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Iran: Dog Ownership to Be Outlawed Under Lawmakers' Plan
TIME ^ | 04-19-11 | AZADEH MOAVENI

Posted on 04/19/2011 7:15:26 AM PDT by Realman30

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To: Ditter

Why didn’t you fire her and demand an American nurse?

I sure wouldn’t trust one of ‘em to care for a loved one of mine.

BTW, there’s no such thing as a moderate MuSLIME


61 posted on 04/19/2011 10:08:41 AM PDT by Emperor Palpatine (Tosca, mi fai dimenticare Iddio!!!)
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To: Emperor Palpatine
She was as nice and competent as any nurse I have ever seen. She was here so much that we actually became friends. If it wasn't for her head scarf and fear of dogs I would never have thought she was a muslim. She was about 30 and single and had grown up in Houston.
62 posted on 04/19/2011 10:16:41 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Realman30

Flippin idiot retards


63 posted on 04/19/2011 10:18:21 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Ditter

Oh. The Malcolm X kind.


64 posted on 04/19/2011 10:21:31 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Realman30

I can see that. Dogs are all about unconditional love. You can’t have that kinda stuff messin with our message of hate and violence now can ya?


65 posted on 04/19/2011 10:58:28 AM PDT by PLOM...NOT! (Checking in from Wisconsin)
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To: PapaBear3625
Whether or not Mohammed actually said this, I had learned some time ago that Islam considers dogs unclean because Zoroastrians considered them holy. Zoroastrianism being the religion of the Persians (Iran) at the time that Islam made its conquests of Persia just after Mohammed's death.

Hadith 3813 seems to back this up somewhat in that Mohammed, after relenting on his initial dog-killing opinion, kept it in place specifically for the jet-black (dog) having two spots (on the eyes), for it is a devil.

Dogs with those particular markings are considered by Zoroastrians to be the dogs that guide human spirits to the afterlife/heaven.

66 posted on 04/19/2011 11:48:05 AM PDT by PENANCE
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To: Emperor Palpatine

I love the way you put that, I couldn’t agree more.


67 posted on 04/19/2011 2:40:11 PM PDT by bergmeid
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To: Realman30

They are evil and sick.


68 posted on 04/19/2011 5:44:07 PM PDT by austingirl
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To: PENANCE; PapaBear3625; Realman30
As a rule & to date, Dogs are venerated (i.e. respected & honored) in the Zoroastrian faith . "Dogs with special markings" you mention, is a belief & practice that were propagated in Venidad, much of which was written centuries after original teachings by Zoroaster in the Gathas. In fact, the Gathas - hymns/songs by Zoroaster himself do not mention 'dogs' - they say that one must respect God's [Ahura Mazda's creations]).

Here is an article about dogs & their historical treatment by Moslems in Iran, excerpts of which are below:

Mary Boyce, Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies and a pre-eminent scholar of Zoroastrianism, spent a 12-month sabbatical in 1963-64 living in the Zoroastrian community of Iran (mostly in Sharifabad, on the northern Yazdi plain). During a lecture series given at Oxford in 1975, she noted how the Iranian ancestors of the Zoroastrians had a devoted working relationship (i.e., herding livestock) with dogs when they lived a nomadic existence on the Asian steppes. This sustained contact evolved over generations such that dogs became a part in (Zoroastrian) religious beliefs and practices which in due course became a part of the heritage of Zoroastrianism.

Boyce then provided an historical overview of the deliberate, wanton cruelty of Muslims and their children towards dogs in Iran, including a personal eyewitness account:

In Sharifabad the dogs distinguished clearly between Moslem and Zoroastrian, and were prepared to go, full of hope, into a crowded Zoroastrian assembly, or to fall asleep trustfully in a Zoroastrian lane, but would flee as before Satan from a group of Moslem boys. The evidence points to Moslem hostility to these animals having been deliberately fostered in the first place in Iran, as a point of opposition to the old (pre-Islamic jihad conquest) faith (i.e., Zoroastrianism) there. Certainly in the Yazdi area. Moslems found a double satisfaction in tormenting dogs, since they were thereby both afflicting an unclean creature and causing distress to the infidel who cherished him.

There are grim stories from the time (i.e., into the latter half of the 19th century) when the annual poll-tax (jizya) was exacted, of the tax gatherer tying a Zoroastrian and a dog together, and flogging both alternately until the money was somehow forthcoming, or death released them.

I myself was spared any worse sight than that of a young Moslem girl standing over a litter of two-week old puppies, and suddenly kicking one as hard as she could with her shod foot. The puppy screamed with pain, but at my angry intervention she merely said blankly But it’s unclean. In Sharifabad I was told by distressed Zoroastrian children of worse things: a litter of puppies cut to pieces with a spade-edge, and a dog’s head laid open with the same implement; and occasionally the air was made hideous with the cries of some tormented animal.

Must mention that the above treatment by Iranian-Moslems is Not the norm. It usually only applies to either uneducated & very religious Iranian-Moslems, who, w/out questioning it, follow every word that the moslem clergy in Iran tell/have told them, and/or those who've mental problems w/ sadistic tendencies.

69 posted on 04/20/2011 1:23:32 AM PDT by odds
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

This way, during the next crackdown, when the regime cuts off the movement of normal food shipments, its victims won’t be able to eat the dog food (or the dog). Thanks Realman30.

Additional:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2707719/posts


70 posted on 04/22/2011 3:23:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: Realman30

Better plan: outlaw the Muslims, and keep the dogs.


71 posted on 04/22/2011 3:37:24 PM PDT by MizSterious (Apparently, there's no honor when it comes to someone else's retirement funds.)
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To: Realman30
Dogs hate Terminators, in the sci-fi franchise.

It appears dogs also hate Muslims.

Anything evil is usually detected by, and hated by, dogs.

72 posted on 04/22/2011 3:40:33 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

No more proof this is a evil bunch needed for me. ANYONE who hates dogs is pure evil!!!!!


73 posted on 04/22/2011 3:52:22 PM PDT by ColdOne (I miss my poochie... Tasha 2000~3/14/11)
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To: ColdOne; All; Spunky; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1035rep; 2ndDivisionVet; 4woodenboats; 5Madman2; ...

have a smile

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2011/04/dog-ownership-forbidden-in-iran.html


74 posted on 04/22/2011 11:51:29 PM PDT by FARS (Be healthy, happy and thrive,)
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To: nuconvert
Who do you think owns the thousands of dogs they’re talking about?

Methodists.

75 posted on 04/23/2011 12:23:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Your comment at best is crass.
Have a terrific Easter.


76 posted on 04/23/2011 3:06:40 AM PDT by odds
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To: Realman30

“railing against “short-legged” and “holdable” dogs. “

The type of dogs that women would be more likely to own?


77 posted on 04/23/2011 6:23:25 AM PDT by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: FARS
May it rain 'pigs' on these people and their land. . .

If only. . .

78 posted on 04/23/2011 8:49:34 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: Emperor Palpatine

Bump. . .just call the MO, the ‘tough love’ of Moral Reason.


79 posted on 04/23/2011 8:53:39 AM PDT by cricket (Osama - NOT made in the USA. . . .and Obama, not made in the USA either.. .)
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To: Realman30

Get this Mommand was cat owner I don’t get it LOL!


80 posted on 04/23/2011 9:08:38 AM PDT by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us ,resistance is futile")
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