Dog owners 'rebel' against fatwa in Iran

to the contrary, in a conservative societies like ours, where we are less likely to show our love and affection in day-to-day life, these dogs are loved and caressed by every one in the family. This show of affection actually trains all member of the family to have respect for others and helps them to come close to each other naturally..

If you are looking for a loving family for your marriageable daughter, then get her married to a family with a loving dog. She surely be respected and cared by the member of such family.Recommend

Dogs and horses are best friends of human beings if they really are human beings.Recommend

Well, Dogs aren’t the only animals available to be kept as pets. Since Dogs are actually considered unclean in Islam, how about cats? I am no expert in Shia fiqh so no idea but two out of four major fiqhs of Sunni Islam do not consider cats to be unclean. Therefore, how about switching over to cats?Recommend

I think Iran needs a counter-revolution to get rid of its mullahs and the Revolutionary Guard from the seat of power. Their reflexive and juvenile notion that anything ‘western’ is bad is counter-productive. First of all Islam is a ‘western’ religion … as much as Christianity and Judaism are ‘western’. Second, Iranians and Pakistanis who pray, go into sajda toward the west. It is us non-namazis who have the dignity not to prostrate ourselves to the west! Third, dogs have been kept in the east too as pets, including our beloved China, including breeds such as the Pekinese and Lhasa Apso. Third, all the countries where the Asian miracle happened, achieved such miracles by rapidly ‘westernizing’ … which in Pakistan is how it is interpreted — I would interpret that as modernization. And yet, they have retained strong elements of their culture. Are they better off or are we? How come they don’t reject modernization, the emancipation of women, a sexual revolution and such things as ‘western’? They see it as a stepping stone to modernity. We should too.Recommend

“Friendship with dogs is a blind imitation of the West,’ he was quoted as saying in Javan daily. ‘There are lots of people in the West who love their dogs more than their wives and children.”

Well said…Absolutely true…!!…
Thats what Islams preaches, everything action should be done within it’s limitRecommend

To ADEEL AHMED

The American College of Physicians stated a few years ago that the best protection you can give your child against disease and being sick is to buy a dog for your child. The dog will strenghten your child’s immune system very early on. Children raised with dogs are by far less sick than those who don’t.

I’ve had dogs all my life. I’m rarely sick. I even allow them to kiss me on the mouth. At times, their tongue will enter my mouth. Men on the street have seen this happen while I walk with my dog in my arms and they tell me it is disgusting. My reply to them is that at least I KNOW WHERE ITS TONGUE HAS BEEN BEFORE.Recommend

TO SUSAN
This message is to SUSAN. Are you from Pakistan? So great to meet another dog lover. What kind of dog do you have?Recommend