[Dean's World] Dave Price: Taheri Vindicated?

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Posted by Dave Price:
Taheri Vindicated?
http://www.deanesmay.com/posts/1148355833.shtml


   Powerline [1]seems to think so.

     Regarding the dress code story it seems that my column was used as
     the basis for a number of reports that somehow jumped the gun.
     As far as my article is concerned I stand by it. The law has been
     passed by the Islamic Majlis and will now be submitted to the
     Council of Guardians. A committee has been appointed to work out
     the modalities of implementation.
     Many ideas are being discussed with regard to implementation,
     including special markers, known as zonnars, for followers of
     Judaism, Christianity and Zoroastrianism, the only faiths other
     than Islam that are recognized as such. The zonnar was in use
     throughout the Muslim world until the early 20th century and marked
     out the dhimmis, or protected religious minorities. (In Iran it was
     formally abolished in 1908). I have been informed of the ideas
     under discussion thanks to my sources in Tehran, including three
     members of the Majlis who had tried to block the bill since it was
     first drafted in 2004.
     I do not know which of these ideas or any will be eventually
     adopted. We will know once the committee appointed to discuss them
     presents its report, perhaps in September.
     Interestingly, the Islamic Republic authorities refuse to issue an
     official statement categorically rejecting the concept of
     dhimmitude and the need for marking out religious minorities.
     I raised the issue not as a news story, because news of the new law
     was already several days old, but as an opinion column to alert the
     outside world to this most disturbing development.

   I suppose one could argue he asserted his opinion as though it were
   fact, but that's what op-eds do. Certainly some of the criticisms of
   him seem unwarranted now that we have a fuller understanding.

References

   1. http://powerlineblog.com/archives/014158.php