Godwin strikes again!
May. 19th, 2006 06:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyThe front cover of the National Post today featured a headline blaring the news that Jews living in Iran were going to be forced to wear clothing identifying them as such. There weren't any Iranians on the cover—just pictures from the Holocaust of German Jews wearing the yellow star. Now, Ahamdinajad is such a nutbag that I wouldn't put this thing past him, but the fact that the National Post was covering this story and no one else was made me wonder. Since I won't pay a cent for that nasty little rag, I waited until I got home and then checked the website. There was a two-page article expanding on the headline—apparently all Iranians were getting some sort of standardized uniform—traditional Islamic garb for Muslims, yellow ribbons for Jews, red for Christians, and blue for Zoroastrians. Still an evil plan, but not quite as genocidal as the headline would have you believe.
Feministe posted about it, and one of the comments linked to this story, which has Israeli reporter Meir Javedanfar calling bullshit on the whole deal.
I re-checked the National Post site, and the story was down. About ten minutes later, this was up. (If the link goes dead, the new headline is "Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue" and quotes Javedanfar, among others. I believe the other story quoted Stephen Harper as denouncing the law (but I don't remember for sure); now he's saying that he thinks Iran is capable of it, anyway.
Okay, if they actually passed this law, it's utterly awful and ought to be condemned and all that. But I'm thinking that the Post jumped the gun in an effort to rouse Canadian sentiment against Iran. Thoughts?
It seems that this story, however, is true. Click this link to find out how you can help an 18-year-old Iranian woman who faces the death penalty for defending herself against a rapist.
Feministe posted about it, and one of the comments linked to this story, which has Israeli reporter Meir Javedanfar calling bullshit on the whole deal.
I re-checked the National Post site, and the story was down. About ten minutes later, this was up. (If the link goes dead, the new headline is "Experts say report of badges for Jews in Iran is untrue" and quotes Javedanfar, among others. I believe the other story quoted Stephen Harper as denouncing the law (but I don't remember for sure); now he's saying that he thinks Iran is capable of it, anyway.
Okay, if they actually passed this law, it's utterly awful and ought to be condemned and all that. But I'm thinking that the Post jumped the gun in an effort to rouse Canadian sentiment against Iran. Thoughts?
It seems that this story, however, is true. Click this link to find out how you can help an 18-year-old Iranian woman who faces the death penalty for defending herself against a rapist.
