Re: What do Muslims have against dogs?

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From: Jacques Guy
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:14

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Kate Le Rosi wrote:

> I just heard on the news that some of the skirmishes between civilians and
> soldiers at checkpoints in Iraqs have been caused by the civilians refusing
> to be approached by sniffer dogs.

> Apparently they find dogs "culturally offensive".

It is true.

> Even assuming this is true, anyone know why?

Yes. Because dogs eat human excrements (and so do pigs).
So they are considered unclean, like pigs. There one exception:
one breed called, if memory serves, saluki, which, 
I suppose, does not eat excrements.

However, in the Thousand and One Nights, there is a tale
of a man turned into a dog by a djinn. He finds refuge
in the palace of Harun al-Raschid, the caliph of Baghdad.
"Fortunately," he tells, "the Caliph was not one of those
bigots."

And since this goes to aus.pets...

On the other hand, cats are supposed to well regarded.
There is a legend that the prophet Muhammad, finding
his cat asleep on his sleeve when he was to make his
prayer, cut off the sleeve rather than disturbing the cat.
Another version has the cat asleep on the prayer mat,
and Muhammad cutting that piece out, and saying his
prayer on his mat with a hole in the middle!

(In exchange for this bit of info, tell me: what's this
got to do with motorcycles?)

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