Iranian Hypocricy – Dogs Not ‘Pure’ Enough to be Pets But Good Enough to Guard the President’s Life?
Published on February 11, 2008 by Freelance Contributors · 3 CommentsIranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reputedly acquired four dogs to guard him and his family despite the fact dogs are considered to be impure.
Ayatollahs are upset that the president has purchased the dogs – at a reported cost of £81,000 each from top German breeders -as there are serious implications over the ‘purity’ of dogs in the Islamic faith.
The Iranian government has banned pet dogs from the streets under threat of detention for their owners and impounding for the dogs.
The president’s purchases have caused some in Iran to question how it is right for him to have dogs guarding him whilst ordinary citizens are not even allowed to take them in the streets.
Fars agency – considered by many to be unofficial spokesman for Ahmadinejad – is quoted:
“First of all these dogs are only of a German breed, bought as puppies, but grown and trained in Iran in the hands of Iranian instructors,” Fars said.
“The purchase of these dogs was authorised by a fatwa issued by several ayatollahs who approved the use of these animals if the only goal was to guarantee personal security and not infringe on any religious rule.”
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“Impure” only means that you should wash your hands and observe other religiously-required hygenic requirements around dogs, cats, etc, — not that you can’t have dogs or cats as pets (persian cats are world famous, you know.) There is even a government-sponsored dog show:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0621/p09s02-wome.html
So don’t promote bigtory against Iranians if you don’t know what the heck you’re talking about.
Fair points Hass. But then there are also stories like this
http://k9magazine.com/viewarticle.php?sid=15&aid=2203
which were supplied by journalists from inside Iran, which paint a non too positive picture of the country’s attitude to dogs.
Hass
You cannot criticise Ryan O’Meara if Iranian journalists are filing articles that point out the extreme anti-dog measures of the Iranian Government such as taking dogs off people when they are walking them in the street? On the other hand the President of Iran has four security dogs to guard him but gets special dispensation from several religious leaders, where is the fairness and democratic approach in that? I may be totally niave about this but I always thought that ‘Republic’s’ were for the people but then again like most countries around the world of whatever religious and political creed there is always the ‘do as I say, not as I do’ attitude of the ruling classes and establishment figures. Luckily things are not this bad for dog owners in the UK…..yet!