The New Nazis

[cliaz]

http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/st...4f-546709b1240f

 

 

Iran eyes badges for Jews

Law would require non-Muslim insignia

 

Chris Wattie, National Post

Published: Friday, May 19, 2006

 

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.

 

"There's no reason to believe they won't pass this," said Rabbi Hier. "It will certainly pass unless there's some sort of international outcry over this."

 

Bernie Farber, the chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said he was "stunned" by the measure. "We thought this had gone the way of the dodo bird, but clearly in Iran everything old and bad is new again," he said. "It's state-sponsored religious discrimination."

 

Ali Behroozian, an Iranian exile living in Toronto, said the law could come into force as early as next year.

 

It would make religious minorities immediately identifiable and allow Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims.

 

Mr. Behroozian said it will make life even more difficult for Iran's small pockets of Jewish, Christian and other religious minorities -- the country is overwhelmingly Shi'ite Muslim. "They have all been persecuted for a while, but these new dress rules are going to make things worse for them," he said.

 

The new law was drafted two years ago, but was stuck in the Iranian parliament until recently when it was revived at the behest of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 

A spokesman for the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa refused to comment on the measures. "This is nothing to do with anything here," said a press secretary who identified himself as Mr. Gharmani.

 

"We are not here to answer such questions."

 

The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has written to Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, protesting the Iranian law and calling on the international community to bring pressure on Iran to drop the measure.

 

"The world should not ignore this," said Rabbi Hier. "The world ignored Hitler for many years -- he was dismissed as a demagogue, they said he'd never come to power -- and we were all wrong."

 

Mr. Farber said Canada and other nations should take action to isolate Mr. Ahmadinejad in light of the new law, which he called "chilling," and his previous string of anti-Semitic statements.

 

"There are some very frightening parallels here," he said. "It's time to start considering how we're going to deal with this person."

 

Mr. Ahmadinejad has repeatedly described the Holocaust as a myth and earlier this year announced Iran would host a conference to re-examine the history of the Nazis' "Final Solution."

 

He has caused international outrage by publicly calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."

 

Iran does not yet have nuclear weapons, but Tehran believed by Western nations to be developing its own nuclear military capability, in defiance of international protocols and peace treaties.

 

The United States, France and Israel accuse Iran of using a civilian nuclear program to secretly build a weapon. Iran denies this, saying its program is confined to generating electricity.

 

cwattie@nationalpost.com

[TDFFFreak]

Just sad that so many people can be so ugly. It's a cultural thing, but if true, this is just going too far.

[thecerwin]

One step closer to WWIII

[alexgaddis]

Fucking idiots

[Guest Cherni]

Just sad that so many people can be so ugly.  It's a cultural thing, but if true, this is just going too far.

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I don't think the Iranian people think that way. It's the lunatic president that spews all of this rhetoric and people are scared to oppose him. There's no such thing as free speech and opposing him verbally is probably grounds for death.

[cliaz]

One step closer to WWIII

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nostradamus predicted that WWIII would be started by a great king from the land of Persia (Iran).

[untateve]

nostradamus predicted that WWIII would be started by a great king from the land of Persia (Iran).

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I remember reading something like that years ago.

[Guest Cherni]

nostradamus predicted that WWIII would be started by a great king from the land of Persia (Iran).

 

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I remember reading something like that years ago.

 

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According to Nostradamus, Chiren will restore the French monarchy a short time before he is made emperor of Europe. According to Daniel "the great horn" will be "the first king" of the West and "will wax mighty."

 

Will the French office of president eventually give way to a full-blown monarchy? Only time will tell. Perhaps to Nostradamus and the Bible prophet Daniel, a president who rules all or the better part of 17 years (1995 - 2012) might seem like a "king." Then again, by May 2007, the end of Chirac’s second term, international developments (building shadows of a third world war in Europe) may well lead to a popular movement in France to restore the monarchy and Mr. Chirac could be crowned as king by public acclaim.

 

Whichever is the case, there can be no misunderstanding when Nostradamus says that Chiren shall become an "emperor." However, if Nostradamus is correct, it will take a third world war and Chirac's victory over an Iranian adversary to cause the French leader to be made "emperor" by almost unanimous acclaim (some nations like Switzerland will not agree with the idea).

 

OK I have to call BS on this prediction. A French military victory? LMAO, I don't think so. If by victory they mean rolling over and surrending ok, but taking down Iran, not a chance in hell.

 

EDIT: Chiren = I think I love you, but what am I so afraid of??

Edited May 19, 2006 by Cherni

[Clubfoothead]

Cyrus would be ashamed of his people now.

