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 Fri May 19, 2006 2:06 pm Iran to tag non-Muslims |
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| Quote: | OTTAWA (AFP) - The Canadian and Australian prime ministers expressed concern at unconfirmed reports that said Iran may force non-Muslims to wear colored badges in public so they can be identified.
The National Post newspaper reported Friday, citing human rights groups, that Iran's parliament passed a law this week that sets a public dress code and requires non-Muslims to wear a 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, according to the newspaper.
"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," Australia's Prime Minister John Howard told reporters during an official visit to Ottawa.
"It would be appalling," he added.
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he had "only seen reports" about the law but commented 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."
Earlier, Harper's parliamentary secretary, Jason Kenney, told the House of Commons that Canadian officials were trying to verify the claims and said Ottawa is "deeply concerned".
"Should these reports turn out to be true, this government will condemn in the strongest terms possible this kind of revisiting of the darkest period of the last century. It is something that the entire civilized world should condemn," Kenney said. |
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20060519/wl_canada_afp/iranrightsreligion
I can see why people don't like this. This sounds WAY too much like how the Nazis tagged the Jews with Stars of David.....
I don't see any good reason to do this other than to easily target the non-muslims.
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Lord Borg
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| Fri May 19, 2006 2:16 pm |
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I'm disturbed by this to...I really don't like this idea, I agree it sounds alot like a way to target non-muslims...
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Valathous
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| Fri May 19, 2006 2:20 pm |
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Oh, this is excellent! Next step: big signs on their chests that say "bomb me!"
Frankly, this is just wrong. Yes, it is similar to the tagging of the Jews, and yes, it could conceivably make it easier for terrorists to kill more of their target pedestrians. Of course, that's just the extreme of the matter, it may not happen. Hopefully doesn't happen and I'm just being slightly paranoid...
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Omet'Ikilan
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| Fri May 19, 2006 2:21 pm |
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YEEESH....umm... Im kinda scared...sounds to me like the makings of another war 
Yea...I dont think Iran should make non muslims wear a "yellow blue or red" strip of cloth, its too much like the Star Of David...All this could do for Iran is make it so that it is easier to make Rascist comments or rascist movements. It kinda makes you suspect what the Irainian government is planing...
And with Iran also planning to buy the Venezualan F-16 fleet...it sounds like they're preping for war...
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Republican_Man
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| Fri May 19, 2006 4:32 pm |
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Founder, you hit it right on the ball. Iran is the modern-day Nazi Germany. Tagging non-Muslims (like Jews), denying the Holocaust, talking about the destruction of the Jewish state of Israel...Yeah, they're Nazi Germany alright.
EDIT: Rush talked about this on his show today, btw.
| Quote: | RUSH: (story) "The Iranian government, led by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has decided that badges will be required for non-Muslims in Iran. Human rights groups [amazingly], are raising alarms over this." I don't recall human rights groups coming to the defense of Christians lately, but I guess they've got no choice here. Human rights groups, "raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the consultant's Jews and Christians to wear colored badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims. 'This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,' said Rabbi Marvin Heier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. 'Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.'" Well, he's right, but he's not the first to say it. Let's go back to me, April 17th on this very program.
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RUSH ARCHIVE: Churchill had this problem back in the thirties with Hitler. It's eerie how similar this is. Hitler was rearming; he was engaged in turning his population into a bunch of psychos. He was creating the Nazi Party, and Churchill is out there warning everybody, and nobody wanted to listen to him -- and we got the era of Neville Chamberlain, and because nobody wanted to listen to Churchill, nobody thought he knew what he was talking about -- because nobody wanted war.
"Ah, let him do what he wants to do. He's not going to attack us. It doesn't matter," and there's an eerie parallel here because while the Iranians are doing the same thing, a bunch of experts say, "Ah, it's just bluster. They can't get a bomb for ten years. We don't need to do anything," and we've got all these experts in this country saying (breathless), "If we do anything in Iran, it's going to look just like Iraq! It's going to be a mistake!"
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RUSH: The parallels are eerie. Once again a demonstration of this program keeping you on the cutting edge of societal evolution.
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