Many cities said to have imposed prohibition in recent days that echoes 2019 police directive in Tehran
    • abacabadabacaba@infosec.pubEnglish
      172·
      15 hours ago

      Banning abortions is also a religious absurdity, and a more dangerous one. After all, no one died from not having a dog.

      • 3abas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        You smelled the propaganda, bravo!

        And in North Korea, only one haircut style is allowed! Those weird oppressive governments do the weirdest things, so wacky what they’re concerned about, thank God we have our FREEDOMS!

        You’ll notice there are zero citations to backup any of the claims, they reference one newspaper but if you try to find that article all you’ll find is the guardian claiming it exists. It also references 75 lawmakers from 2021, and the only reference I could find for that is this uncited quote: "According to media reports, 75 MPs, or one quarter of parliamentarians, recently signed a text entitled “Support for the rights of the population in relation to harmful and dangerous animals”.

        This comes from theinsightinternational.com, an English only online publication claiming to deliver “unbiased reporting on events and developments in the Middle East and the Kurdistan Region”. Who needs sources!? 75 MPs said this on social media, trust.

        Don’t get me wrong, Islamic fundamentalism and aversion to dogs is real, Iran’s Islamic laws are suppressive and awful, but before you start worrying about what local laws they may or may not be discussing on social media, do a quick Google maps search for pet store and you try to figure out how many people have dogs as pets in Tehran… Then remember two reporters were shot by rubber bullets last night in LA.

  • Mothra@mander.xyzEnglish
    20·
    20 hours ago

    Wtf Iran? Anyone from Iran here willing to comment? The article pretty much sums it up as for religious reasons. But my question is, why now? Anything else happening that triggered this?

    • lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)@feddit.nlEnglish
      27·
      19 hours ago

      According to Islam Q&A

      Islam forbids Muslims to keep dogs, and the punishment for that is that the one who does that loses one or two qirats from his hasanat (good deeds) each day. An exception has been made in the case of keeping dogs for hunting, guarding livestock and guarding crops.

      • burgerchurgarr@lemmus.orgEnglish
        10·
        12 hours ago

        That’s a bit wild. I’m from the Middle East and there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

        There are rules about not keeping dogs where you pray but it’s a pretty extremist stance to forbid keeping dogs. I have some pretty religious family and even some of those have dogs.

        If you search on google for Islam rules you’re gonna find a lot of Westboro Baptist Church kinda sources that have nothing to do with how normal people live.

        • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
          31·
          3 hours ago

          there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

          Perhaps you’ve got cause and effect mixed up

            • iii@mander.xyzEnglish
              2·
              15 minutes ago

              I think I did. Let me rephrase mine, maybe my point of view is better illustrated this way:

              (A) there’s not much love for dogs because we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous.

              (B) we have a lot of stray dogs that are legit scary and dangerous, because there’s not much love for dogs

              How does one discern the causal relationship in these cases?