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May

19

It’s Happening Again — Can We Afford To Be Distracted?

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:25 am — 5/19/2006 | Comments Off See comments below:

[h/t: Drudge]

From Canada.com network:

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.

“This is reminiscent of the Holocaust,” said Rabbi Marvin Hier, the dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. “Iran is moving closer and closer to the ideology of the Nazis.”

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.”

IranBernie 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.”

Ali Behroozian, an Iranian exile living in Toronto, said the law could come into force as early as next year.

With the bold emergence of evil this incarnate, this flagrant, this absolute — can we really consider not voting in the ’06 elections for whichever candidates would best support the GWOT, regardless of their spending habits? This chart explains all!

Which brings up something that has ricocheted around the center-right Blogosphere all week — a debate between Mark Tapscott and Jim Geraghty over the mid-terms this fall. Actually, the way that I read it, Geraghty is facing off against Bainbridge more than against Tapscott, here’s why.

I read my buddy Mark not as promoting a conservative sitting-out of the ’06 voting, but as tearing apart that dark-cloud scenario to see if there is any kind of a silver lining to be found. He does seem to believe that disaster can be avoided and that the conservatives would come back into power quickly, with an even stronger majority and a sense-of-mission, which is clearly lacking today. Geraghty doesn’t see any upside to a GOP loss of House and Senate, instead only deadlock and constant inquiries into the previous 6 years of the Bush administration and two upcoming years of Bush vetos. That certainly might curtail pork-spending, maybe even a lot, but my question goes back to what opened this post –

What effect would the GOP losing either or both houses of Congress this fall have on the president’s ability to effectively fight the Global War on Islamic Terror?

For me, this trumps all — Pork, SCOTUS, Immigration, Gay-this, gay-that, even abortion – this country cannot afford two or more years of deadlock, roll-backs of intelligence initiatives, hamstringing of the NSA, flooding of the courts by Guantanamo detainees, Impeachment threats! Sit out the vote this fall and this list is only the tip of the iceberg of crap that the spiteful Democrats will bring center stage.

And then you have to ask yourself – with national security in the hands of the likes of Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, and Chucky Schumer — which American city are you willing to give up to the terrorists?

I want to hear the I-ain’t-votin’ crowd’s answer to that . . . (db)

[Update]

Hugh Hewitt is reacting and asking:

Many fine commentators are publishing thoughtful essays on how to engage Iran, and Greg Djerejian has a long list of experienced and serious people urging engagement.

But what if the regime doesn’t want any part of engagement? What if the regime wants a war?

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