Badges? We dont need no stinkin' Badges!!

Sad news today: Iran considering a law that would force non-muslims to wear special badges...this sounds familiar.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...f-546709b1240f

Or Not.

Information from Ex-Patriots isn't that terribly reliable, seeing as they're usually biased by hatred and desperate for publicity anyhow. It was crap before the Iraqi was, and crap here as well.
See also

Quote:

But western journalists based in Iran told their Canadian colleagues that they were unaware of any such law.

And Iranian politicians - including a Jewish legislator in Tehran - were infuriated by the Post report, which they called false.

Politician Morris Motamed, one of about 25,000 Jews who live in Iran, called the report a slap in the face to his minority community.

"Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament," Motamed told the Associated Press.

"Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here."

Originally Posted by Cat9

Sad news today: Iran considering a law that would force non-muslims to wear special badges...this sounds familiar.
http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/n...f-546709b1240f

I find it amusing that the link works, yet the article is missing from there. If it was true, then perhaps we are seeing history repeating itself. Well at least I rest assured that even the Canadian media sucks like the American media.

Sounds like another faultless translation from the Washington Zion-Bagels Institute.

This story is all over the news wires. Time will tell if its true or not. The frightening part is how easily believable the story is given the psychotic nature of the current Iranian leadership. If it turns out to be true will anyone be suprised??

Conservative theocrat he may be, but psychotic, I don't think so.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/

Statements like this don't sound nuts to you? This goes beyond just conservative..into more of an insane world view.

Originally Posted by Wesker

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/

Statements like this don't sound nuts to you? This goes beyond just conservative..into more of an insane world view.

Yeah, it's called "Religion".

This is not going to go over well with any nation, especially after all the crap leading from that in WWII, i highly doubt we will let that history repeat itself. >_> anyone want to go swimming in the gulf of Iran?
Although i knew something like this would happen especially in a religious place like Iran i am just worried about the dispute between Israel and Iran getting a little bigger than hoped for, especially with Iran 'mining for nuklear energy' or so they say. Sadly, people do crazy things for reliogion...lets just hope that Iran doesn't do anything it might soon regret...

Originally Posted by Arainach

Yeah, it's called "Religion".

So you are equating ALL religion with a desire for violent overthrow of other religions and the rewriting of world history? Those damned Tibetan Buddhists and their desire to destroy all non Buddhists!!!!

Originally Posted by Cal

Conservative theocrat he may be, but psychotic, I don't think so.

Just thought I'd mention that I consider "conservative theocrat" and "psychotic" almost synonymous.

As for the topic, well . . . I hate the war in Iraq, but if Iran even dared to do this, I would fully support a pre-emptive strike to destroy them. Way too "Hitler-inspired" for my tastes. Iran was worse than Iraq even before the war in Iraq started.

Originally Posted by Wesker

So you are equating ALL religion with a desire for violent overthrow of other religions and the rewriting of world history? Those damned Tibetan Buddhists and their desire to destroy all non Buddhists!!!!

Buddhism is more of a philosophy then a religion. It's intellectualism outweighs the faith-based beliefs of a dualistic world.

It certainly doesn't have quite the colorful and violent history comparable to the monotheist religions.

Originally Posted by PattyNBK

I hate the war in Iraq, but if Iran even dared to do this, I would fully support a pre-emptive strike to destroy them.

Yeah, and let's use nuclear weapons to do it. Any means necessary to stop something so horrible from happening. Right? Isn't that the point? At this particular point you are not considering whether this story is full of shit or not. Just like Iraq's WMD stash.

I'd like to thank Watts for posting almost word-for-word what I would have said after reading the relevant posts. Buddhism is so different from Islam, Christianity and Judaism as to warrant entirely separate consideration. When the word "religion" is used as an umbrella term, it is perhaps wise to consider that the better term would have been "monotheistic religion". To authorise a pre-emptive strike to destroy Iran without substantial further consideration would be to repeat the mistakes of recent history.

That having been said, I find it equally hard to agree with Arainach's post. There are thousands of Christians and Jews, and even moslems in this world who are entirely moderate and inoffensive in their views. It seems to be the case that militant Islamic Fundamentalists represent a significant proportion of the world's moslem population, but they are hardly the basis on which we should judge the whole of it, any more than the Ku Klux Klan and Pat Robertson represent a basis on which to judge Christians.

I'd be more sympathetic to "normal" Christians and Muslims if they ever thought for themselves instead of just voting like Pat Robertson or Bin Laden tell them to.

Why are you being such an asshole, Arainach?

Originally Posted by Arainach

I'd be more sympathetic to "normal" Christians and Muslims if they ever thought for themselves instead of just voting like Pat Robertson or Bin Laden tell them to.

Why don't you quit using sweeping over-generalizations? Really, it's annoying.

I know plenty of Christians, including myself, who are not only capable of thinking for themselves but also actually do think for themselves. Personally, I have watched Pat Robertson once a long time ago, and I don't personally know of to many other Christians that watch him. I'm not Muslim, but I'm sure it's the same thing for them concerning Muslims listening to exremist leaders.

As for this badge craziness, although it does discriminate and all that jazz, this is Iran were talking about. It is a primarily Muslim state run by folks who themselves are Muslim and don't have any sort of checks and balances such as those we have in other democratic nations. Iran can get away with this sort of crap, how is this news?

Originally Posted by Wesker

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/12/14/iran.israel/

Statements like this don't sound nuts to you? This goes beyond just conservative..into more of an insane world view.

Have you even read the letter?

The Holocaust line's mistranslated and removed from context. And the continental re-establishment of Israel is grandstanding, pure and simple.

I like how Bush can say he's faith-driven and you're all 'yeah, no worries' but as soon as the same sort of thing's put through a Eurasian lens it's invariably NOW SEE HERE, ADOLF.

I agree with Cal.

He's not psychotic, he's just a religious nutjob, as is Bush.

The snigga's livin' in a theocracy. His religious beliefs are going to inform his policy to some extent.

Is it so much to assume that it's part of the job and role of the office, and not some indoctrination by whichever cleric's hand he gets seen holding?