This has to be a joke: Proposed Iranian law requires minoriities to wear colour bands

[FrostyBoy]

Nuke it, turn the remaining alive people into glass exporters.

[Ned]

Most Islamic countries are already fascist (authoritarian, socialist). Add a pinch of nationalistic racism to the mix and what do you have?

Nazism.

Even if the story is a hoax, the Iranians hatred of Jews is as virulent as Hitler's. While nominally this stems from religion, in reality, it stems from a form of nationalism in which Islamic nations view themselfve as one. Thus, most Islamic nations are very Nazi-like in their politics, not just Iran.

[civman2000]

Most Islamic countries are already fascist (authoritarian, socialist).

Didn't we just have the "fascism is socialist" argument in another thread?

[General Ludd]

Fascism is socialist because germany was ruled by the national socialist party.

Like wise, Stalin was a republican because he ruled the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

Does that mean that the USA is stalinist, because it's lead by republicans?

[Dinner]

The original source for this article was The National Post which is a noted right wing paper which typically shills for the hard right. Currently it is looking like a complete lie.

The National Post is sending shockwaves across the country this morning with a report that Iran's Parliament has passed a law requiring mandatory Holocaust style badges to identify Jews and Christians.
But independent reporter Meir Javedanfar, an Israeli Middle East expert who was born and raised in Tehran, says the report is false.
"It's absolutely factually incorrect," he told The New 940 Montreal.
"Nowhere in the law is there any talk of Jews and Christians having to wear different colours. I've checked it with sources both inside Iran and outside."
"The Iranian people would never stand for it. The Iranian government wouldn't be stupid enough to do it."
Political commentator and 940 Montreal host Beryl Waysman says the report is true, that the law was passed two years ago.
"Jews should wear yellow strips, Christians red strips, because according to the Iranian mullahs, if a Mulsim shakes hands with a non-Muslim he becomes unclean."

The National Post cites Iranian expatriots living in Canada as its primary source on the story.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Dis
I saw this the other day. I'm just speechless. So speechless, I didn't make a thread on it.

It almost seems like something out of nazi germany. How much longer before they are put into camps?

You are, of course, assuming there is anything true in that article. It doesn't look like that is correct.

[Sandman]

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Mark Twain, allegedly. This particular lie has probably already safely ensconced itself in the rightwing blogosphere.

[DinoDoc]

Ahmadinejad must be proud being the one that made the hoax sound credible in the first place.

[Dr Strangelove]

If theyn do put such a law into action it will be impossible for them to hide it. There is no point putting a law into action if you want to hide it.

[Wernazuma III]

OTOH, this wouldn't be a premiere for islamic countries.
Historically, such bands have been used throughout centuries in several islamic states (including muslim Spain IIRC) to keep religious "protected minorities" visible.
More recently, I'm pretty sure to remember that under the Taliban such bands have been used. I don't have proof for this, however.

[GePap]

If such a law was not passed under the more conservative rule of Khomeini, why the hell would it be passed now? The president in Iran is not the final head of state, and all laws are vetted by the Ayatollah's. If the Ayatollah's wanted such a law, they would have had it long aog, and its not like they have gotten more conservative in the last 20 years.

Ahmadinejad must be proud being the one that made the hoax sound credible in the first place.

Only because people are willing to make connections between: Sumptuory (sp?) laws [laws defining what people must wear], anti-zionist commentary, and Nazism. Easy connections to make, which is why this false story will as Sandman said become "truth" for the Right , but intellectually vacant as well.

[Ramo]

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19196947-1702,00.html

IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified.

"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed said in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so.

[GePap]

The only thing that surprises me is that the Canadain and Australian Right's were the first to get to this "story". I would have thought Rightwingers in Europe or the US would have made these claims first.

[Dis]

It's okay if we nuke them now before we find out the truth.

[Cyclotron]

I'm more surprised that there are still Zoroastrians! Alright Zorro!