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

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Arrian


Ah, I see your M.O. now. I thought you were just a conspiracy theory nut. Nope, it's worse.

-Arrian

Ah, I see your M.O. now. Although I knew you believed in the Bush regime's version of 9/11, I see it's worse. You actually believe Iranians were involved in the killing of the Jewish-American reporter in Pakistan.

[lord of the mark]

Originally posted by Slaughtermeyer

Ah, I see your M.O. now. Although I knew you believed in the Bush regime's version of 9/11,

Which is also the Democratic Party's version of 9/11. And the version of 9/11 accepted by every European democracy.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Ned

While there is no evidence of direct Iranian support of the killing of the Jewish-American reporter, there is plenty of evidence of Iran supporting anti-Israel terrorists, such as Hezbollah. Iran is officially a "terrorist" nation.

One man's terrorist is another man's death squad...or something like that.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-1433353,00.html

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6802629/site/newsweek/

[notyoueither]

w00t!

Canada's ambassador to Iran is being called onto the carpet!

I think our ambassador should refuse to discuss the topic until our citizen's remains are returned to Canada and her family is satisfied with the course of the Iranian legal system with regard to her murderers.

And then we should tell them that the government doesn't run our media. There might be a lesson therein for the beards.

[GePap]

Originally posted by lord of the mark

2. Legislation that is actually passed, would of course still be public knowledge.

Which invalidates your point, since if the law had passed, as was claimed by the exiles, it could be checked before publishing.

4. What the govt may be considering to put before the Majlis is probably difficult to know, and more so because of the absence of a free press.

And what laws are placed to be voted and debated really don;t matter. Lost of very stupid stuff is debated. What matters is what gets passed.

And if Iran were totalitarian, as NYE argues, the Majlis would be irrelevant.

6. Nonetheless, given the state of press freedom in Iran, exiles will have to continue to be an important source of information.

A deeply biased source with an ax to grind, and therefore one to be checked.

7. Amir Taheri continues to assert that there are elements in the regime considering this. There ARE legal distinctions impacting non-muslims in Iran.

So what if there "are elements" considering this? There are elements in any government considering doing deepbat ****.

8. Iranian exiles have been the source of info on the Iranian nuclear program, info that was later confirmed by the IAEA. It would be a dreadful mistake to write them off as sources of info.

Except that only a fool would move forward without checking things out, as the newspaper clearly did not.

Its called bad journalism.

[Ned]

Slaughtermeyer, that Mag really takes the cake. Transforming a liberator into another "Hitler" is way over the top. Add to that the term Saudi-Israelia to describe the M.E. is, well, absurd.

I can only hope you yourself don't believe such outlandish propaganda.

[Wezil]

Originally posted by notyoueither
I think our ambassador should refuse to discuss the topic until our citizen's remains are returned to Canada and her family is satisfied with the course of the Iranian legal system with regard to her murderers.

I agree, but will he?

[lord of the mark]

Heres what Taheri has said

"Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun. As far as my article is concerned I stand by it.

The law has been passed by the Islamic Majlis and will now be submitted to the Council of Guardians. A committee has been appointed to work out the modalities of implementation.

Many ideas are being discussed with regard to implementation, including special markers, known as zonnars, for followers of Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism, the only faiths other than Islam that are recognized as such. The zonnar was in use throughout the Muslim world until the early 20th century and marked out the dhimmis, or protected religious minorities. ( In Iran it was formally abolished in 1908).

I have been informed of the ideas under discussion thanks to my sources in Tehran, including three members of the Majlis who had tried to block the bill since it was first drafted in 2004.

I do not know which of these ideas or any will be eventually adopted. We will know once the committee appointed to discuss them presents its report, perhaps in September.

Interestingly, the Islamic Republic authorities refuse to issue an official statement categorically rejecting the concept of dhimmitude and the need for marking out religious minorities.

I raised the issue not as a news story, because news of the new law was already several days old, but as an opinion column to alert the outside world to this most disturbing development."

[Arrian]

Ah, I see your M.O. now. Although I knew you believed in the Bush regime's version of 9/11, I see it's worse. You actually believe Iranians were involved in the killing of the Jewish-American reporter in Pakistan.

Wow, you really are dense. My post wasn't about the factual issue (Iranian involvement or lack thereof with a crime in Pakistan) but rather your continued use of phrases like "zionist propoganda" and such, whilst using the iron cross as an avatar. There is a certain group of people who like to use the word "zionist" a lot in conjuction with words like lies, crimes, propoganda, etc.

By the way, I loathe G. Bush, and voted against him twice. My acceptance of the official, um "version" of what happened on 9/11 has nothing to do with Bush. Only loons like you seriously believe that 9/11 was a government conspiracy.

That Bush and his cronies have used & abused 9/11 the way they have does mean they somehow orchestrated it.

Look at Iraq. This administration can't plan its way out of a paper bag, and you think they pulled of a conspiracy on 9/11? LOON.

-Arrian

[dunk]

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

Originally posted by Zevico
I am not believing this yet. Article from Jerusalem Post and apparently a Canadian newspaper has run it as well. The Canadian paper (http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...e-bb91af82abb3) has said that this report is likely untrue. If it is true, then I do believe we have entered a storm of excrement.

Doesn't surprise me. A couple years ago, France passed a law forbidding anyone from wearing any sort of "religious garb" in schools. So, yamikas and Muslim head scarfs were outlawed.

However, discrete crosses were still allowed.

Iran's government also states that the holocaust was an overblown propoganda tool to steal Palestine.

[Vince278]

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

Originally posted by dunk
However, discrete crosses were still allowed.

If only the Iranians knew how to be discrete.

[Slaughtermeyer]

Originally posted by Arrian
Look at Iraq. This administration can't plan its way out of a paper bag, and you think they pulled of a conspiracy on 9/11? LOON.
-Arrian

Which is why the administration allowed the Mossad and Pakistani intelligence to take care of the most important details, such as the wire tranfer of $100,000 to Mohammed Atta as reported in the Wall Street Journal.

[Vince278]

I thought it was space aliens.

[Spiffor]

Re: Re: This has to be a joke: Proposed Iranian law requires minoriities to wear colo

Originally posted by dunk
However, discrete crosses were still allowed.

As well as discreet stars of david, or crescents.

If the Christians had any sort of obvious religious garb, you can trust that it would have been banned. We even invented the idea of "large crosses" in order to show that the Christians had something banned too.

[Vince278]

The Iranians are a model of discretion.