Titled: Iranian Law: Non Muslims Must Wear Colored Badges
Wizbang brings us news of an Iranian law that requires non-muslims to wear colored badges. It's obviously not enough to deny the Holocaust - they're starting to re-enact it:
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."
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.
Of course, all such rumors should be treated with a cynical eye at least until they have been corroborated.
The more amazing fact is that there are still 25,000 Jews in Iran, though again this may not be all it seems:
Jews who apply for a passport to travel abroad must do so in a special bureau and are immediately put under surveillance. The government does not generally allow all members of a family to travel abroad at the same time to prevent Jewish emigration. Again, the Jews live under the status of dhimmi, with the restrictions im posed on religious minorities. Jewish leaders fear government reprisals if they draw attention to official mistreatment of their community.