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Saudi Religious Police Ban Pet Cats And Dogs
AFP ^ | July 30, 2008

Posted on 07/30/2008 12:49:36 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.

Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict.

He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz, adding that it follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.

The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public "to make passes on women and disturb families," he said, without giving more details.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: bizarro; kooks; loons; lunatics; saudiarabia
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To: bajabaja
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2053877/posts

Call in and support tomorrows hearing that includes Steve Emerson testifying.

21 posted on 07/30/2008 1:20:14 PM PDT by bayouranger (The 1st victim of islam is the person who practices the lie.)
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To: mc5cents

Excellent post.

Their history shows that they move in until their numbers are large enough that they can impose their values on the host nation. This doesn’t require being in the majority in a place like the U.S.

It takes one law suit or the threat of one.


22 posted on 07/30/2008 1:27:21 PM PDT by LaurenD
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To: 2banana
The koran calls dogs evil and that they should be killed and never be held as pets.

That's because dogs are more sensitive to demonic spirits than men and will bark at them.

23 posted on 07/30/2008 1:29:11 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: Centurion2000
That's because dogs are more sensitive to demonic spirits than men and will bark at them.

Is that sarcasm or are you serious?
24 posted on 07/30/2008 1:30:37 PM PDT by Scythian
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To: 2banana

As someone who today had to put down my 13 year old beagle. I can’t say publicly on this site what I think of the Koran.


25 posted on 07/30/2008 1:34:28 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (Freedom is purchased not with gold, but with steel.)
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To: Scythian
Is that sarcasm or are you serious?

Seriously, dogs have always been thought of as more sensitive to the supernatural.

I think one reason that the "dogs are to be killed" in the Koran is that it is satanically inspired. So, kill the watchdogs against supernatural influence, namely dogs.

26 posted on 07/30/2008 1:36:23 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (A citizen using a weapon to shoot a criminal is the ultimate act of independence from government.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
I wish I could have met Jake! He sounds like the Perfect Golden.

I used to ride a horse, an ex-racing Quarter Horse, that LOVED beer. He would stick his head out the stall door and whinny if he smelled any (and he could apparently smell it at 50 yards, with the cap still on the bottle).

I asked my vet if it would do him any harm to give him some. When she stopped laughing, she said as long as we didn't set him so drunk that he fell over, it was probably good for his digestion.

So we would wrap a leg bandage or a towel around the neck of the bottle and tip it on up, and Mister would glug a couple of glugs and it was gone!

27 posted on 07/30/2008 1:45:37 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: libstripper
LOL!

No Animal Control shelters and almost no rescue orgs (except those dedicated to the breed) will admit to any Pit or AmStaff in their dogs.

I've known some sweet Pits, and some really mean Labs and even a mean Golden (I know it's rare, but it happens).

28 posted on 07/30/2008 1:48:02 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: xkaydet65
Gosh, that's too bad.

Nothing I could say will be much comfort, but you have all my sympathy. It's hard to part with them.

29 posted on 07/30/2008 1:48:59 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: SatinDoll
I know a Boykin breeder if the urge ever gets the better of you.

I've got two crazy Labs. Would love to have a Chessie but it would have to be the right one. They can be great dogs for an amateur, or they can be Way Too Much Dog, depending on the bloodline and the pup.

30 posted on 07/30/2008 1:51:01 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chase, TTGS Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: Little Ray

If you ask me, Islam’s hate of dogs is proof that the religion is evil.
Personally, I think Mohamed and Allah hated them because they’re good judges of character...


Ding ding ding - we have a winner!


31 posted on 07/30/2008 1:52:39 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: AnAmericanMother

We hired a car and driver to show us the sights of Mexico City many years ago. He stopped at a market the featured a beer driking mule. For 4 Pesos, I set the opened beer bottle on the ground in front of the mule. He picked it up and drained it and would do it over and over...


32 posted on 07/30/2008 2:01:46 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: AnAmericanMother

Thanx much. We’ll see him again at The Bridge.


33 posted on 07/30/2008 2:06:55 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (Freedom is purchased not with gold, but with steel.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Gee, if you're a Saudi you better stay the hell away from my house. I've got five cats and two dogs. FatCatwa!
34 posted on 07/30/2008 2:17:33 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat
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To: Little Ray
Personally, I think Mohamed and Allah hated them because they're good judges of character...

Mohamed was a just a cat person (an unfortunate tid-bit that has come down through history and bears no reflection on cat people in general - really).

If Mohamed had hated walnuts, the islam would consider walnuts unclean. Scenes from the Life of Brian come time mind when I think of islam.

35 posted on 07/30/2008 2:19:55 PM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: Free ThinkerNY

bump


36 posted on 07/30/2008 2:26:00 PM PDT by MissouriConservative (Never pick a fight with an ugly person; they've got nothing to lose.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Then there was “Billy the Beer Drinking Bison” somewhere on the road from Freeport to Houston.....


37 posted on 07/30/2008 2:29:37 PM PDT by Robe (Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
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To: 2banana
The koran calls dogs evil and that they should be killed and never be held as pets.

Send in the Chinese and Koreans and the problem will disappear.

38 posted on 07/30/2008 2:31:34 PM PDT by Iron Munro (Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
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To: AnAmericanMother
No Animal Control shelters and almost no rescue orgs (except those dedicated to the breed) will admit to any Pit or AmStaff in their dogs.

I think that's what happened to me. The Scott County, KY, Humane Society got this really sweet black and white puppy with BIG paws and decided to foster him and adopt him out. They probably suspected he was part Pit but thought he might be part Dane instead and represented him as being part Dane. My problem is he gave his all to me and turned out to be a totally sweet dog by the time it became obvious he was a Pitador instead of a Daneador. Given what a wonderful character he was and is, I couldn't very well destroy his whole life just because of some human error. Now my big problem is keeping him from pushing me out of bed at night.

39 posted on 07/30/2008 2:39:00 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Free ThinkerNY

So what’s the big deal. Just have the religeous police lop off a few heads (of the owner’s, naturally). That will definately stop the practice and give their government a chance to practice what they like to do. MORONS.


40 posted on 07/30/2008 2:43:55 PM PDT by GoldenPup
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