From Adnkronos International:
A 70-year-old man has been sentenced by an Iranian judge to four months in jail and 30 lashes for going out on the street with his dog.
The incident took place in Shahr Rey, a suburb of Tehran when the owner of the dog was caught by a police who quickly handcuffed the man. He was later charged by an Islamic judge for “disturbing the public order”.
The sentence, seems to want to panic the owners of dogs that despite repeated warnings by the police, continue to defy the authorities by taking their dogs outside their homes.
The dogs are at the centre of a theological controversy because Islam considers dogs to be impure.
For this reason, the government has banned owners of domestic animals from taking them on the streets of the city, and owners risk fines or the ‘detention’ of their animals in a pound.
Grrrrr.
I’m a dog lover. I have four of them, and if I had enough open land I’d have 100. Dogs are far better lifeforms than many people I meet.
But not in Islam, where walking your “impure” dog will get you prison time and a beating.
The more I read about Islam …
Iran, dog, Shahr Rey, Tehran, Islam