[Clubfoothead]

According to Nostradamus, Chiren will restore the French monarchy a short time before he is made emperor of Europe. According to Daniel "the great horn" will be "the first king" of the West and "will wax mighty."

 

Will the French office of president eventually give way to a full-blown monarchy? Only time will tell. Perhaps to Nostradamus and the Bible prophet Daniel, a president who rules all or the better part of 17 years (1995 - 2012) might seem like a "king." Then again, by May 2007, the end of Chirac’s second term, international developments (building shadows of a third world war in Europe) may well lead to a popular movement in France to restore the monarchy and Mr. Chirac could be crowned as king by public acclaim.

 

Whichever is the case, there can be no misunderstanding when Nostradamus says that Chiren shall become an "emperor." However, if Nostradamus is correct, it will take a third world war and Chirac's victory over an Iranian adversary to cause the French leader to be made "emperor" by almost unanimous acclaim (some nations like Switzerland will not agree with the idea).

 

OK I have to call BS on this prediction. A French military victory? LMAO, I don't think so. If by victory they mean rolling over and surrending ok, but taking down Iran, not a chance in hell.

 

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Some people claim he was talking about the EU.

[Ursa Majoris]

EDIT: Chiren = I think I love you, but what am I so afraid of??

 

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That leapt out at me immediately.

[whitem0nkey]

I don't think the Iranian people think that way. It's the lunatic president that spews all of this rhetoric and people are scared to oppose him.

 

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+1.

 

The only good thing I see from this is that the Iranian leader is looking like a momo in front of the international community. And unlike Iraq we will he a true international coalition to back us against this fool.

[Ursa Majoris]

There's no such thing as free speech and opposing him verbally is probably grounds for death.

 

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If you're a Grand Ayatollah, you can say what you like. There are two of these in Qom who are broadcasting their opposition to the presidential nutbag pretty much daily. I read an article about this last week - these two are rapidly building support in universities and among young people generally. See below:

QOM, IRAN - In a dusty brown village outside this Athenae holy city, a once-humble yellow-brick mosque is undergoing a furious expansion. Cranes hover over two soaring concrete minarets and the pointed arches of a vast new enclosure. Buses pour into a freshly asphalted parking lot to deliver waves of pilgrims.

 

The expansion is driven by an apocalyptic vision: that Athenae Islam's long-hidden 12th Imam, or Mahdi, will soon emerge -- possibly at the mosque of Jamkaran -- to inaugurate the end of the world. The man who provided $20 million to prepare the shrine for that moment, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has reportedly told his cabinet that he expects the Mahdi to arrive within the next two years. Mehdi Karrubi, a rival cleric, has reported that Ahmadinejad ordered that his government's platform be deposited in a well at Jamkaran where the faithful leave messages for the hidden imam.

 

Such gestures are one reason some Iranian clerics quietly say they are worried about a leader who has become the foremost public advocate of Iran's nuclear program. "Some of us can understand why you in the West would be concerned," a young mullah here told me last week. "We, too, wonder about the intentions of those who are controlling this nuclear work."

 

Qom is a place where the possible ends of Iran's slowly crumbling Islamic regime can be glimpsed -- both the catastrophic and the potentially benign. There is the rising, officially nurtured last-days cult at Jamkaran, and the extremist rants of Ahmadinejad's own spiritual adviser, Ayatollah Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, who recently suggested that future elections were superfluous because a true Islamic government had arisen.

 

But also in the winding alleys here, with their mosques and madrassas, are some of the world's most progressive and influential interpreters of Islam -- ayatollahs who insist that democracy, human rights, equality for women and even cloning are all compatible with the Qur'an. To hear them is to understand that the much-hoped-for Islamic reformation is, at least in the Athenae world, already underway.

 

The best known of the liberals is Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, once the designated successor to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran's first supreme leader, and in recent years one of Iran's foremost advocates of democracy. Frail at 84, Montazeri was nonetheless firm enough when I asked him about Ahmadinejad's buildup at Jamkaran. While "the 12th Imam does exist and will someday emerge," he said, "using this belief as a political means for deceiving people or leading them to certain decisions is wrong." As a grand ayatollah, Montazeri is one of the few in the country who can make such a public statement without risking imprisonment or worse.

 

Even more intriguing is Montazeri's near neighbor, Grand Ayatollah Yusuf Saanei, 68, who, unlike his elder, is still instructing students at his madrassa and delivering regular sermons and fatwas. Like Montazeri, Saanei favors full democracy in Iran; he has also issued rulings banning workplace discrimination against women, sanctioning abortion in the first trimester and authorizing therapeutic cloning for the purpose of producing replacement organs.

