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Stupidity Offends Me

Registered: May 2005
Location: New York, NY
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| quote: | Originally posted by Fir3start3r
This story is being questioned...
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The Canadian Paper has now apologized for the story - Source
| quote: | Newspaper apologizes for anti-Iran report
OTTAWA, Canada (Reuters) -- A Canadian newspaper apologized Wednesday for an article that said Iran planned to force Jews and other religious minorities to wear distinctive clothing to distinguish themselves from Muslims.
The National Post ran the piece on its front page Friday along with a large photo from 1944 that showed a Hungarian couple wearing the yellow stars that the Nazis forced Jews to sew to their clothing.
The story, which included tough anti-Iran comments, was picked up widely by Web sites and by other media.
"Is Iran turning into the new Nazi Germany? Share your opinion online," the paper asked readers Friday.
But the National Post, a longtime supporter of Israel and critic of Tehran, admitted Wednesday it had not checked the piece thoroughly enough before running it.
"It is now clear the story is not true," Douglas Kelly, the National Post's editor in chief, wrote in a long editorial on Page 2. "We apologize for the mistake and for the consternation it has caused not just National Post readers, but the broader public who read the story."
The article was based on a column by Iranian expatriate writer Amir Taheri, who said a law being debated by Iran's parliament would force Jews to sew a yellow strip of cloth to their clothes. Christians would wear a red strip while Zoroastrians would wear a blue one.
Iranian lawmakers, including the country's sole Jewish parliamentarian, have flatly denied the National Post story, saying there is no mention of discriminatory measures against religious minorities in a new dress code bill.
The article and column appeared at a time when the international community is pressuring Tehran over its nuclear program.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also has sparked fears in the international community by denying the Holocaust, in which the Nazis killed 6 million Jews, and by calling for Israel to be "wiped off the map."
Asked about the Post story last week, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Iran "is very capable of this kind of action." He added: "It boggles the mind that any regime on the face of the Earth would want to do anything that could remind people of Nazi Germany."
A spokesman for Harper said the prime minister had started off his comments with the words "if this is true."
But Iran summoned Canada's ambassador to Tehran to explain Harper's remarks, a diplomat said Wednesday.
"Ambassador Gordon Venner was summoned on Sunday afternoon, May 21," a Canadian diplomat said.
Diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Tehran have been icy since 2003 when Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi died in custody in Tehran. Ottawa also has consistently taken a robust line on Iran's disputed atomic program.
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"Go back to bed america your government is in control
Here's American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it,
Watch these picturary retards bang their fuckin' skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom,
Here you go America you are free to do as we tell you
We want your soul
Your cash, your house, your phone, your cash, your house, your life" -Adam Freeland - We Want Your Soul
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ogvh5150
Formula 1 Addict

Registered: Aug 2003
Location: F1 2008 Red Bull Racing/BMW Sauber
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| quote: | Originally posted by InterMilan31
no offense but why would any Jew really want to live in Iran....they are more insane than the president of Iran if so |
"We are Jews but not Zionists," said Rabbi Ahron Cohen, of Manchester, England, invoking the distinction between those who follow Judaism as a faith and religious Zionists who believe the Jews have a Biblical right to Israel as a homeland.
"The root cause of the problem in the Middle East is the Zionists," Cohen said. "But really, the whole concept is flawed, and that's what the people in this country believe, too, and we're with them."
In recent months, Iran has faced widespread accusations of anti-Semitism since Khatami's successor as president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called for Israel to be "wiped off the map" and dubbed the Holocaust a "myth."
Iran's Khatami Says Islam Is the Enemy West Needs
A group of five rabbis from Britain and the US is in town to publicize their anti-Zionism campaign, calling for a speedy and peaceful dismantlement of Israel.
In an exclusive interview with Iran Daily, Rabbi Ahron Cohen of the Jews United Against Zionism said the group has found the situation of Jews in Iran quite satisfactory despite the negative western propaganda.
“Iran is depicted as a repressive religious state where minorities are not allowed to express themselves freely. It is also depicted as an anti-Semitic state, but we found the reverse. The Jews have the opportunity to express themselves and have their own parliamentary representative,“ he said.
Rabbi Cohen added that the group visited the Jewish community in Iran and did not get the impression that there is any problem.
He said most of the Iranian Jews are opposed to Zionism.
Rabbis Call for Dismantlement of Israel
Jews Well in Iran
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