Posted on 05/19/2006 3:21:42 PM PDT by Melissa 24
A new dress-code law reportedly passed in Iran this past week mandates the government to make sure that religious minorities - Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians - will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public, the Canadian National Post reported on Friday.
Under the new law, which still awaits final approval from Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, while Christians will be required to don red ones.
If the law is approved, it is scheduled to go into effect at the beginning of next year.
Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter responded to the new law Friday night, saying, "Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."
Furthermore, according to the law, the Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear "standard Islamic garments" designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions.
The purpose for the law was to prevent Muslims from becoming najis "unclean" by accidentally shaking the hands of non-Muslims in public.
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I'm not Jewish though these people can shove off.
This has purportedly been debunked according to info on the other thread about this. (Not sure I believe the debunking yet. Maybe the 24 hour rule needs to go into effect.)
Cheers - Dinah
Can anyone tell me what these colors mean to these people.
I mean like in my neck of the woods, yellow means coward and red means evil. Is it the same to them.
Do all tourists when getting off the airplane get yellow armbands? What if everyone decided to wear one!
Not a peep from the MSM on this development...
FOX News had it all morning long.
What about ABCNBCCBSCNNNYTIMESWASHPOSTLATIMESCHICAGOTRIB?
whoops, sorry, I meant to edit out the curse word but my fingers moved to quick and I have a habit of hitting Tab*5 Enter. sorry
/sarc
Tab*5 space enter lol
Maybe I should have went to bed last night lol
all i know is the nazis made the Jews wear a yellow Star of David on their person at all times
except for their last shower
Whose outrage? Islam? Yah,gimme a break.
Western outrage? Such outrage will be demonstrated by Presbyterians,Episcopalians and Reform Jews divesting themselves from companies that help Israel oppress her peace loving neighbors.
Israeli outrage is,at the moment,being formulated at Command Headquarters of the IDF.
I'd like to be able to put forth a reason to give Iran the benefit of the doubt on this...but based on their recent behavior, I really can't think of one.
I hope they're right.
Better idea, why not start painting our bombs with yellow and read bullseyes so when they start falling they will look like eyes coming at them. However, first we should wait and see.
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