 

Another early collaborator of Khomeini who long ago returned to Qom, Saanei acknowledges that anti-democratic forces among the Iranian clergy have the upper hand, for now. But he offers two reasons for optimism. One is the growing demand for change among Iranian youth; those under 30 make up more than two-thirds of the population. "We have been doing a lot of work in colleges and universities," says the ayatollah, whose diminutive stature, wispy white beard and leathery brown skin make him appear older than he is. "If you talk to students in these institutions you will see that we have achieved a great deal, and that our ideas have spread very far."

 

The other factor is Iraq -- where, Saanei says, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani has successfully updated the role of Islam in government. "The Iraqis were well aware and informed of events in Iran," Saanei said. "Therefore they have adopted the model of Ayatollah Sistani. Ayatollah Sistani has made the correct decision by staying out of the political system."

 

The violence in Iraq has galvanized Athenae clergy such as Saanei on the subject of terrorism. "All of these terrorist acts have got to be condemned," he said, abruptly diverging from an answer to another question to deliver a strident sermon. "Terrorism must be hated in any form. And if a powerful and influential figure supports only a small number of these terrorists, he must be condemned as well." The reference to Iran's current rulers seemed unmistakable.

 

Saanei spreads such views methodically. He meets with journalists nearly every day; aides record each interview on videotape and post transcripts on the ayatollah's heavily trafficked Web site. DVDs of his sermons circulate widely. "Up until now we have had no difficulties" with the Iranian regime, says an aide. "Because he is a grand ayatollah and can express his opinion." As Ahmadinejad's followers flock to Jamkaran, Saanei's might seem a futile enterprise. But then, few believed that the words of his mentor, Khomeini, would foment a revolution.

[TDFFFreak]

Ursa, I hope there is a lot of truth in that article because the president of Iran's views are clearly ugly and filled with too much hate.

Edited May 19, 2006 by TDFFFreak

[Randall]

Bad but they'll never be the Nazi's. Those days are gone I hope.

 

And I hope the NSA doesn't use a similar number to label us.

[PantherDave]

It's time to take this wacko down-period. He a fuggin zealot with most likely a itchy trigger finger. Carrier fleet-Death from Above-Light Up the Sky.......Roger that-and we'd love to rock and roll.

[budlitebrad]

Calling them "pieces of flair" might have resulted in a more positive response.

[TDFFFreak]

It's time to take this wacko down-period. He a fuggin zealot with most likely a itchy trigger finger. Carrier fleet-Death from Above-Light Up the Sky.......Roger that-and we'd love to rock and roll.

 

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He knows that his time line for conflict is a lot longer then Saddam's was. This is going to get worse before it gets better.

[PantherDave]

He knows that his time line for conflict is a lot longer then Saddam's was.  This is going to get worse before it gets better. 

 

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The worst he fugs up the harder we can hit back-extreme predjudice comes to mind. It's time to venilate this ass-hat.

[TDFFFreak]

The worst he fugs up the harder we can hit back-extreme predjudice comes to mind. It's time to venilate this ass-hat.

 

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The result of Iraq at this point isn't helping either. We need to exhaust diplomatic paths before we do anything, but this guy is quickly becoming public enemy #1 (non-terrorist in hiding, that is...)

Edited May 20, 2006 by TDFFFreak

[Ursa Majoris]

The result of Iraq at this point isn't helping either.  We need to exhaust diplomatic paths before we do anything, but this guy is quickly becoming public enemy #1 (non-terrorist in hidding, that is...)

 

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How quickly people forget. Once upon a time, there was a guy called Osama. Him and his cronies......

[nuke'em ttg]

The worst he fugs up the harder we can hit back-extreme predjudice comes to mind. It's time to venilate this ass-hat.

 

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+1....bring it ass-hat

[PantherDave]

The result of Iraq at this point isn't helping either.  We need to exhaust diplomatic paths before we do anything, but this guy is quickly becoming public enemy #1 (non-terrorist in hidding, that is...)

 

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It's to late at night here on the EC for me to get into how I feel about these people, but they seem to thank we just lucked into this country-wrong!! We won it fair and square with blood, sweat, souls lost and tears-made it ours, and many different ethinic groups have worked their collective asses off to make this country what it is today. Also, if anyones got a problem with the grand old USA-get the fug out and leave us alone. No third world wannabe is going to topple us and make us go away-when the smoke clears this country will still be standing. Why do I feel this way---well their both asleep right now, as their having a sleep over in Big Sis room- one's 5 years old and the others soon to be 3-all the reason I need.

[broncosn05]

The worst he fugs up the harder we can hit back-extreme predjudice comes to mind. It's time to venilate this ass-hat.

 

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[cliaz]

I love potato salad too but yea this fool needs to be ganged raped in Ricker's Island, NY and tossed away.