Identifying badges for religious minorities in Iran
Scary shit via Drudge:
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.…
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.”
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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.
You know, the same President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that publicly stated the Holocaust was a myth and called for Israel “to be wiped off the map.”
UPDATE: I’ve gotten a couple of comments about this report being false (thanks Levide), however it’s still up on Drudge, as well as Candada.com. Let’s hope it’s a fake.
UPDATE 2: Okay, so americablog is also calling bullshit on this report (scroll down to “Would you like a little Bush administration disinformation with your morning coffee?”). That’s nice, even though I still feel like I’ve just been punched in the gut. Um, TGIF, I guess.
Be careful what you link to. There are reports coming out that this could just be disinformation from the Defense Department. Check out Americablog.