Iranian dress code for Non-Muslims a “lie”

[babagrr]

IslamOnline.com
URL of article: = http://www.islamonline.com/cgi-bin/news_service/world_full_story.asp?service_id=2214
5/21/2006 9:30:00 AM GMT

Iran has strongly denied a recent article published by Canadian daily `National Post', claiming that the Islamic Republic may force non-Muslims to adopt a particular dress code in public.

In its letter to the Canadian daily, the press attaché of the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, Hormuz Qahramani, dismissed the article.

In its Friday edition, Canada’s “National Post” claimed that "a new dress-code reportedly passed in Iran this past week mandates the government to make
sure that religious minorities -- Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians -- will have to adopt distinct color schemes to make them identifiable in public."

"The Iranian government has envisioned that all Iranians wear standard Islamic garments designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions," the article further claimed, adding that the alleged dress code law stipulates that "Jews will have to wear a yellow band on their exterior in public, (Zoroastrians blue), while Christians will be required to don red ones."

The letter moreover, stressed that those claims against the Islamic Republic of Iran were part of certain states or individuals’ efforts against Iran.

Also Maurice Motamed, representative of the Jewish minority in the Islamic Consultative Assembly (Majlis), dismissed the accusation as "complete fabrication."

Motamed noted that the alleged dress code was nothing by a lie, accusing those who believed and circulated that lies of using the fake report to achieve
certain political ends.

Motamed, moreover, said that such claims are an insult to the religious minorities living in Iran.

As expected, the U.S., together with Canada and Australia were quick to launch a severe attack against the Iranian government, already under mounting international pressure over its nuclear program.

Although they admitted they had no further details on the Non-Muslims dress code claim, the three states didn’t hesitate to launch an offensive, yet in
separate statements, with Washington and Ottawa seizing the chance to evoke the memory of the atrocities of Nazi Germany.

“If you did have such an occurrence, whether it was in Iran or elsewhere, it would certainly be despicable,” said U.S. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.

“I think it has clear echoes of Germany under Hitler.”

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Or Iraq under u.s.

[rubiesand]

Also this:


Jewish MP denies Iran badge plan
From correspondents in Tehran
20may06

IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified.

"This report is a complete fabrication and is totally false," Maurice Motammed said in Tehran. "It is a lie, and the people who invented it wanted to make political gain" by doing so.
The National Post newspaper quoted human rights groups as saying that Iran's parliament passed a law this week setting a public dress code and requiring non-Muslims to wear special insignia.

Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear a yellow, red or blue strip of cloth, respectively, on the front of their clothes, it said.

Mr Motammed said he had been present in parliament when a bill to promote "an Iranian and Islamic style of dress for women" was voted. "In the law, there is no mention of religious minorities," he added.

MPs representing Iran's Jewish, Christian and Zoroastrian minorities sit on all parliamentary committees, particularly the cultural one, he said.



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[Wahid]

IRAN'S only Jewish MP strongly denied reports in a Canadian newspaper overnight that Iran may force non-Muslims to wear coloured badges in public so they can be identified.

salam
Wow and i thought Canadians were more intelligent than to swallow propaganda right away.national post printed that article as soon as they got it from their friends ex Iranian expatriates, Sounds familiar anyone? coughchalabicough ;D

[MRR]

It is good if it's not true. Good to hear.

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[shahidiceprince]

Good to see the truth is exposed in this forum.
Waiting in the world.