiency.
 
Didn't the Taliban do this a few years ago (pre-9/11)? I recall something about that. Of course, it was before all the world's attention was pointed on them due to the attacks, and hardly anyone cared.

The_Serpent said:
Begs the question.. What do the Atheists wear?.. Nothing?
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As far as I know, atheism is illegal.
 
I'm starting to think we should lay waste to this country even if they don't have nukes.

BTW, we've been treated to demonstrations with "Bush = Hitler" banners for about six years now. Has anyone from the unhinged left started demonstrating that "Ahmadinejad = Hitler" yet? Seems like a more apt comparison, for my money.

Or do people find Ahmadinejad too difficult to spell?
 
BPSCG said:
I'm starting to think we should lay waste to this country even if they don't have nukes.

BTW, we've been treated to demonstrations with "Bush = Hitler" banners for about six years now. Has anyone from the unhinged left started demonstrating that "Ahmadinejad = Hitler" yet? Seems like a more apt comparison, for my money.

Or do people find Ahmadinejad too difficult to spell?
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I don't think it's a spelling issue so much as a general unwillingness to be named in a fatwah and taking up residence in Rushdie Estates for an undetermined amount of time. Funny how the evil, oppressive, invasive, toalitarian, fascist Bush regime has yet to inspire that kind of anxiety...
 
BPSCG said:
[Grammar Police]
"Begs the question" does not mean "raises the question."
"Begs the question" means to sidestep a question.
Example:
Q: "Did you rob the bank?"
A: "I've always believed in law and order."
[/Grammar Police]
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The phrase is commonly misused (I've done it myself), so the "true" meaning may eventually change.

But don't worry, there will always be plenty of work for the Grammar Police! ;)
 
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