Submitted 22 hours ago by Mickey7@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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I have a dog, and I generally agree with the notion.
But, this is about Muslims isn’t it,? I wouldn’t be surprised if there is another one about bacon. This ad is pandering to the populace in the UK who is tending towards racism and xenophobia, most against but not limited to muslims. From market research standpoint, the same populace is probably also big on alcohol consumption so from perspective of market recognition and penetration, this is quite clever.
Muslims hate dogs?
It’s not that all Muslim’s hate dog (1. dislike is not the same as hate, and 2. of course you can’t generalize all muslims dislike dogs). But stricter practitioners of Islam don’t keep dogs for the similar reason they don’t consume pork. Something about dirty animals (haram).
Don’t take my word for it [1] [2] [3]
To quote directly from some scriptures (copy pasted from the third link) :
That the Messenger of Allah said: "Whoever acquires a dog - with the exception of a dog to guard livestock, a hunting dog, or a farm dog - each day a Qirat is deducted from his reward. [Abu Dawood]
I heard Allah’s Apostle(P.B.U.H) saying; “Angels (of Mercy) do not enter a house wherein there is a dog or a picture of a living creature (a human being or an animal).” [Hadith - Bukhari 3:515]
I doubt however many Muslims know why they shouldn’t have dogs as pets as usually they are just told by their parents or elders that they shouldn’t. It’s the same thing in all religions.
I don’t like someone’s untrained dog ambushing me
I like that people like dogs - they deserve a good home and loving owner - but they make me nervous. I was almost attacked by a dog on the street as a kid, and my dad had to take the bite instead to save me. 2 other kids in my family have been bitten by dogs as well, both times by dogs they had spent a significant amount of time with, but that suddenly got triggered by something out of the blue and attacked. I just can’t trust that they’ll always be friendly, and even one second of aggression is enough to cause some real damage.
We have a standard poodle. He’s being trained as a service dog, but he’s not there yet.
He’s getting better, but when he first arrived, he would bark like a maniac anytime someone new entered the house.
We had a painter come in to do some work in our bathroom. He got upset when he heard Leo start barking because he had a traumatic experience with a dog.
Then he saw Leo was a poodle and he was suddenly ok.
I know Leo is all talk, but he’s still a dog. Under all that fluff, he’s basically a Doberman Pinscher.
As long as they stay the fuck away from me.
Makes me want to drink vodka
yakko@feddit.uk 20 hours ago
If you like Ricky Gervais
you can fuck off
manualoverride@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Why? He has always sounded like a really genuinely nice and thoughtful person.
yakko@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
His older work stands up mostly, but lately he has thrown in with the wave of “anti-woke” comedians, repeatedly doubling down when criticised for making transphobic remarks.
A comedian these days has a very difficult choice to make, it must be said. I fully admit it! They have to do a lot of emotional and mental labour to make light of the very dark times we live in, or they can just side with far-right billionaires and culture war reactionaries and just make easy punch-down jokes about people who already face incredible violence. It’s got to be so hard!
Tikiporch@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
He holds some disagreeable opinions and has probably done at least several things wrong.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
I like him and I’m going nowhere.
yakko@feddit.uk 16 hours ago
Yeah you are, you’re fucking off!