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Last week when handicapped women were used as suicide bombers in Baghdad to blow up a pet market, my wife was at a loss.
"Why would they want to blow up a pet market?" she asked.
Female bombers kill 72 at Baghdad pet markets
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKYAT16816720080201
Well, the website Ask The Imam has the answer!
The keeping of dogs as pets is a Western cultural idea which is not in keeping with Islamic law. The idea that "the dog is man's best friend" is an unnatural behavior which is part of Western culture.
Moreover, the imam says dogs kept for anything other than personal security or farming purposes are unclean. Dog saliva is especially unclean and there's a whole cleansing ritual involved before a devout Muslim can pray again, once he's been contaminated by dog spit.
In Islam, why dogs are considered impure animal?
http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=9803
Which brings us to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's four German guard dogs, purchased at a cost of over $161,000.
Ayatollas all over Iran are now taking up sides either for or against Ahmadinejad's dogs.
Iran's FARS News Agency has taken up the cause for the guard dogs, noting that they were given a special "fatwah" by several ayatollahs, because they were to be used strictly for presidential security, not as pets.
Report: Ahmadinejad's Dogs Upset Iranian Religious Leaders
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329006,00.html
I'm all for cultural and religious tolerance, but for the life of me, the more I learn about strict adherence to Islam, the less likely it seems to me that its followers could ever fit in here in America. You have to get a ruling from a group ayatollahs to even get a dog? I thought "special dispensation" went out with the Middle Ages.
"Why would they want to blow up a pet market?" she asked.
Female bombers kill 72 at Baghdad pet markets
http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKYAT16816720080201
Well, the website Ask The Imam has the answer!
The keeping of dogs as pets is a Western cultural idea which is not in keeping with Islamic law. The idea that "the dog is man's best friend" is an unnatural behavior which is part of Western culture.
Moreover, the imam says dogs kept for anything other than personal security or farming purposes are unclean. Dog saliva is especially unclean and there's a whole cleansing ritual involved before a devout Muslim can pray again, once he's been contaminated by dog spit.
In Islam, why dogs are considered impure animal?
http://www.islam.tc/ask-imam/view.php?q=9803
Which brings us to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's four German guard dogs, purchased at a cost of over $161,000.
Ayatollas all over Iran are now taking up sides either for or against Ahmadinejad's dogs.
Iran's FARS News Agency has taken up the cause for the guard dogs, noting that they were given a special "fatwah" by several ayatollahs, because they were to be used strictly for presidential security, not as pets.
Report: Ahmadinejad's Dogs Upset Iranian Religious Leaders
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,329006,00.html
I'm all for cultural and religious tolerance, but for the life of me, the more I learn about strict adherence to Islam, the less likely it seems to me that its followers could ever fit in here in America. You have to get a ruling from a group ayatollahs to even get a dog? I thought "special dispensation" went out with the Middle Ages.
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