Badges for Jews
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.
Hat tip: ST reader scmommy
Read more via Atlas Shrugs, AllahPundit (great link roundup there), Blog For All, Confederate Yankee
Update: There are some questions as to the veracity of this story.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Iran and Hamas: tag team terror partners
- Iran once again engages in saber rattling
- How the media undermines US national security
- Iran steps into the danger zone
- Iran paper to publish Holocaust Γ’β¬Λcartoons’
- Γ’β¬ΛWarmonger’ Bush: We’ll help defend Israel if needed
- “Big Five” refer Iran’s nuke file to Security Council
- Israel: prepared
- UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people
- Iran’s president has Γ’β¬Λdoubts’ about the Holocaust
- Iran leader: Israel should be “wiped off the map”
- No Jewdo?