Posted on 10/25/2014 3:30:23 PM PDT by Enza Ferreri
You can watch a BBC video of this dogs event in Malaysia by clicking on the "Enza Ferreri Blog" link above.
Malay Muslims have discovered dogs:
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 19 — A group of Muslims get acquainted with a dog at the ‘I want to touch a dog’ event at 1Utama’s central park earlier this morning. Around 200 dogs and their owners volunteered for the event, which sought to break cultural norms against dogs among Malaysia’s majority Malays.The video on the Malay Mail Online website quoted above is a mixture of people who surround a dog as if they'd never seen one in their entire lives, and other people who wash their hands after having touched a dog, considered by Islam an "impure" animal. In a photo, some participants even wash their feet (don't ask me why).
From an article on the same Malay paper:
Being able [sic] take her two dogs to a public event attended by fellow Malay Muslims was liberating for Rina Z, who has been caring for dogs for the past 12 years.The event was organised by Syed Azmi Alhabshi, who just desired to touch a dog, and we all know that the best way to do that is to stage a mass gathering of dogs and their human companions in your city's central park: otherwise how on earth do you ever get to see a dog, let alone touch him? It stands to reason.As a lady in a hijab cautiously bent down to pet her dog, Kirby, Rina reminisced over the disapproving stares fellow Malays would shoot at ‘tudung’ — the local term for hijab — wearing women walking an animal that is culturally considered “haram” [sinful, forbidden].
“I have a friend who wears a ‘tudung’ who helped walk my dog, and this woman just went up to her and started questioning her; ‘You are a Muslim? You are a Muslim?’ And then she went on and on lecturing her on how it’s not right (for a Muslim to handle dogs),” Rina said.
“Being a Muslim dog owner, you tend not to publicise the fact that you own dogs because you run the risk of becoming a social outcast... but I think it’s time to share the love,” she added, as Kirby meekly sought out his owner for reassurance among the deluge of people stopping by to touch him.
The great pioneer Alhabshi is shown in a picture while he's realising his great ambition and touching a dog for the first time in his life, while the dog looks positively terrified (dogs apparently have an instinct for spotting mental disorders in humans).
Still, Alhabshi is to be praised for doing his bit for introducing Muslims of Malaysia to dogs.
In fact, he's a real martyr for a good cause (I'm not joking here), as for his ‘I want to touch a dog’ event, part of his charity work, he's received death threats and accusations of apostasy by many fellow Muslim-Malays online:
The Malays, furious at his audacity in organising an event to educate the public on Islam’s stance on dogs, have circulated his mobile number online, while on WhatsApp, messages claiming he is a Christian in disguise have spread like wildfire.Here's a little taste of a few of them:Once easily reachable through his phone or Facebook, Syed Azmi has now gone virtually underground, but on Facebook, his friends, family and neighbours in Taman Tun Dr Ismail have been responding to the threats on his behalf.
However, the threats, most of them posted as comments to a Facebook post by Ustaz Mohd Kazim Elias, which condemned the event, are numerous and filled with hate.
[T]his organiser cannot differentiate between what is right and wrong, has a shallow understanding of religion and likes to destroy Islam and should be stoned to death...But I like this most:Let me give the organiser a beating so that he can gain some reason...
I hope this cursed person dies from dog bite.
Another Facebook user, Yusoff Hj Ashaari, said that on top of taking action against Syed Azmi, the public should find the women who posed with the dogs at the event, and pull of [sic] their scarves to see if they wore crucifixes or were concealing tattoos. “Ustaz, this organiser really is a dog,” said Han Khalief.I like it because it shows that, while we in the West don't realise how much we owe to Christianity, people in non-Christian parts of the world well realise that. In this case love for animals is associated with Christianity. True, what these people have in mind may just be the suspect, however absurd, that Christians are trying to undermine Islam by subverting its precepts on dogs.
But there is much more than that, as demonstrated by the fact that an animal welfare movement only developed in the Christian part of the world.
Animal welfare and love for animals developed from the compassion inspired by Christianity.
If we - or some of us - don't attribute the ending of the practice of animal sacrifices and respect for animals in general to Christianity, in the other parts of the globe they do:
The practice [of ritual slaughter of animals] is now far less universal than it was once, and in Christian countries it is generally looked upon as one of the basest expressions of primitive superstition. There is, for instance, hardly a book written to defend the “civilizing” role of the white man in India, which does not give publicity to that gruesome side of Hindu religion, through some bloodcurdling description of the sacrifices regularly performed in the temple of the goddess Kali, at Kalighat, Calcutta.You will want to know how the story ended. Was our martyr stoned to death? No, or at least not yet.
He apologised:
“With a sincere heart, my intention to organise this programme is because of Allah SWT and not to memesongkan (distort) the faith, change religious laws, make fun of ulamas (religious scholars) or encourage liberalism,” he told the media today.Ah, and don't forget - although you may be forgiven for this - that Malaysia is a moderate Muslim country.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KEEP THESE ANIMALS AWAY FROM INNOCENT DOGS!! THESE PIGS WILL KILL THEIR OWN CHILDREN, EVEN AFTER THE CLITORECTOMY!
My best friend is my dog. God wants it that way!
I had no idea Muslims thought this way about dogs (I wonder where cats stand with them?).
I would rather see Islamic countries free of dogs than to have them living among them and being tortured, brutalized, starved and killed. They can all live with me!
Muslims hate dogs. One of many reasons they should be regarded as moral savages & a blight upon this Earth.
Not all Muslims, you say? Maybe so, but it’s the ones in the driver’s seat who drive the hatred. Bottom line.
Muslims like cats because Mohammed liked cats.
Moslems hate dogs because the dogs can sense the evil in the muzzie.
Muslims hate dogs because dogs humanize people. Muslims are not human. Muslims are Satan worshipping biodisease matter.
If you don’t love dogs...you and I have a problem.
Yeah, but in the New testament, the fish get it but good. The apostles caught (slaughtered) so many fish when they cast the nets at Our Lord’s command, that the nets were on the verge of breaking. He even prepares the fish Himself and feeds the Apostles breakfast with it (John 21)!
Besides the fish, there’s the herd of swine who were minding their own business and had demons cast into them, a fatted calf being put to death to celebrate the return of a wayward son.
Yeah, the vegans could have some issues, they just don’t know where to look!
The title is not entirely correct. Though generally an animal lover, there are a few animals I couldn’t care less about: leeches, fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, flies, cockroaches, gnats and muslims.
Muhammed had a cat "Muezza" so cats as pets are OK
. Dogs as pets are not OK.
Source: Sahih Muslim 280 Ibn Al-Mughaffal reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, ordered the killing of dogs and then he said, “What is the matter with them? What is the matter with dogs?” Then he granted concession for the use of dogs for hunting and herding. The Prophet said, “If a dog licks your vessel, then wash it seven times and rub it with earth on the eighth time.”
Aha, finally! Mine isn’t the 13th post!
If you don’t love dogs...you and I have a problem.
That’s right.
The more I get to know some people, the more I love my dog.
Except when I want it to be. :-(
Bttt
ROTFLMAO!! I appreciate your post. A while back and a broken leaf blower ago I learned how true it is. That’s one reason why we NEED functional leaf blowers.
Great, now I have to wash my screen, sprayed hot tea on it. SSSOOOO true!!! :))
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