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"Life for Iran's 25,000 has become even more precarious..." They already faced all manner of humiliations, discrimination, and harassment, in accord with traditional dhimmi laws. And now on top of it all they are being treated practically as enemy combatants.
From The Scotsman, with thanks to Sr. Soph:
FOR the dwindling Jewish community in Iran, a sacred ritual is observed at 6.30 every evening as shortwave radios are switched on to listen to the daily Farsi broadcast from Israel.Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power last June, life for Iran's 25,000 Jews has become even more precarious as the president defiantly pursues a nuclear policy while declaring Israel should be "wiped off the world map"....
"It is becoming a serious matter of concern for Iranian Jews should there be any military action between Iran and Israel," said Israeli broadcaster Menashe Amir.
"The Iranian regime says it does distinguish between Judaism and Zionism, but the local Jewish community knows that is a lie since it has been frequently written by extremists in religious circles that 'every Jew is a Zionist'."
While it is still the largest Jewish community in the Middle East outside Israel, a vast number of the population have fled Iran.
Similar scenarios, played out in a thousand different circumstances, along with conversions induced by the harsh deprivations of the dhimma, account for the present tiny populations of Christians and Jews in the countries known as "the Islamic world."
Posted by Robert at May 7, 2006 6:46 AM
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The Myth of Islamic "tolerance".
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at May 7, 2006 7:10 AM
Pierre Rehov, a movie producer, novelist, journalist and lawyer has gone undercover to create documentaries about this subject including "Silent Exodus".
In 1948 nearly one million Jews lived in Arab lands. But In barely twenty years, they have become forgotten fugitives, expelled from their native lands, forgotten by history and where the victims themselves have hidden their fate under a cloak of silence.Posted by: justamomof4
at May 7, 2006 8:05 AM
Similar stories are coming out of Iran by Mandaeans, followers of John the Baptist. In addition to increased harrassment, religious leaders are forced to issue statements that support Ahmadinejad and Company.
Posted by: maryrose at May 7, 2006 10:13 AM
"stories are coming out of Iran by Mandaeans"
-- from a posting above
And Iraq, where libraries of ancient Mandaean manuscripts have been destroyed by Muslim marauders, intent on erasing any hint, in the Land of the Two Rivers, of any of its original pre-Islamic inhabitants or their artifacts.
Posted by: Hugh at May 7, 2006 10:21 AM
Isn't this the perfect animated film idea for Woody Allen and Stephen Spielberg to co-produce/direct/author/voice-star?
{Bonus: No actors for jihadists to threaten.)
A tragicomedy called "How to Tapdance In an Earthquake
-Iranian Style".
All told in animal metaphors, mingling Chagall and Kafka, Orwell and Escher.
Starring:
Mahmoud, the Heavy Waterbug.
The Ayatollah Anacondas.
And a plucky little kid (goat) named Izzy.
Aesop and Abraham meet Pixar.
European satirists have done the same, for decades, to fascism and capitalism and communism.
It's time for the 'responsible' voices in the Western creative classes to mock the most religiously intolerant and outspokenly violent gang. Clarified in critter masks.
With as much brilliant savagery as their European cousins handed to the Nazis, fascists, etc.
We need to work to conceptually cage this nest of the hissing mullahs while they are still in an infantile stage.
Their teeth, without venom, are impressive, but empty.
Expose their bluff.
And crush their b.s.
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 7, 2006 7:45 PM
I suggest that all Iranian Jews make aliyah to Israel. They can most likely get help in doing this. In fact, I appeal to my sisters and brothers of the Jewish faith in Iran, do not stay in a hostile country run by a madman when you have your own country to go to. Whatever pushed your ancestors into Iran hundreds or thousands of years ago, the reason no longer exists. Baruch Ata Adonai, mekabetz nidchei amo Yisrael.
Posted by: HaMalach at May 8, 2006 1:56 AM
It is nice to say that if the Jews don't like the country they live in, they can leave. In the case of at least Iran and Syria, it is forbidden for Jews to leave the country. They are being kept as bargaining chips when open hostilities start between Iran and Israel. There are no Jews left in many Arab countries including Yemen and Saudi Arabia. About the only country still permitting aliyah is Egypt where the Coptic Jews are leaving for Israel in droves.
Any country like Iran and Iraq that used children to clear minefields when they were a war won't hesitate to do the same sort of thing to the hated Jews.
The UN, the EU, and just about the entire world has abandoned them to their fate. What we can do is pray for them and support them thru support for the various organizations operating undercover in countries like this.
at May 8, 2006 10:58 PM
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