Before Donald Trump and Bibi Netanyahu began bombing the absolute Shi’ite out of them, the hardline mullahs of Iran had other matters on their minds, such as whether or not to ban dogs from the Islamic Republic. In early June, it was reported the nation’s governing clerics had expanded an embargo on pet-owners walking their canines in several Iranian cities, the animals being deemed ‘un-Islamic’, a living, four-legged symbol of Western cultural imperialism.
Just like with those other scripturally inferior creatures known as women, the precise status of dogs in Islam is highly contentious: harmless loyal companions for a man throughout life, or diseased, flea-ridden vectors of corruption on Earth? Although there has never been an outright blanket ban on dogs in Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, citizens are only really supposed to own them for limited, practical reasons: as guard-animals, sheep-herders, hunting-companions, guide-dogs or meals-of-last-resort. Copying infidel kuffar by keeping them purely as pets for family entertainment is frowned upon by officials as a sign you are a bad Muslim.
A Dog Is the Very Reverse of God
Periodically, Iranian Islamists try to demonstrate how ultra-orthodox they are by proposing a formal nationwide ban upon the beasts. In 2014, a group of 32 MPs tabled a bill calling dogs a form of Western-backed “cultural invasion”, a Trojan Horse in the shape of a different animal. Keeping one as a pet, the bill suggested, should earn
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There’s a Hadith that tells the story of a woman of ill-repute finding a sick dog. In compassion for the dying animal, she filled her shoe with water to give it a drink. The Prophet pbuh declared that she would automatically enter paradise for her kindness. Go figure!
1) All dogs should be muzzled in public, especially on public transport, as in some European countries, and all dog owners whose dogs attack people or livestock should be fined and thrown into jail, and the dog put down.
2) If only pet owners realized the array of diseases like scleroderma and toxoplasmosis their pets are transmitting to them, they would just stop being so foolish.
3) If only pet owners who “love” their pets would try to see the pet’s life from the pet’s point of view, they would see their own unconscious, well-intentioned, appalling cruelty.
4) I detest dogs, attacking and killing people and livestock. And cats killing billions of wild creatures for fun every year. What is the point of keeping an animal in your house?
Good grief!
A friend of mine lives in the rapidly being overrun Morden in S London and has a dog. When she walks it in her nearby park as she has done for decades – well, not always the same dog – she now gets the letterbox crowd tut tutting so I suspect that there is truth in this. I would see it in the same vein as the mass adoption of religious dress here that they would not wear back home as a means to rub our noses in it as their political religion infects our country further every day.
Years ago, there was an article by a woman who described visiting her loved ones’ graves in a cemetery, only to be harassed by Muslims who brought their dogs there to defecate on the Christian graves. When she gathered courage to remonstrate with them, they sneered that it didn’t matter because they were dead. They found it all amusing.
Imagine their reaction if she had done the same to a Muslim grave.
Tbf, they can whinge all they like, but this is a christian based country, wether church goer or not, it is also an animal loving country, including dogs, so if muslims do not like this tough, although I know muslims that do have dogs, but as with all things, some are devout, some are not.
In Gloucester, dog grooming vans are being spat at and their occupants harassed and abused by ‘local’ Muslims. That’s from a mobile dog groomer.
It would appear Gloucester has a different kind of grooming problem.😶
I recently stayed in a very nice small hotel which diplayed a notice saying that owing to the appalling behaviour of some guests they would only accept bookings from people whose dogs could vouch for them.
Don’t forget that there are some white people who are against the keeping of pets. A violation of their human rights or something.
True. I am “a white person who is against the keeping of pets”, and zoos.
It is one thing to raise livestock to eat, because we have to eat something, and our digestive systems were made for carnivorous and omnivorous diets.
But keeping an animal captive just for your own entertainment, as a pet or in a zoo, is unnatural, unnecessary, cruel to the animal, and often very harmful or even fatal to the human. It is also horrific depravity in millions of humans who practice bestiality, what they like to call “zoophilia”, like “paedophilia”, “love of animals” and “love of children”, but both should be renamed, because “love” has nothing to do with it.
Some years ago I read of dogs being poisoned in muslim areas.
I call BS. Islam seems to be chock-full of contradictions. A big example is why some Muslim women seem to be fully, partially or not covered at all, and dress just like Western women, albeit keeping their arms and legs covered. You can’t exactly reference the Koran when there’s this amount of inconsistencies. Another is that they need to pray multiple times per day. No they do not. I’ve worked with enough of them over the years, and some of them rarely even go inside a mosque.
Spend a few mins on the ‘net and you’ll see proof that Muslims keeping dogs as pets, not just as working animals, are actually a thing;
”Sheikh Hamdan is known as a kind leader, who is also compassionate to animals. He often shares photos with animals.
In 2022, Sheikh Hamdan had rescued a stray dog, which was brutally shot with air gun pellets. The Dubai Crown Prince adopted the Saluki-mix and named her Grace, and she recovered under his care.”
https://gulfnews.com/uae/sheikh-hamdan-picks-name-for-female-puppy-after-asking-residents-for-suggestion-1.1732007087730
The royals in the UAE seem to be big animal lovers and show compassion to dogs who have been mistreated;
”The owner was “heartbroken” to see his canines in such poor condition,… Read more »
We’ve had a couple of West African Muslims stay with us
They loved our dogs.
With a nice bottle of Chianti !!..
i saw an RSPCA advert saying “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas”. Underneath was written – “Last year we had a turkey, and it lasted until the New Year”!
The problem is that the modern world is so increasingly absurd and insane, something like a campaign to ban dogs does not even seem that extreme.
The history of the last century gives us so many examples of total absurdity, it’s not like something similarly crazy would be unprecedented.
Just looking back, within my lifetime (I’m 58), if someone had told me 40 years ago that one day two blokes would be able to get married legally, I would have thought it was some bizarre joke. (My opinion has not changed, by the way.)
If someone had told me that confused teenagers will be chemically and surgically castrated in government funded institutions, I would have thought it was some dystopian nightmare.
If someone had told me that in Britain a large number of girls will be mass raped by Muslims and the authorities will cover up for them, I would have thought you were insane.
Shall I continue?
So a call for a total ban on dogs…? Not even that extreme.
Exactly – you just can’t tell what’s real and what isn’t any more. No wonder people get caught up in “conspiracy theories”. After all, people being confined to their houses and fined 10k for meeting a friend in the park while a nasty flu virus was going round would certainly have seemed like madness if someone had suggested it 10 years ago…
Another example – Putin is going to block out the sun and starve us all, scientists are going to block out the sun and save us all, but only crazy far right thugs believe in chemtrails and weather manipulation.
The British may be upset about the rape and torture of little white girls, but try and take their dogs away and there will be literally rioting in every town.
To be honest with you, I’m not even sure about that any more. There seems to be very little resistance in the British public to anything these days, as it was evident during the Covid crisis. Just some quiet grumbling and resignation from a small section of society, enthusiastic compliance from the majority.
i think that dogs will be the line.