political : IRANIAN GOVERNMENT TO DECIDE ON PROPOSAL TO MAKE 'ISLAMIC DRESS' MANDATORY, AND REQUIRE NON-MUSLIMS TO WEAR SPECIAL INSIGNIA [+] serious ballot by herzog created Sun May 21, 06 "The law mandates the government to make sure that all Iranians wear “standard Islamic garments” designed to remove ethnic and class distinctions reflected in clothing, and to eliminate “the influence of the infidel” on the way Iranians, especially, the young dress. It also envisages separate dress codes for religious minorities, Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who will have to adopt distinct colour schemes to make them identifiable in public. The new codes would enable Muslims to easily recognize non-Muslims so that they can avoid shaking hands with them by mistake, and thus becoming najis (unclean). .... Islamic legislators are unanimous that Islam is incompatible with “gay, wild, provocative colours” such as red, yellow, and light blue, which are supposed to be favoured by Satan. The colours to be imposed by law are expected to be black, brown, dark blue and dark grey. Some Majlis members have been trying to lift the ban on green, which is, after all, the colour of the Bani Hashem, the family of the Prophet Muhammad, and thus regarded as the colour of Islam. The majority view, however, is that green is not “serious enough” to underline the gravity of a Muslim man’s position. Religious minorities would have their own colour schemes. They will also have to wear special insignia, known as zonnar, to indicate their non-Islamic faiths. Jews would be marked out with a yellow strip of cloth sewn in front of their clothes while Christians will be assigned the colour red. Zoroastrians end up with Persian blue as the colour of their zonnar. It is not clear what will happen to followers of other religions, including Hindus, Bahais and Buddhists, not to mention plain agnostics and atheists, whose very existence is denied by the Islamic Republic." -Amir Tehari Do these acts seem eerily reminiscent of the laws passed in Nazi germany requiring a variety of groups to wear insignia to differentiate them from the 'normal' population? Yes No, but it's concerning nonetheless No, this is a good thing, people should be required to wear uniforms to identify their religion Ballot #94573 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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