Shep The Talking Dog

Shep The Talking Dog

Monday, January 18, 2016

Dogs and Islam

Dogs and Islam


    Thanks to pandering Justin Trudeau, there are 10,000 potential dog-haters moving to the GTA, and if his minister of immigration and citizenship has his way, double that number by the end of the year!  This is a warning to both dogs and the humans in their packs.
    At a recent staff meeting, Colette (The Editor’s wife) recounted a tail where about 10 years ago she tried to hail a cab with her Chocolate Lab "Sage". (The people who do talk to me always tell me their dog stories for some reason.) She was rejected by 3or4 Muslim cab drivers before one took pity on her.  The cabbie explained Islam considered dogs "unclean".  He claimed he would have to thoroughly clean the back seat after her fare and do a "cleaning ritual" of his body for being in contact with her and her dog.  She was in the cab from High Park to Greektown, and was lectured the whole way.  At the end of the trip she tried to hand him money, but was told to lay it down so as not to risk him inadvertently touching a hand that was licked by a dog.
   Many Muslims consider dogs to be “Najis” or unclean. Traditionally, dogs have been seen as impure, and the Islamic legal tradition has developed several injunctions that warn Muslims against most contact with dogs, which explains why every time I tried to talk to one they would run away screaming. One little butthole even threw his sandal at me after just saying “good morning”. Needless to say I fetched it and tried to bring it back to him and ended up chasing him for five blocks till he ran into a mosque and slammed the door in my face. I chewed the sandal up of course, but my heart wasn’t in it.
   In an article written by Dr. Ayoub M. Banderker (BVMCh), he speaks to the phenomenon whereby misinformed Muslims took their dogs (and/or cats) to the animal hospitals or mobile clinics during Ramadan, to have them put to death by lethal injection. The reason given by the majority of these Muslims was that Islam forbids them to keep a dog!!!
   This actually is a misguided belief, although the Prophet Muhammad had no love for the four legs, there is an account of him talking to a camel… (Right, like who ever heard of a talking camel.)
    There’s also the story of Muhammed, while traveling with his army to Mecca in 630 CE, posting sentries to ensure that a female dog and her newborn puppies would not be disturbed. But of course that’s just common sense to avoid a bitch and her pups, any dog knows that.
   Point is, although Muhammed officially did not condone killing dogs and even said it’s forbidden to beat animals unnecessarily (like when is it necessary to beat animals?), or to brand them on the face (Now that’s just weird), or to allow them to fight each other for human entertainment. Fact is he was a two legged species snob.
   Here’s something else Muslims won’t tell you about their dear profit Muhammed, He was a collaborator! That’s right. The guy owned a CAT named Muezza. Everybody knows that evil cats are not team players and try to control the humans they sponge off.
It’s said that Muhammad awoke one day to the sounds of the Muslim daily call to prayer. Preparing to attend, he began to dress himself; however, he soon discovered his cat Muezza sleeping on the sleeve of his prayer robe. Rather than wake her, he used a pair of scissors to cut the sleeve off, leaving the cat undisturbed. When he returned from prayers he then stroked his beloved cat three times. Yet to touch a dog before prayers brings a Muslim into a state of ritual impurity. Ritual purification is then required before religious duties such as regular prayers are performed. So cat stink is no problem but a dog sniffs your butt on the way to the mosque and it’s hit the showers for you. The same goes for your unclean humans.
Frankly I’m offended at being treated like a skunk on the say so of some long dead cat lover!
   The point is, like terrorism, Muslims will tell you the hatred of dogs is not part of Islam which is a religion of peace and respect, yet most of them approve of it or would not do anything to speak out against the practice.
   There’s a clash of cultures between the western way of thinking and the way of the middle east. The way they look at Dog and the way you see Dog are two different philosophies. We are seeing that clash in the western European countries and it’s coming here fast folks.

Shep, The Talking Dog