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Arctic_Mutt Moderator
Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 292 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Joshua Fox Administrator
Joined: 02 Apr 2001 Posts: 898 Location: The Canadian Rainforest
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 12:25 pm Post subject: Re: Well this is plain out redoncuous |
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You forgot the reason why they did it:
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Saudi religious police ban pet cats and dogs
Jul 30 09:45 AM US/Eastern
Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling cats and dogs as pets, or walking them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.
Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict.
He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz, adding that it follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.
The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public "to make passes on women and disturb families," he said, without giving more details.
Othman said that the commission has instructed its offices in the capital to tell pet shops "to stop selling cats and dogs".
The 5,000-strong religious police oversees the adherence to Wahabism -- a strict version of Sunni Islam, which also forces women to cover from head to toe when in public, and bans them from driving.
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Styx Site Owner
Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 3176 Location: West Covina, California
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 1:31 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe one day they'll decide that sex itself is evil and the whole problem will just go away in a few generations _________________ "Political Correctness is tyranny with manners." Charlton Heston
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Sigurd Volsung Registered User
Joined: 21 Feb 2004 Posts: 3216 Location: The Twin Cities
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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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I agree with Styx. I mean what is wrong with a culture where you can't make a pass at a woman. Hell I still flirt and I'm married, and as far as that goes my wife has made more than a few passes at other women since we've been together.
Then there is the stupidity of the ban itself. As the article said there are many stories in which Muhammad told people to treat their cats well, for such a strongly Islamic country this seems to fly in the face of tradition. If you can't own a cat you can't follow Muhammad's advice. _________________ Bad moods are like hangovers, they eventually go away. - A. Sigurd Olson |
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