They view dog ownership as a “Western” custom. (To Muslims dogs are unclean, meaning that if you wash your hands and face for prayers (which Muslims do) and happen to touch one, you have to wash up again before you pray.) Dog owners would be fined and their dogs would be confiscated. What the authorities would do with the dog is unspecified. (The puppies, at least, presumably would fed into wood chippers.)
In the US, that’s the same rule if you pet the dog before eating.
So far, this is a proposed law. And it looks like you can still have a dog if you keep it in your house and yard or outside city limits. I’m not sure how upset to get over proposed legislation. Actually, my Dad was a germophobe, so what I’m mostly feeling is a weird nostalgia. A whole country of . . . my Dad - tense and ready to scream if a pet hair gets on a towel.
And am I the only one who read it as Iranian lawnmakers want to ban dogs? 'Cause a lot of people with lawns have trouble with other people’s dogs. Although I can imagine that the next proposed law will ban lawns as Western.
I assume you think that France and other European countries are also “bass ackwards shitholes” since they are trying to tell women what they can’t wear.
There’s been threads on that too! It’s worse than that. Not just government, but many states have blue laws so businesses are bared from operating during church.
Fuck yea burka bans are stupid, and human rights violations. However if Iran achieved a state only as bad as burka bans it would be a welcome step forward.
Instead they’re considering killing people’s pets over religious dark-ageism.
But oddly enough ( or not ), Muslim Turkey has their own national breed of dog. One I wouldn’t try fucking if my life depended on it ( and if I tried, it probably would - they’re big and not exactly the sweetest critters on the planet ).
If they were any more retarded, they would pass a law requiring future Iranian presidents to provide non existent paper work that proved they were really Muslims and not super secret Anti Christs or some such.