Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – Holocaust Is a “MYTH” – But in Iran Wear A Yellow BADGE Anyway

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1220pm EDT update: Report may not be true.

255pm EDT: Allah investigates.

Now there is ASSociated Press: Iranian Lawmakers Debate Women’s Clothing

The measure has provoked concern outside Iran after a Canadian newspaper reported it included provisions that would require Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians and other non-Muslims to wear a patch of colored cloth on the front of their garments.

The National Post, quoting “Iranian expatriates living in Canada,” said the law would require “Iran’s roughly 25,000 Jews…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.”

In Tehran, legislator Emad Afroogh, who sponsored the bill and chairs the parliament’s cultural committee, told The Associated Press on Friday there was no truth to the Canadian newspaper report.

“It’s a sheer lie. The rumors about this are worthless,” he said.

Afroogh said the bill seeks only to make women dress more conservatively and avoid Western fashions.

“The bill is not related to minorities. It is only about clothing,” he said. “Please tell them (in the West) to check the details of the bill. There is no mention of religious minorities and their clothing in the bill,” he said.

Iranian Jewish lawmaker Morris Motamed told the AP: “Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament. Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here.”

But, how did the Canadian press picjk up on the story?

And, on the other hand, Captain Ed has Teheran To Reimpose The Nuremberg Laws?

In an interesting twist, Canada.com has pulled the original story, although Amir Taheri’s article is stil available. If true, this will send shock waves around the world — and if not, Canada’s National Post may never live down the damage.

Perhaps this will serve as a wake-up call, a reminder that history repeats itself and that lunacy runs in patterns. If Iran decides to impose these conditions on its religious minorities despite their long integration into Iranian society –Zoroastrianism precedes Islam in Persia, after all — then we will have arrived at the same position as Europe in 1935. It took only three years for the Nazis to stage Krystallnacht as a ruse to excuse the roundup of Jews, the tactical tipping point for the industrialized atrocities that would follow. Ahmadinejad will not likely wait that long. For those who claim that the cosmopolitan nature and rich cultural history of the Iranians will never allow such actions to occur in the Islamic Republic, they should recall that the Germans were among the most cosmopolitan of Europeans — until the Nazis took control.

Hopefully this turns out to be a false report. If not, history has warned us of the consequences. We will have no excuse if the Iranians attempt purification under more extreme procedures after this.

Hugh Hewitt has an update: Did They Or Didn’t They?

The story on the proposed Iranian law is being disputed, and Canada’s National Post has posted a new story casting doubt on its own report from this morning.
Some senior officials in Israel did not wait for confirmation to react:

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.”

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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].”

The Yellow Star

Canada.com: Iran eyes badges for Jews

Law would require non-Muslim insignia

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.

And you really want to FOOL AROUND with negotiating uranium enrichment with Ahmadinejad who says the Holocaust is a “HOAX” and says Israel should be “WIPED OFF THE MAP?”

And Hugh Hewitt weighs in with The Gathering Storm

And he agrees with Flap about the FOOLS who want to engage Iran when the Mullahs and Ahmadinejad REALLY don’t want to dance.