Iran eyes badges for Jews: Law would require non-Muslim insignia
May 19, 2006
FROM CANADA.COM (article no longer available at this link):
"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."
This Rabbi is entirely correct: this Iranian system of forcing persecutable minorities to wear colored badges is reminiscent of Adolf Hitler's Holocaust against Jews and other "devalued people", and preceded the actual killing by a number of years.
"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." (Ibid.)
The Simon Wiesenthal Centre has written to Kofi Annan, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, protesting the Iranian law and calling on the international community to bring pressure on Iran to drop the measure. 'The world should not ignore this', said Rabbi Hier. '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'. Mr. Farber said Canada and other nations should take action to isolate Mr. Ahmadinejad in light of the new law, which he called "chilling," and his previous string of anti-Semitic statements. 'There are some very frightening parallels here', he said. 'It's time to start considering how we're going to deal with this person'.
EXCERPT FROM CUTTING EDGE NEWSLETTER:
Let us go to Wikipedia Online Encyclopedia for background information.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION: "Yellow badge", From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"A yellow badge, also referred to as a Jewish badge, is a mandatory mark or a piece of cloth of specific geometric shape, worn on the outer garment in order to distinguish a person of certain religion or ethnicity in public. It is traditionally associated with the persecution of Jews ... The color yellow had been maligned since feudal times. Horses that were yellowish were considered worthless throughout society (as seen in the obsolete phrase, to curry Fauvel, a conventional name of a yellow horse). All other colors were used by knights on their shields, so yellow was left to brand the Jews."
You see, Europe had a history of persecuting the Jews long before Hitler came to power in 1933. Look at the list below:
1215 Fourth Lateran Council headed by Pope Innocent III declares: "Jews and Saracens of both sexes in every Christian province and at all times shall be marked off in the eyes of the public from other peoples through the character of their dress." (Canon 68)
1219 Pope Honorius III issues a dispensation to the Jews of Castile.
1222 Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton orders English Jews to wear white band, later changed to yellow.
1228 James I orders Jews of Aragon to wear the badge.
1267 In a special session, the Vienna city council forces Jews to wear Pileum cornutum (a cone-shaped head dress, prevalent in many medieval illustrations of Jews). This distinctive dress is an addition to yellow badge Jews were already forced to wear. " (Ibid.)
1269 France June 19. St. Louis IX of France ordered all Jews found in public without a badge (AKA rouelle or roue) to be fined ten livres of silver.
1274 Edward I of England enforces the decree. The badge was a piece of yellow cloth in the shape of the Tablets of the Law which had to be worn above the heart by every Jew over the age of seven.
1294 Erfurt: The earliest mention of the badge in Germany.
1315–1326 Emir Ismael Abu-I-Walid forces the Jews of Granada to wear the yellow badge.
1321 Henry II of Castile forces the Jews to wear the yellow badge.
1415 Bull of the Avignon Pope Benedict XIII insists the Jews to wear a yellow and red badge, the men on their breast, the women on their forehead.
1434 Emperor Sigismund reintroduces the badge at Augsburg.
1528 The municipal board of Venice allows famous physician and professor Jacob Mantino ben Samuel to wear the regular black doctors' cap instead of Jewish yellow hat for two months (period extended later), upon the recommendation of the French and English ambassadors, the papal legate, and other dignitaries numbered among his patients.
1555 Pope Paul IV decrees, in his Cum nimis absurdum, that the Jews should wear yellow hats.
1566 King Sigismund II passes a law that required Lithuanian Jews to wear yellow hats and head coverings. The law was abolished twenty years later.
However, Muslim persecution of Jews is almost as equally impressive, and it began much earlier than in Europe.
717 Caliph Omar II orders both Jews and Christians to wear a distinguishing mark. [1]
807 Persia Abbassid Caliph Harun al-Rashid orders Jews to wear yellow belt, blue for Christians.
853 Caliph Al-Mutavallil of Persia issues a yellow badge edict.
1005 Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim orders Jews of Egypt and the Land of Israel to wear bells on their garments and "golden calf" (made of wood) around the neck. In 1301, they were obliged to wear yellow turbans.
With this historical record reviewed, can you see how the Jews are very sensitive to any government which plans to force its Jewish citizens to wear a yellow badge of some sort?
SOURCE: Canada.com/Cutting Edge