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Banning Dogs as Pets
FrontPageMag.com ^ | 7 Feb 2012 | Bruce Bawer

Posted on 02/07/2012 4:21:07 PM PST by LSUfan

This is how it happens, folks. Little by little. Law by law. The proponents of sharia get themselves elected to positions of power – and then, before too long, they start trying to subject the rest of us to it, bit by bit:

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: burnsharialaw; corruption; crushislam; doggieping; islam; islamofascism; jihad; kalbislam; mohammedanism; nosharialaw; religionofpeace; rop; sharia
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1 posted on 02/07/2012 4:21:09 PM PST by LSUfan
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To: LSUfan

IMO, Obama puts the ‘family dog’ on another plane because he will not travel with it, as he & HIS religion considers dogs unclean. Poor Bo.


2 posted on 02/07/2012 4:27:30 PM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: LSUfan

My dog is a local celebrity and he never leaves the yard. I walked in on a conversation about him at the post office the other day.


3 posted on 02/07/2012 4:30:19 PM PST by cripplecreek (What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world but loses his soul?)
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To: LSUfan

Reason #34,964,336,152 why I hate, loathe, and utterly abhor islam.


4 posted on 02/07/2012 4:33:04 PM PST by MeganC (No way in Hell am I voting for Mitt Romney. Not now, not ever. Deal with it.)
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To: LSUfan

Nothing demonstrates better the the twisted perversity that is Islam more than its phobia about dogs. Well, nothing other than the habit of blowing up children,subjugating women, and worshiping a loser anyway.


5 posted on 02/07/2012 4:36:05 PM PST by Minn (Here is a realistic picture of the prophet: ----> ([: {()
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To: LSUfan

I point and laugh at the followers of the desert moon-god. And that includes the Kenyan Muslim Occupant.


6 posted on 02/07/2012 4:36:14 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: ridesthemiles

Is that why the wookie travels in a second aircraft? Just ask’n ;-)


7 posted on 02/07/2012 4:41:07 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote!)
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To: LSUfan

Strange, I tried going to your link more than ten times - it would show the page for a few seconds then skip to a nearly blank web page with a different URL than frontpage.com.

When I hit the back button, it would go to the dog story again but only for a few seconds and jump forward again to the same blank page.

I’ve never experienced that kind of page jumping before.

Is frontpage.com a “for pay” site?

Anyone else experience that?

Needless to say, I never could read the article.


8 posted on 02/07/2012 4:42:50 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: LSUfan

I’d get a dog and a pot bellied pig.


9 posted on 02/07/2012 4:47:23 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: LSUfan

Some dog quotes:

“I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren’t certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.” ~George Bird Evans, Troubles with Bird Dogs.

“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.” ~Author Unknown

“The more I see of man, the more I like dogs.” ~Mme. de Staël

“They never talk about themselves but listen to you while you talk about yourself, and keep up an appearance of being interested in the conversation.” ~Jerome K. Jerome

“Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.” ~Roger Caras

“The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue.” ~Author Unknown

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.” ~Robert Benchley

“You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.” ~Robert Louis Stevenson

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.” ~Josh Billings

“Children are for people who can’t have dogs.” ~Author Unknown

“The more one gets to know of men, the more one values dogs.” ~Alphonse Toussenel


10 posted on 02/07/2012 4:50:54 PM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

This is how it happens, folks. Little by little. Law by law. The proponents of sharia get themselves elected to positions of power – and then, before too long, they start trying to subject the rest of us to it, bit by bit:

Hasan Küçük, Hague councilor for the Islam Democrats, says dogs should be banned as pets in the city, reports De Telegraaf. The Muslim party says that the animals belong in nature, not inside the house. Küçük says that keeping dogs is animal abuse and should therefore be criminalized.

Needless to say, Hasan Küçük’s concerns have nothing whatsoever to do with animal abuse – and everything to do with the fact that Islam considers dogs to be impure. Like women, Jews, and gays, dogs are on the front line of the confrontation in the West between sharia-observant Muslims and the rest of us. When you see Muslims making trouble over dogs, you can bet that it’s just the beginning of all kinds of trouble over all kinds of things that run afoul of Islamic religious law

To be sure, Küçük’s suggestion – which came in response to a proposal by animal-rights advocates that The Hague be made more dog-friendly – was immediately shot down by other members of the city council. Küçük was undoubtedly not surprised. He knows these things don’t change in a day – they change over time, by a gradual process of wearing down. People like Küçük are exceedingly patient. And they trust in their own patience and intransigence – and in our weakness, our distraction, our readiness to give in, eventually, under steady pressure, on what may seem to us like small matters that are not worth fighting over.

Küçük’s proposal is nothing new. For years now, the Western media have featured, with some frequency, news stories about blind people with guide dogs being refused taxi rides by devout Muslims cabdrivers, being thrown off buses because of complaints by Muslim passengers, or being refused access to stores by devout Muslim shopkeepers. Daniel Pipes has been assiduous in cataloging such cases, some of them dating back to the 1990s, in places ranging from Milwaukee to Melbourne.

