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"Fred Stone" |
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19 May 2006 04:09:14 PM |
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Motion to Suspend Godwin's Law When Talking About Iran |
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961377561&pagename=JPost%
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New Iranian law to require Jews to wear yellow band
By JPOST.COM STAFF
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...
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
How can we connect the dots
if we cannot collect the dots?
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Iran Experts Cast Doubt On Jewish Dress Story |
20 May 2006 11:44:24 AM |
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Fred Stone <fstone69@earthling.com> wrote in
news:Xns97C8B854D4DC2fstone69@66.150.105.47:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961377561
&pagename=JPost
% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
New Iranian law to require Jews to wear yellow band
By JPOST.COM STAFF
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.
<...>
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=6626a0fa-99de-
4f1e-aebe-bb91af82abb3
Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue
A yellow badge worn by Jews in Nazi Germany during the 1940s.
Chris Wattie, National Post
Published: Friday, May 19, 2006
Several experts are casting doubt on reports that Iran had passed a law
requiring the country’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...
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
How can we connect the dots
if we cannot collect the dots?
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| User: "Ike Milligan" |
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| Title: Re: Motion to Suspend Godwin's Law When Talking About Iran |
19 May 2006 10:15:32 PM |
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Fred Stone wrote:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961377561&pagename=JPost%
2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
New Iranian law to require Jews to wear yellow band
By JPOST.COM STAFF
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.
These people are ignorant trying to imitate Hitler. They just don't know
much about the world. Hitler would have killed them all.
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| User: "j.m. #1491" |
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| Title: Re: Motion to Suspend Godwin's Law When Talking About Iran |
20 May 2006 01:49:30 PM |
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http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=9070ec32-f409-4161-9e96-7bae0436ccc3&k=66789
Quote:
[...] western journalists based in Iran told their Canadian colleagues
that they were unaware of any such law.
And Iranian politicians - including a Jewish legislator in Tehran - were
infuriated by the Post report, which they called false.
Politician Morris Motamed, one of about 25,000 Jews who live in Iran,
called the report a slap in the face to his minority community.
"Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament,"
Motamed told the Associated Press.
....
The Post's front-page story, which quoted Iranian expatriates living in
Canada, made headlines around the world and was the banner story on the
popular Drudge Report website in the U.S.
The story said Iran would require Jews to wear yellow labels on their
clothing in an eerie reminder of the buildup to the Holocaust. Adolf
Hitler forced Jews to identify themselves with yellow Star of David
patches.
Christians would need to wear red labels, and Zoroastrians would be
tagged with blue.
The law was still to be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide," Ali
Khamenehi, the Post reported.
Calls to the Post newsroom for comment on the developments around the
story was not immediately returned.
[However, if you think it may not happen sometime later:]
Non-Muslims in Afghanistan were required to wear arm bands under the
former Taliban regime.
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| User: "Fred Stone" |
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| Title: Re: Motion to Suspend Godwin's Law When Talking About Iran |
20 May 2006 05:50:43 AM |
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Ike Milligan <info@1accordion.net> wrote in
news:oRvbg.2784$921.2242@newsread4.news.pas.earthlink.net:
Fred Stone wrote:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961377561&pagename=JPos
t% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
New Iranian law to require Jews to wear yellow band
By JPOST.COM STAFF
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.
These people are ignorant trying to imitate Hitler. They just don't
know much about the world. Hitler would have killed them all.
"Mein Kampf" is real popular in Muslim countries. The title translates as
"Jihad".
--
Fred Stone
aa# 1369
How can we connect the dots
if we cannot collect the dots?
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