We have previously discussed violence and legal measures targeting dogs by some Muslims who view canines as “unclean.” Even postcards with dogs and service dogs (and here) have raised the ire of some Muslim groups. Now this issue is getting some long-needed attention in Iran after a short film that showed stray dogs being tortured and killed by having acid injected into them.
The video was taken an industrial area of Shiraz, 900 kilometres south of Tehran. The animal activists claimed that those responsible paid $4 for each dog. As with environmentalists in China, I have always had overwhelming respect and admiration for secularists and animal (particularly dog) advocates in Muslim countries. This is more than an impressive commitment to principle but putting your actual life on the line for those principles.
The good news is that the Iranian government is acting on the video. While there was an effort to criminalize the ownership of dogs under Sharia law (and subject dog owners to up to 74 lashed last year), Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar has called for an investigation into the video. While she referred rather mildly to the practice as “an immediate end to unconventional population control method[] for stray dogs,” she did call upon the interior ministry to “deal with the criminals responsible”.
Some Iranian celebrities like Ali Karimi, once a star on Iran’s national football team, posted a picture with his two dogs on Instagram and the message “Dogs are the kindest domestic animals. I hope those who, under any excuse, did this to these animals get what they deserve.”
bam bam
The buybull has a lot of explaining to do. Lots of evil in there too…
http://www.evilbible.com/
now that was funny!
Shuler
Rubio’s New American Century… awfully like Cheney’s Project for a New American Century. Boy oh boy I bet Rubio didn’t even burn a brain cell on that on… because he needs that one brain cell he has left for his campaign…
Shuler
But, but, but it’s never when a US Service member does it to puppies.
Maybe if he had a Koran then some here might find cause to speak up.
However, it would be more about that Koran than what that person did to puppies. You see, priorities…
Seems more pertinent than ever these days:
https://consortiumnews.com/2015/03/27/neocons-the-echo-of-german-fascism/
Reblogged this on Political Newspaper.
Well, I think bam bam subscribes to a philosophy of “It’s clobberin’ time!” —so that when somebody says the Koran doesn’t say something, she proves that it does beyond all reasonable doubt. Which is a very American thing. . . 😉
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Squeeky Fromm
Girl Reporter
It is telling that an article about animal abuse in Iran becomes a diatribe by many against Islam altogether… Especially when I cited just two instances from America this last week alone. Funny how that isn’t about America OR religion. No? Anyone else see this, or am I just imagining things?
po,
thanks for being a darling. have a good night.
The moment one rejects the ignorance of the wrong direction the sooner one get’s to figure out how to make it on the right direction. The wrong direction has been tried and failed and yet we still have idiots that feel the solution is to pack a gun wherever, when ever.
Karen
Read carefully. The past year in the US versus a hundred years in GB. What’s more the tally in the US is twice what it was over a hundred years in G B. ALL the statistics show that the US has a serious problem with violence. So, arm up and start shooting or evolve in the other direction. That’s all it is. The rest is BS.
Shuler
Bam bam subscribes to the philosophy of if one can cut and post some, one can cut and paste a lot!
Mullah Karen, I only call islamophobes islamophobes.
Bam Bam,
What kind of a jerk posts not just one but two interminably long posts that no one will read but expecting people to like, let alone read, this stuff? This method is not the best for reaching the public, ‘specially since we’re used to more limited characters Tweets and what-not.
He was way ahead of his time:
https://youtu.be/XAi3VTSdTxU
General Note: The way to end all this insanity is to just lay down arms.
Then we’ll be left with clearly electing the government that people really want, but that’s not what powers that be want. They apparently profit from killing and wars.
To all those who would raise arms to make your point: That is the last thing you could do to make your point. Lay down arms! No one is served by it. The powers that be consider you to be “useful idiots.” If everyone did that, the world would be a better place. Just let the arms dealers die off from lack of use. That is the only way. What should happen to arms manufacturers and dealers?
at “commoner”
Yes! They count on these violent sensibilities to continue to make prosperous weapons sales. Let the proxy wars continue! God help us all. Come together peaceably to make it all end… or would we all just be shot in a ditch for our efforts?
Boy, there sure are a lot of violent extremists who do not understand how to peacefully practice Islam.
I know! Let’s reform violent Islam from within by peaceful moderates!
And the first way to do that is to stop pretending that violent extremism isn’t happening. But there are many who attack those who call for change.
Po:
“Either that or Turley stops baiting them and laughing his ass off watching them devour the meat of bigotry he serves.”
I highly doubt that Turley is laughing about an article where Iranians torture and kill dogs by injecting them with acid. Were you unaware that Professor Turley is an animal lover?
I am just wondering, is it bigotry to report that Iranians torture and kill dogs, or that there was an effort to criminalize dog ownership under Sharia Law?
Do you typically try to prevent people from speaking the truth about the ME by calling it bigotry?
It is your modus operandi to try to silence those with opposing views by calling them bigots or Islamophobes. There is a well documented history of doing so.
Muslim women reformers face those same attempts to silence them, which is why I admire their courage in speaking out on their opinions. The Taliban shot a little girl in the head to try to silence her. Now she is an international hero.
“Just last week Iran was chanting Kill Israel, Kill America. Now they can add Kill Dogs.”
Ah Paul, but you forget the other kill. That is kill other Muslims. Essential to decipher Arab controlled countries motives. They all lust for dominance. They will kill their rival brother Muslim almost as fast as they would kill an Israeli or American. Fuhgedduboutit. Oh and they all rape 12 year olds or younger. “She only looked 11.” They don’t view the west as aggressors. Or Israel. They just like killing. Just as much as Arafat the (male) child rapist cared for the Palestinians. He died of AIDS like symptoms. With over a billion dollars in Swiss accounts of his peoples money.
@ Old Nurse 12:42
I am in total agreement and hoping for better days for all of us. Not just those rich and opportunistic actors, but for all beings, human and non-human animals alike.