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May 19, 2006

Iran: Islamist Regime To Make Jews Wear Yellow Bands

Following on from the anti-semitic and anti-Isaeli comments made by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on October 26 last year, when he said Israel should be "wiped off the map", the Iranian regime has become more and more hostile to Israeli and Jewish interests. On Al Quds Day, Iran'ss national day of anti-Israeli hate on 28 October, the president walked amongst his followers who chanted "Death to Israel". On TV that day, children were regaled with cartoons which depicted Jewish soldiers as red-eyed murderers of civilians.

The rhetoric got worse as Iran's foreign minister Hamid Reza Asefi blamed Israel for committing the bomb atrocities in Amman Jordan on November 9, even though these were the handiwork of Al Zarqawi's "Al Qaeda of the Two Rivers."

Ahmadinejad further denied the existence of the holocaust in December and reiterated his desire to be disbanded. He suggested Israel should be relocated to Europe or North America. In January the regime's press began calling Islamic Jihad terrorists "martyrs", and he hinted ominously later in the month that soon there would be in the Middle East a "final war".

It was disclosed on January 22 that Iran had donated $10 million to terrorist group Islamic Jihad in Israel, for the purposes of attacks. In March, Israel's defence minister, Shaul Mofaz, announced that extra money had been given by Iran to this group to finance attacks prior to the general election.

In April, Ahmadinejad described Israel as a "rotten, dried tree" and said that the nation would be "annihilated in one storm." The comment was announced four days after he announced his country's entry to the "nuclear club".

We discussed the bizarre theology of Ahmadinejad and his mentor, Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, who believes that the only way to bring back the Shias' 12th imam, is to instill chaos in the world. Attacking Israel is certainly one way to induce international chaos.

Now, reports today from Jerusalem Post, from Ynet News and All Headline News show that Ahmadinejad's hatred for Jews has reached its most bizarre pitch so far, with a ruling which is directly copied from the labeling used by Hitler in the prelude and enaction of the Shoah, or Holocaust.

There are about 25,000 Jews living in Iran, and the Iranian Parliament, or Islamic Majlis, has this week passed a law which demands that Jews will be forced to wear a yellow strip of cloth sewn into the front of their clothes.

This is exactly parallel to the Nazi decision to force Jews to wear a yellow star, to identify themselves as "different" and to open them up to vilification and discrimination which eventually ended up in concentration camps and gas chambers. Even in the death camps, Jews were forced to wear the yellow stars.

The Simon Weisenthal Centre has written to the secretary-general of the UN, Kofi Annan, demanding that international pressure be brought to bear on Iran to compel the nation to revoke the ruling. Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean of the centre in Los Angeles said: "The world should not ignore this. 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."

Efraim Zuroff, director of the Weisenthal Centre in Jerusalem said: "This is simply a catastrophe; it automatically brings one back to the Holocaust, and we do not need to remind the Israeli public that the yellow badges came just before the expulsion and extermination....There is no consolation in the fact that Christians are being labeled as well. The Iranian regime has completely lost its mind. The world cannot stand idly by, and I'm sure this development will place the Iranian issue at the top of the agenda during Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's visit to Washington."

The Majlis' new law states that while Jews must wear yellow strips, Christians must wear red identification markers, and Zoroastrians must wear blue cloth.

The law is thought to become officially enforced within a few months. Apparently this law was originally drafted during the presidency of the so-called "moderate" Ayatollah Khatami in 2004, but had been blocked. The decision to revoke the block on the law was apparently authorised following Ahmadinjed applying pressure personally.

We spoke before of attempts by Iran to standardise dress for Muslim women citizens, and the law which discriminates against Jews also has a provision to compel the Islamic populace to wear "standard Islamic garments."

Earlier this evening, Israel's internal security minister Avi Dichter said: "Whoever makes Jews anywhere wear the yellow star again, will find themselves in a coffin draped in black."

The idle notion that the Muslim world is totally beyond making alliances with Nazis, a fancy entertained by PC idealists, is contradicted by the behaviour of the "Mufti of Jerusalem", Amin al-Husseini (pictured). During the 1930s, the "Mufti" engaged in slaughters of Jews in Jerusalem, and then went to Germany where he was welcomed by Hitler. Amin al Husseini then went on to found a regiment of Muslim Nazi soldiers in Bosnia. Details of his life and atrocities can be found here.

Update: The Canadian National Post now claims that the story may be unfounded. The story had broken in the National post yesterday, in an article written by Iranian analyst Amir Taheri. The Iranian embassy in Ottowa has denied reports of this ruling being passed. A London-based Iranian analyst, Ali Reza Nourizadeh claims that the ruling for the ethnic minorities was a minor "secondary ruling" to the main legislation, the national uniform law, concerning Islamic dress. Nourazideh claimed the supporting clause was unlikely to be passed into law.

An Iranian born Israeli expert, Meir Javdanar, says that he has contacted sources within Iran, who have have not heard of the ruling being passed, so he had been unable to validate the story. He said: "I don't know where this comes from."

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at May 19, 2006 5:03 PM

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