Iran issues fatwa against pets
Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products.
Daily Telegraph. 26 August 2010.
Iran issues fatwa against pets.
Iranian authorities have banned all advertisements for pets, pet food and other pet products. The decision by Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance comes after the fatwa was issued by powerful cleric Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi.
While keeping dogs as pets has become increasingly fashionable in Iran in recent years, the fatwa cited Islamic tradition, which dictates that dogs are unclean.
In June, Ayatollah Shirazi declared dogs unclean, saying that dog owners were “blindly imitating the West” and that their devotion to the animals would result in “evil outcomes”. “Many people in the West love their dogs more than their wives and children,” he said.
The ban on pet advertising is the latest attempt by Iran’s culture ministry to undermine “decadent” Western culture. In July, Tehran produced a catalogue of haircuts meeting government approval. The list banned ponytails, mullets and elaborate spikes.
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Qu’elle tristesse pour ces iraniens et iraniennes de ce pays qui aiment leurs animaux de compagnie. Déjà opprimés par le régime, on interdit à ces gens de ce coiffer d’une queue de cheval, une queue de mulet, etc… Comment ces hommes de Pouvoir de ce pays peuvent interdire toute publicité sur les animaux. Au nom de …quoi ? Au nom de la religion. Mon Dieu qu’elle chance de vivre en France
OBVIOUSLY THIS COUNTRY HAS NOT HAD THE LOVE OF A PRECIOUS ANIMAL TO GIVE IT THE RESPECT THAT IT DESERVES AS ALL ANIMALS ARE GOD’S CREATURES AND GIVE NOTHING BUT LOVE AND TRUST WE HUMANS ARE THE BLIND PEOPLE THAT THINK THEY ARE DUMB
So the ‘Grand Ayatolla Nasser Makarem Shirozi’ has issued a ‘fatwa’on the defenceless dog’s of Iran,why not ,everything else is forbidden ,the woman are put in a black bag,and controlled by their men and as the dog is declared ‘unclean’they will be cruelly treated like the rest of the animals in that country.Muhammed supposedly said ‘for charity shown to each creature which has a wet heart[i.e]is alive,there is a reward’and Muslim dietary says,it is harram[unlawful] to beat,mutilate or brand animals,so is the ‘GRAND AYATOLLA MAKAREM SHIROZI’going against one of the prophets[muhammed 's]rulings?what a miserable backward country to live in.,poor women ,poor dog’s.