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From: Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:54 AM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: RE: Iran eyes badges for Jews Bruce - The discriminatory clothing and badges required of dhimmis predate even the Crusades. (The Yellow Badge for Jews began in Europe in about 1215.) According to the Pact of Omar - not Omar I (634-644 AD), but Omar the II (717-720 AD) - Christians and Jews had to wear variously colored turbans, the colored shoes to which you referred, mismatched shoes, and, in some cases, overly large crosses for the Christian and large images of a cow/calf for the Jews (because of the story of the Golden Calf). When the European Christian powers interfered with various sections of the Ottoman Empire and were thus resented, Christian dhimmis would sometimes borrow the turbans of their Jewish neighbors so as to be able to walk in the streets unmolested. Iran/Persia was particularly bad: Jews were forbidden to leave their homes on rainy or snowy days, so that their "taint" would not wash off their bodies and pollute the soil. A Jew who went "window shopping" in a Muslim store and inadvertently touched the merchandise would be forced by the store owner to buy the article at whatever price he determined! As usual, Bat Ye'or is a good source for information on the dhimmis. _____ From: Bruce Tefft [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 11:30 AM To: Bruce Tefft Subject: Iran eyes badges for Jews Even predates the yellow stars of the Nazis...when Muslims captured Jerusalem, they required Christians and Jews to wear blue or red shoes, but never green (that was reserved for Muslims) so they would know whom it was permitted to rob and beat. Bruce http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-954 f-546709b1240f <http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=11fbf4a8-282a-4d18-95 4f-546709b1240f&k=32073> &k=32073 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." [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. 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