Irans Dog Cruelty

[tamborine]

Dogs injected with burning acid coz muslims think dogs are dirty

http://www.barenakedislam.com/2015/04/20/irans-savage-killings-of-stray-dogs-with-burning-acid-has-incited-worldwide-outrage/

[tamborine]

[frugalfred]

Richard Lock sounds remarkably like the vicar! Same actor?

[frugalfred]

sorry, wrong thread!

[VHG]

Years ago we used to have bear bating in this country.

Also sometimes monkeys were tied to dogs backs and sent into a pen with a bear in it see what happened.

Many people went to see this including Elizabeth the 1st.

While we have "grown up" as a country not all have and we cant judge other countries by our modern day standards.

[B00]

Sorry VHG, I strongly disgree.

We could say we shouldn't meddle in the way they treat their fellow humans- but we do, don't we?

[wildwood]

VHG, how on earth can you compare this with anything? These 'people' are scum and should be wiped from the planet. Partial throat cutting of goats so they die of blood loss is bad enough, but this is unbelievable. The more I learn about Islam, the more I come to hate it.

[nailit]

//While we have "grown up" as a country not all have and we cant judge other countries by our modern day standards.//
Why can't we?

[birdie1971]

From the linked article:

"... Dog ownership is controversial in Iran as Islamic custom regards the animals as unclean..."

And that shows just how backward and ignorant Islam is. Unclean? What animal (and I include Man in that group) is "clean". The religious definition of "clean" is a bad joke. In fact, it's sick. A dog is no more or less "clean" than a cat or an elephant or a hippopotamus. It's utterly idiotic to imbue anthropogenic social norms onto animals and then judge those animals using those artificial constructs.

Animals are what they are. The only thing that makes them "unclean" is how we decide to define them.

[mibn2cweus]

Unfortunately, we usually find that people rarely have any more respect for animals (or each other for that matter) than they have for themselves. Given the track record of the particular god one chooses to worship as prescribed by ones chosen religion it is hard to imagine where one is to acquire the self-respect that demands of oneself that they treat others any better than they do.