In a move reminiscent of the Nazis forcing Jews to wear a Star of David insigne, Iran's parliament has reportedly passed a law requiring Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities to wear color-coded badges to identify them as non-Muslims.
Read carefully now to get your color right:
Jews will wear yellow badges
Christians will wear read badges
Pagans will wear blue badges
Iran's Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian populations have all been persecuted for a while, but the new law would make the situation much worse by making religious minorities immediately identifiable and allowing Muslims to avoid contact with non-Muslims. [National Post of Canada]
Now, you'd think that those Jews who decried for a year against Mel Gibson's biblical epic, The Passion of the Christ, would really scream their heads off about this one.
But strangely, no. The Simon Wiesenthal Center has simply written to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan to "bring pressure" on Iran to drop the law. The Pope, who apparently believes the Vatican dictum that "we all worship the same gods," hasn't said a word against the law.