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Scoring points with fliers Air Canada opens up AIR A all of fits seats to C- RUE Acroplan members. FPI NATIONAL POST VOL.8 NO.175 FRIDAY, MAY 19, 2006 www.nationalpost.com EYES BADGES FOR a Te YEVGENY KHALDEI CORBIS A Jewish couple wear yellow stars in the Budapest ghetto in 1944. The Nazis required the stars be worn to distinguish Jews from Gentiles. Now the government of Iran is formulating a law to require non-Muslims to wear distinctive colours: yellow for Jews, red for Christians. Christian ad about Code gets pulled Cineplex drops spot that tells people to 'seek the truth' BY BRIAN HUTCHINSON VANCOUVER A movie house commercial that encourages churchgoers to see and discuss Hollywood thriller The Da Vinci Code has been dropped by Canada's largest cinema chain, which said the ad was part of a religious campaign to "stalk" unsuspecting film patrons.

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"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." 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." See INSIGNIA on Page A2 The 10-second spot was produced by evangelical Christians and was to be shown for the next month inside 65 Cineplex cinemas in Ontario and Western Canada. The ad directs people to a Christian Web site devoted to the controversial film, which opens across North America today. Cineplex Entertainment LP is promoting the movie heavily; however, on Wednesday, the company abruptly cancelled its $63,000 advertising deal with Campus Crusade for Christ Canada, a B.C.-based affiliate of the world's largest evangelical Christian organization, CCC International. The decision was announced after a story about the Campus Crusade ad appeared this week in the Toronto Star. In addition to producing the ad, the Star reported, Campus Crusade had "mobilized a small army of volunteers from Toronto to Vancouver willing to stalk moviegoers in the line outside cinemas" and to press upon them "biblical tracts," debunking contentious claims about Jesus Christ said to be in the movie treatment of The Da Vinci Code.

See CRUSADE on Page A2 A Da Vinci decoder, Page PM12 DRESS CODE IN COMMENT Amir Taheri looks at how law would make Muslims billboards for the regime's ideology. Page A19 Cartoon, Page A16.