Iran to issue badges to Jews and Christians

[The Last Conformist]

Not that I'm in favour of Iranian nukes, but assuming this story to be true, what relevance does it have to the nuclear question?

 

[PrinceOfLeigh]

I hope this will change some anti-American sentiment that has made you support Iran.

Why would something that Iran does change the way someone feels about America? Why do you think that if someone disagrees with American policy their attitude will change because there is someone equally bad or worse?

I'm not condoning this particular Iranian policy, nor am I using this thread to disagree with US Policy, but to say that Iran is doing wrong doesn't make what the US is doing right.

 

[garric]

Some people selectively believe in what they want to.

Not that I'm in favour of Iranian nukes, but assuming this story to be true, what relevance does it have to the nuclear question?

Would you give such a nation such powerful weapons? That's how it is relevant.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm glad this thread was reopened. It's front page news on canada.com

Reading the article, we have yet to get a definitive source for the law being passed. But DAMN, that's scary as hell.

Rik: why did you think it was fake news?

 

[Erik Mesoy]

First, I want to go on record as saying this Godwin's law stuff is just plain dumb (sorry Erik, but that's how I feel). There are many times that references to Nazism and their practices are legitimate. To declare Godwin's Law at the first hint of Nazi references just makes no sense.

Since nobody in the thread had mentioned nazis yet, I was being funny. I agree that this sounds dangerously like Nazi Germany.

 

[skadistic]

It has also popped up on FOX NEWS. But of course thats just a mouth piece for Bush and is in no way credible.

I hope the young people will take this as a sign to do something about the radical fanatics that are quickly sending thier nation to hell in a hand basket.

 

[Goonie]

Yes, but where's the hand basket?

 

[cgannon64]

Not that I'm in favour of Iranian nukes, but assuming this story to be true, what relevance does it have to the nuclear question?

Consider it testimony to the nation's character. Is Iran hiding its program cuz it's angry, or cuz it's hiding something? Well, let's keep in mind that they just badged Jews...

But, still, this article sounds like total bullfeathers. They passed this law two years ago, and we're just hearing about it now?

 

[CrazyScientist]

Would you give such a nation such powerful weapons? That's how it is relevant.

Just because a nation does evil things to its people does not necessarily mean they would let fly with nukes at the first opportunity.
Stalin was just as nutty and did far worse things to his people than this, yet he managed to keep his finger off the button.
I'm not saying I want Iran to have nukes. I most emphatically do not. I just question whether its worth the cost to stop them (presumably thousands of our soldiers lives, and hundreds of thousands of Iranian lives if Iraq is any indication) considering that the threat of retaliation has proven to be an effective deterrent against the use of nukes in the past, even for the worst kinds of nutjobs.

 

[warpus]

Second, this is just more and more proof that we cannot let this whackjob have nuclear weaponry. I cannot believe there is anyone out there who thinks he won't use them against Israel the first chance he gets.

He won't.

Iran views that Israel is the legitimate home of the Palestinians - and that they will someday return as legitimate rulers of the land. Nuking Israel would render Palestine inhabitable.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Would you give such a nation such powerful weapons? That's how it is relevant.

Nuclear weapons are not mine to give.

Now, if repression of religious minorities were the only complaint about Iran, and they did not have freely signed treaties obliging them to forsake nuclear arms, I'd not much care if they acquired nukes.

 

[cgannon64]

The possibility of Iran using nuclear weapons is not what's important.

The prospect of a nuclear Middle Eastern arms race, or of an Israeli pre-emptive strike, or the general problem of having a hard-line Islamist government with supreme bullying power in the Middle East: those are what really concern governments.

 

[The Last Conformist]

Consider it testimony to the nation's character. Is Iran hiding its program cuz it's angry, or cuz it's hiding something? Well, let's keep in mind that they just badged Jews...

Let me put it this way - if them being nasty to the Jews is the best reason against Iranian nukes you can think of, you're deaf, blind, and stupid.

 

[El_Machinae]

I'm starting to think that Ms. America should be fired. She's not doing her job of bringing world peace.

 

[nonconformist]

I can't find this on either BBC or CNN.

 

[sysyphus]

The National Post is a bona fide newspaper, but I wouldn't call it the most credible. Its agenda is very blatant and they have been cuaght in many a lie. Consider it Canada's equivalent of the Daily Mail.

But what does one expect from the annals of good old Lord Black (who must decline comment in order not to compromise his current fraud trial).

 

[cgannon64]

Let me put it this way - if them being nasty to the Jews is the best reason against Iranian nukes you can think of, you're deaf, blind, and stupid.

Or, alternatively, this way: If Iran being nasty to Jews isn't interesting to you, you're deaf, blind, and stupid.

 

[Yuri2356]

What colour badge do I get?
I wonder how wide their range is for different beliefs.
non-denominational christian - theist - polytheist - animist - Agnostic - weak atheist - strong atheist----

1) Salmon Pink
2) White
3) Rainbow
4) Brown
5) Holographic (Now you see god, now you don't!)
6) Semitransparent
7) Gap in the fabric


I'll tag along in saying that, if true, this is one of those things that the rest of the world needs to act on before it goes anywhere.

 

[Yeeek]

Do they give badge to gay people, deaf people, blind people, mute people and what about people who are atheist, or is it allowed though?

 

[amadeus]

Iran's consulate in Canada didn't deny that there was such a law. If it was made up, wouldn't they immediately spring to condemn the paper and dismiss such reports as being "Zionist propaganda?" (as they do with everything else)