Hitler and Nazi Resurgence

The Nazi Resurgence: So it seems Iran wants to recreate Hitler's Third Reich
Zero Point

Iranian expatriates living in Canada yesterday confirmed reports that the Iranian parliament, called the Islamic Majlis, passed a law this week setting a dress code for all Iranians, requiring them to wear almost identical "standard Islamic garments."

The law, which must still be approved by Iran's "Supreme Guide" Ali Khamenehi before being put into effect, also establishes special insignia to be worn by non-Muslims.

Iran's roughly 25,000 Jews would have to sew a yellow strip of cloth on the front of their clothes, while Christians would wear red badges and Zoroastrians would be forced to wear blue cloth.

"There's no reason to believe they won't pass this," said Rabbi Hier. "It will certainly pass unless there's some sort of international outcry over this."

Bernie Farber, the chief executive of the Canadian Jewish Congress, said he was "stunned" by the measure. "We thought this had gone the way of the dodo bird, but clearly in Iran everything old and bad is new again," he said. "It's state-sponsored religious discrimination."

It's religious slavery actually. All non-Muslims will either be forced out of the country, or bullied into subservience.

As we wrote months ago, the goal of Iran is to develop it's nuclear arsenal, use the deterrent to hold the world at bay, eradicate it's dissidents, force it's policies upon it's smaller neighbors, and push towards it's goal of removing Israel. And how did we arrive at this conclusion?

By listening to what Ahmadinejad was saying. If only the world would do the same.

So many commentators and hand-wringers have fretted over the Iranian quest for nukes, asking themselves why Iran would be so blatant, so obvious, so belligerent, so politically helpful to President Bush (yes, they are saying it), and yet for lack of understanding they tepidly conclude that it must really be some big mistake, that President Ahmadinejad is a harmless nut, and that Iran - while certainly crafty and probably supporting extremists - really does need electricity for it's population. Why risk sanctions? Why would they want to provoke international rebuke? Why would they invite a military strike? Why would they ever wish for a nuclear standoff? MAD worked against the Soviets, didn't it?

It did, but only against the Soviets.

MAD was a system designed to play off fear, or to tempt the other side into a desire to want to live. And then we waited each other out - though Reagan decided to end it and just spent them into bankruptcy. Yet therein lies the fallacy when applying the nuclear standoff scenario to Iran. Iran is in this for the endgame, for a religious goal, not a standoff, and as such they will use the standoff only as a means of lulling us into complacency (and into using the standoff playbook). They are going to cut off the world, destroy their internal opposition, and enshrine their vision of religious fulfillment as a cultural paradise. And death plays a large role in this vision.

All these atrocious policies and statements coming out of Iran are merely a taste of things to come. They are not bluffing, and they are not harmless.

The delicate flowers at the U.N. would rather spend their time wagging their finger at the U.S. for having a prison for terrorists. Yet here is blatant talk, about to be put into law, of religious oppression not seen since the Nazis, and the silence is deafening.