Iran: Badges For Jews
No, this is not Nazi-inspired:
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."
. . . because the Nazis got the idea for badging Jews and other groups from
Muslims. Funny (or not) how these ugly ideas get passed around and recycled
like this. According to David
Frum:
The first world leader to require Jews to wear distinctive badges (a yellow
belt and a yellow conical "dunce" cap) was Haroun al-Rashid, the Abbasid
caliph, who ruled in Baghdad in the era of Charlemagne, the late 700s and early
800s.Haroun’s idea was later copied by the popes, but long after it vanished from
the Christian world it endured in Islamic countries. Even in our own time, one
of the final acts of the Taliban in Afghanistan was to attempt to enforce a
distinctive badge on that country’s Hindu minority.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he wants to "wipe Israel off
the map", rants and babbles like Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and now
this?
How big does the writing on the wall have to be, folks?
Crossposted from WILLisms.com
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