Déjà Vu
May 19th, 2006 by Wyatt
An article in the National Post in Canada is reporting that a new dress code law is on the way to passing in Iran. This law would require all Muslims to dress basically the same. That’s bad enough. More disturbingly, they report that it will also require non-Muslims to wear color coded strips at all times. Yellow for Jews, red for Christians, etc.
Read the full article here, but it boils down to this:
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.
At the time of this writing, there’s some doubt as to the veracity of the report. But, it does seem to be holding up longer than hoaxes of this type normally do.
True or not, the fact that it’s believable speaks volumes about the kind of dangerous leader Iran has in President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This man has called for Israel to be wiped from the map and for the supremacy of his selected group (in this case, Islam) and most of the world shrugs.
I feel somehow as if I’ve read about someone acting similary in the past.