Posted on 06/26/2016 12:44:43 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
DOG LOVERS IN central Iran are in uproar after authorities began confiscating their pets in an apparent crackdown on the “vulgar Western culture” of canine ownership, Iranian media reported today.
One unnamed dog owner in Shahin Shahr in Isfahan province told Iran’s Shahrvand newspaper that officials had shown up suddenly at his house last week.
“We were shown a piece of paper indicating they were from the municipal veterinary office. They came in and took away our dogs under the pretext of vaccination,” he said.
The owner was told he could recover the dog after its vaccination, but when he went to the vet’s office they had no record of his case.
Instead, the newspaper said the confiscations were the result of a crackdown launched by local prosecutor Mohsen Boosaidi.
“Keeping and caring for dogs is haram (forbidden) according to religious leaders,” Boosaidi told the Fars news agency on 19 June.
“If we find out that anyone is keeping and caring for dogs and so is promoting vulgar Western culture, we will deal with them firmly.”
Dog confiscations in the town began three days later, Shahrvand reported. It did not give precise numbers, but said a number of families had lost their pets. “Ever since our dog was taken away, you only hear the sound of crying and sobbing in our house,” the Shahin Shahr owner said.
Javid Al-e Davood, the head of Iran’s Society For Protection of Animals, said such confiscations were illegal and that the prosecutor was “absolutely wrong” about the Islamic attitude to dogs.
“Keeping dogs has not been regarded as haram in any religious book. Associating keeping dogs with Western culture is distorting the history of Islamic and Iranian civilisation,” he said.
Dogs are considered najes (unclean) in Islam and police often stop and fine dog walkers. However, Iran’s authorities have stated that dogs with a clear role – such as guarding property or guiding the blind – are permitted.
In a wry letter to the prosecutor published on his organisation’s website, Al-e Davood said confiscating people’s pets was a strange priority for the authorities.
“We are very happy that all the problems of the country have been resolved and that the presence of a few guard dogs in people’s homes is the last remaining problem for the people of Shahin Shahr, which you have set out to resolve,” he wrote.
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Islam is unhealthy to children, dogs, and other living things.
Mako finds Islam to be dirty and should be taken away.
I named my dog Bacon.
Barter payments for North Korean rockets?
Owning a dog is haram, but sodomizing young boys is A-OK!
“Mohammed say, Mohammed say!”
Mad mo hated dogs. Most likely because the dogs would warn thier masters to take up defense when mo was on a slave raiding run...
I’m sure the “vaccination” was a bullet. Poor doggies. The people in charge of this should get it instead.
Islam is not compatible with life.
Now they’ve done it. Muslims can behead Christians, cruelly kill their own children for family “honor,” put helpless prisoners in locked cages and set them on fire, but now they’ve really done it. They are killing dogs. We will not let that happen on our watch!
Aren’t Muslims always bragging that they will triumph because “we love death more than you infidels love life!”?
The savages are becoming more islamic.
øbama too.
Is there anyone clever here who could make a graphic. There was a FATWA put out in ISIS magazine in Dec. 2014 specifically calling for killing of AMERICAN DOGS & PUPPIES. At the time James Woods tweeted this taken from the EU Times.
Vulgar western culture?
Islam is a Satanic culture that applauds corn holers.
Obama has had more butter used on him than most cows can produce in their life times.
Besides the crucifixion of Christians(mothers and children together) and others...
they also crucify dogs.
Sick perverted people. If you have to look...google it.
There was a reason Sarah had Abraham send Hagar and Ishmael away.
He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward[a] all his brothers.
Merchants relied on camels. Camels don't like dogs.
Ignorant Iranians don’t know that humanity domesticated dogs 38000 years ago, long before there was a “West”.
Dogs are far more valuable than Iranians.
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