Dogs are wonderful animals. I like them a lot. I just don’t like to touch them, smell them, hear them bark, get their fur or slobber on my clothes, see their crap on my lawn, or let them get near my daughter when we are walking in the neighborhood. Dogs belong on a farm or in a nice zoo. I guess the religious leaders of Iran share my sentiments.
“The dead from the war against Iraq should consider themselves blessed, he intoned, because they did not live to behold such an affront to Islamic values. “Happy are those who became martyrs and did not witness the playing with dogs! Now in our society women wear hats and men hold dogs!”
“Dog owners say confiscations have been up sharply for months, and special television programs roll out experts to discuss diseases spread by dogs. In a general crackdown announced last week against what they termed moral depravity, the police said dog sellers would be arrested along with women wearing heavy makeup and store owners displaying provocative mannequins.”
“Sellers of stolen dogs work out of their car trunks. They deploy much like drug dealers in Western cities, sidling up to pedestrians to whisper, “Dog, got a dog.” One spotting a foreigner got more specific. “Got a German shepherd,” he whispered.”
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