National Post removes story about Iran making JEWS WEAR YELLOW ARM BAND!!

[Harper_is_Bush]

Has it gone down the memory hole? After all the damage they caused, can they just pretend it never happened?

Go here: http://www.judeoscope.ca/article.php3?id_article=0375

and scroll down to the "See online: Full Story." link. If you click it, you get a blank page.

The disturbing thing is there was a front page story (see below) about this AND a second column inside. The column can still be found, but this front page story which made the most damning claims has been removed by the newspaper.

Are these the actions of responsible media outlet that acknowledges a mistake?
No, and this mistake has not been acknowledged. There has been no real retraction and no apology.
Demand one.


What it says on the left side:

Law would require non-Muslim insignia

Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them and other religious minorities as non-Muslims.

If you don't understand the significance of all this, you can check out this topic where it's explained:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1250043

[northzax]

1. the funny thing is

I remember this story about the Taliban, right before we attacked them...

[11cents]

8. That story was true.

In the case of Afghanistan, the law would have applied to the very small Hindu community that comprised the only significant non-Muslim population. The law was real, though I don't think it was actually applied.

[RobertSeattle]

2. Classic - show the big lie, whisper the retraction

The meme survives.

[Burma Jones]

3. Hey, the story had Truthiness

and that's more important than the truth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truthiness

[Harper_is_Bush]

4. Regarding Wikipedia:

They have an entry on this sordid affair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Iranian_sumptuary_law

From there you can link to an entry on the National Post, and begin to see the neo-con connection to this picture.

[Harper_is_Bush]

5. Connection to the USA and neo-conservatives:

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Iranian_sumptuary_law#Weblogs:
"Amir Taheri, author of one of the two original National Post articles, is a speaker for Benador Associates, which is a public relations firm and speakers bureau that promotes expert writers and speakers focusing primarily on United States foreign policy in the Middle East, particularly those from a neoconservative point of view."

Disturbing, no?

[Harper_is_Bush]

6. Maybe this is why the rightwing keeps plowing over the left in the USA

they're allowed to get away with anything.

[in_cog_ni_to]

7. OMG..."Never Forget" I cannot believe this. At least the Jews now have a

country to escape to and the Christians can go anywhere, if they can afford to.:( This should be all over the media! I wonder if the Israeli papers are reporting this?

Jerusalem Post has this article. Iran denies the story.

May. 20, 2006 3:51 | Updated May. 20, 2006 19:43
Iran denies religious dress code law
By JPOST.COM STAFF

Iranian officials on Saturday denied a report published by the Canadian National Post on the previous day, claiming that a new dress-code law was passed in Iran this past week, which 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.

Legislator Emad Afroogh, who sponsored the bill and chairs the parliament's cultural committee, told The Associated Press on Friday there was no truth to the Canadian newspaper report.

"It's a sheer lie. The rumors about this are worthless," he said, explaining that the bill seeks only to make women dress more conservatively and avoid Western fashions. "The bill is not related to minorities. It is only about clothing," he said. "Please tell them (in the West) to check the details of the bill. There is no mention of religious minorities and their clothing in the bill," he said.

Iranian Jewish lawmaker Morris Motamed told the AP: "Such a plan has never been proposed or discussed in parliament. Such news, which appeared abroad, is an insult to religious minorities here."<snip>

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961378553&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[applegrove]

9. I don't care what y'all say about NP.. the momment they turn a profit..

for the first time.. I'm going to send them a card! :sarcasm: They've only been around for more than a decade afterall!!

Seems the market does not come into play with that newspaper.. as which so much to do with neocons!