# Iranian lawmakers want to ban dogs **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 19, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000 "2011-04-19T21:30:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/1 "2011-04-19T21:30:43Z")
[They view dog ownership as a “Western” custom.](http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/04/19/135542467/iranian-lawmakers-propose-ban-on-pet-dogs) (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.) :rolleyes: **Lighten up, dudes!** ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/2 "2011-04-19T21:33:54Z")
Hey, If you wanna live in a bass ackwards shithole might as well dig deeper and make it the “best of the best”. ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/3 "2011-04-19T21:45:21Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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.) > > :rolleyes: > > **Lighten up, dudes!** If they’re smart, they’ll sell them to food stores in the Phillippines. ---
**Author:** ![Euphonious\_Polemic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/euphonious_polemic/32/3002_2.png) [@Euphonious\_Polemic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euphonious_Polemic)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/4 "2011-04-19T21:50:31Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > If they’re smart, they’ll sell them to food stores in the Phillippines. Like we’re going to listen to someone with _your_ username. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/5 "2011-04-19T21:52:23Z")
> [@Two\_Many\_Cats](#): > > If they’re smart, they’ll sell them to food stores in the Phillippines. Or Turkish brothels. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/6 "2011-04-19T21:58:26Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > . . . (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.) . . . ] 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 law **n** makers 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. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/7 "2011-04-19T22:16:42Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Or Turkish brothels. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [April 19, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/8 "2011-04-19T22:24:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Or Turkish brothels. Damn! One-upped again!😃 ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/9 "2011-04-20T00:29:07Z")
I heard a rumor that the Mods want to ban Philippine brothels in Turkey… -XT ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/10 "2011-04-20T00:59:29Z")
Dogs are unclean? Don’t they still wipe their ass with their left hand after taking a dump? Also it seems like the Mullahs are trying to piss off the people even more when they are already at the breaking point. ---
**Author:** ![Soapscumbuildup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@Soapscumbuildup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soapscumbuildup)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/11 "2011-04-20T01:02:09Z")
: > [@gravitycrash](#): > > Dogs are unclean? Don’t they still wipe their ass with their left hand after taking a dump? > > Also it seems like the Mullahs are trying to piss off the people even more when they are already at the breaking point. 😃 Agreed. ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/12 "2011-04-20T01:09:11Z")
Who cares? Since when is Iran a country of free religious principles? Why the hell do you think most government operations are closed on Sundays? ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/13 "2011-04-20T01:22:46Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > Hey, > > If you wanna live in a bass ackwards shithole might as well dig deeper and make it the “best of the best”. 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/14 "2011-04-20T01:25:32Z")
> [@CitizenPained](#): > > Who cares? Since when is Iran a country of free religious principles? Why the hell do you think most government operations are closed on Sundays? 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. [However our backward stupidity in no way makes banning dogs any less backward and stupid](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque). Nor does it apply to Canadians like the OP, or for that matter to people who want blue laws repealed. ---
**Author:** ![Rand\_Rover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/db5fbb/32.png) [@Rand\_Rover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rand_Rover)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/15 "2011-04-20T01:27:31Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Or Turkish brothels. Post 5. I was off by 3 in my guesstimation. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/16 "2011-04-20T01:31:29Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tao_s_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/17 "2011-04-20T01:33:32Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > [del]Canadians like the OP[/del] Er scratch that, the other Brian is Canadian. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/18 "2011-04-20T01:48:58Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > Or Turkish brothels. Awesome ;). But oddly enough ( or not ), Muslim Turkey has their own [national breed of dog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangal_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 ). ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/19 "2011-04-20T01:49:32Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > **Lighten up, dudes!** 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. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000/20 "2011-04-20T01:55:39Z")
> [@The\_Tao\_s\_Revenge](#): > > 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. They could hide the dog under the burkha. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iranian-lawmakers-want-to-ban-dogs/579000.md?page=2)