The Muslims in these cases invariably argue that their religion commands them not to be around dogs. But it’s not just about dogs but about pretty much every little detail of daily life. The same people who object fiercely to the presence of dogs in their shops or cabs also maintain that their religion commands them not to do, or touch, or say, or see, or be in the vicinity of a great variety of things that are commonplace in the Western world. And once they’ve gotten their way with regard to dogs, they’ll move on to another thing – and then another, and another – at which they take offense, and once again spell out exactly how they expect non-Muslims to change their behavior in order to keep the peace.

It’s the logic of conquerors. But many authorities in the West have bowed to it. In British Columbia, cab drivers whose “honest religious belief…precludes them from transporting certified guide dogs” have been exempted from having to do so. The Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport has alsoworked out a “compromise” between blind people and Muslim cabbies. In Britain, in response to Muslim complaints about “sniffer dogs” used to identify terrorists at airports, authorities limited the dogs’ activities out of “cultural sensitivity.” When sniffer dogs are taken into mosques or Muslim homes, moreover, they’re fitted with “leather bootees” to avoid giving offense.

Generally speaking, as the Muslim percentage of a city’s population climbs, the demands for appeasement grow more and more aggressive. Last year,reports Soeren Kern, Islamic groups in the Catalan city of Lérida – which is 20% Muslim – called for a ban on dogs on public transport and in certain public spaces on the grounds that their presence violates Muslims’ “religious freedom and their right to live according to Islamic principles.” The city’s refusal to introduce such a ban was succeeded by a series of dog poisonings. No surprise there: this is precisely the kind of development that one can expect after a certain point in this process, when demands and pressure haven’t turned the trick.

To treat Muslims’ complaints about dogs as if they deserve serious and respectful consideration is, of course, absurd. But over time, even the absurd becomes familiar. That’s one thing these people are counting on. They’re counting on their ability to wear the rest of us down gradually, accustoming us to ideas, beliefs, and “sensitivities” that, at first blush, strike us as ridiculous. They’re counting on our ultimate willingness to compromise our values, one by one, out of fear of conflict and a misguided ardor for social harmony. They’re counting on our readiness to tell ourselves that we’re not surrendering or being submissive but are simply being good, respectful, cooperative neighbors.

It’s precisely in this way that sharia law is being introduced, step by inexorable step, into the West. The only way to put a halt to it is to ensure that everyone in a position of power in the West is aware of exactly what the Hasan Küçüks among us are up to, and is willing to stand up to them every step of the way – knowing that it’s not about dogs, but about dogma; not about puppies, but about power.


11 posted on 02/07/2012 4:54:17 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

OOpps - clicked the wrong tab before I was ready to post. That was a complete quote of the article.


12 posted on 02/07/2012 4:55:19 PM PST by Baynative (The penalty for not participating in politics is you will be governed by your inferiors.)
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To: Old Sarge

Ya gotta wonder about people who worship a chunk of meteorite in the desert and wipe their butts with their bare hand calling dogs “unclean.” How would this turkey like it if I said he was unclean because of his ridiculous made-up religion. And besides my westie happens to be quite fastidious about such things and the only false idol he worships is the refrigerator (’cause that’s where the chicken necks are kept).


13 posted on 02/07/2012 4:55:48 PM PST by rex regnum insanit (falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus)
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To: LSUfan

These are days in which it is good to be old.


14 posted on 02/07/2012 4:57:31 PM PST by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Baynative

I consider radical Muslims impure.


15 posted on 02/07/2012 4:57:33 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: Bartholomew Roberts

I’m on a blackberry and, by being patient, I had no trouble reading it.

I don’t know where this story took place, though it sounds like England.

What the story is basically commenting on this Muslim counselor who pushed a motion to ban dogs within the city limits, supposedly because dogs should be running free in the country.

The councilman knew it wouldn’t pass, but it was the first step in a journey to getting dogs banned.

Check my sig to know my opinion on this.


16 posted on 02/07/2012 4:58:33 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Minn

“Nothing demonstrates better the the twisted perversity that is Islam more than its phobia about dogs. Well, nothing other than the habit of blowing up children,subjugating women, and worshiping a loser anyway.”

You forgot to mention buggering little boys.


17 posted on 02/07/2012 4:59:19 PM PST by 43north (BHO: 50% black, 50% white, 100% RED)
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To: LSUfan

Tactics (mandates) of TOTALITARIANS.

Life, liberty and the pursuit and destruction of TOTALITARIANS.

Fislam

FUT


18 posted on 02/07/2012 5:01:25 PM PST by PGalt
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WOOOF!

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19 posted on 02/07/2012 5:02:31 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Baynative

Thank you VERY MUCH!

The article was worth reading.

I really appreciate you taking the time!

Brad


20 posted on 02/07/2012 5:02:53 PM PST by Bartholomew Roberts
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