Iran to Require Non Muslims Wear Insignia

UPDATE BELOW!

With leftist idiots screaming "Bush=Hitler" the real nature of the evil Nazi regime has become a tad muddled. But anyone who has visited a Nazi death camp or knows their history will recall that the Nazi law requiring Jews to wear a Star of David sewn into their clothes was the beginning of a nightmare that eventually led to the deaths of nearly sixty million people in World War II.

So when word comes that Iran is set to pass a law requiring non-Muslims to wear identifying clothing or insignia, those who understand the significance of the move take notice.

This from Canada.Com:

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.

UPDATE: Well folks, Iran has denied the story is true and lefties are all in a lather demanding we retract the story. Of course Iran has also denied any interest in developing nuclear weapons, yet has installed nuclear processing equipment that has no civilian use.

Iran IS working on a new dress code. And whether or not they intend to require non-Muslims to wear identity badges, let's apply the lefty standard of the "seriousness of the charge" until we get more facts.

You know we slammed the lefties pretty hard for the CBS "fake but accurate" story on President Bush's National Guard service which miraculously appeared scant weeks before the 2004 election. But it was a story based on fake documents AND false assumptions (Bush family influence, special treatment, etc.).

In the case of Iran, we have the words of the Iranian President who can't go more than a day or two without threatening to destroy Israel, or war with the West.

As usual, our lefty pals are eager to gloss over this larger reality and go down the peace at any price road with Iran the same way they did with Nazi Germany. Sixty million people died in a conflict that could have been easily prevented (see post: Can't See the Forest for the Trees...).

After World War II, the victorious nations gathered and swore an oath: "NEVER AGAIN" which is etched in stone at the monument I viewed at Dachau, the first German Concentrataion Camp (post here). And yet here we are again, in a time when another nightmare could be prevented with relatively minimal effort compared to the horror of losing tens of millions in a nuclear exchange.

And again, those on the left, who claimed to be all concerned about the threat of nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviets in the 20th Century seem less than concerned about a nuclear threat posed by a certifiably irrational leader in Iran.