Honestly, can any country be so stupid....

[Mythryn]

Iran to enforce Jews and Christians to wear colored badges

Pretty fucked up.

 

[Thinkmeats]

oh hey iranian expatriates confirmed it i guess it must be true

Not to rain on your parade, but dudes who moved out of Iran a couple years back are not exactly primo source #1 about what's going on inside Iran, and moreover this isn't law yet. Save the tears for when/if this is confirmed. You know how nobody cares when "someone close to the white house" says that it's considering legislation to do blablabla? This is the same thing. Wait till it's law / it's been confirmed by sources that matter, then break out the sirens.

 

[Birlic]

This reminds me of one of the first laws dictated by the Nazi government of Germany: Jews had to wear armbands.

 

[Zaphlin]

It's already been cleared up that this was all rumor and no truth.

 

[DarkUnknownOne]

I think having people of various religions waring badges that identify them as such is a good thing.

 

[Allielyn]

Do you mind if I ask . . . . .

Why?

 

[DarkUnknownOne]

It would make it much easier for people to find like-minded fellow religious people.

Also, because the Pastafarian badge would obviously kick the most ass of any religions badge.

 

[Allielyn]

It would make it much easier for people to find like-minded fellow religious people.

Well, I have to admit I disagree with you there. I find it much easier to find like-minded religious people by actually attending some sort of church, rather than looking for signs of it in the random people I meet. Regardless of that, if people want to voluntarily wear signs of their religion, I don't see any problem with it.

I would assume the general opposition to any idea like this is that the only real result of such Forced Identification would be Convenient Discrimination.

 

[rab]

Sarcasm alert.

 

[Allielyn]

Sorry, my sarcasm meter is broken.

 

[Armando]

just want to reiterate how false this story is.

"We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story," Douglas Kelly, editor-in-chief of the National Post, wrote in a Page 2 column. Mr. Kelly said the story was based on a column by Amir Taheri, an Iranian author and journalist, and two expatriate Iranians living in Canada. "We should have pushed the sources we did have for more corroboration of the information they were giving us," Mr. Kelly said.

link

 

[vistachiri]

man...i just looked at the topic and though..yes...yes they can lol