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The part where they said Muslims liked cats while Christians liked dogs is interesting. I wonder if this is still a bit true.
by seunosewa 11y ago
The part where they said Muslims liked cats while Christians liked dogs is interesting. I wonder if this is still a bit true.
- adrianN 11y agoDogs are unclean in Islam. It's not haraam to own dogs, but many Muslims don't touch dogs.
- tsotha 11y agoIt's not really a stretch to label "unclean" an animal that eats its own feces.
- eru 11y agoLike rabbits? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit#Diet_and_eating_habits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit#Diet_and_eating_habits
- tsotha 11y agoYes, like rabbits. Horses, too.
- bamie9l 11y agoThe health implications aren't as bad with herbivores
- GalacticDomin8r 11y agoUm, yeah I suppose that's one way of way saying. In actually, the health implications are good for herbivores AND other less efficient digestive systems like those in the rodent family.
- teekert 11y agoThe prove that there is no intelligent designer ;)
- boothead 11y agoI feel like this is some kind of meta comment about the tech industry :-)
- TeMPOraL 11y agoMakes you wonder about the contents of dogfood ;).
- dingaling 11y agoCorprophagia is actually a pretty effective method our keeping a litter clean. A nursing dog will stimulate her puppies to defecate and if she can't carry the stools away from the litter she will eat them. Canine gastric acidity can drop below pH 1 to handle this.
- _nedR 11y agoThe behaviour might be hygienic for the dog, but not for the humans interacting with it.
- stefs 11y agoi also wonder if muslim countries suffered significantly less from the plague. edit: according to wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurrence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death#Recurrence), that's not the case: > The Black Death ravaged much of the Islamic world.[91] Plague was present in at least one location in the Islamic world virtually every year between 1500 and 1850.[92] Plague repeatedly struck the cities of North Africa. Algiers lost 30 to 50 thousand inhabitants to it in 1620–21, and again in 1654–57, 1665, 1691, and 1740–42.[93] Plague remained a major event in Ottoman society until the second quarter of the 19th century. Between 1701 and 1750, thirty-seven larger and smaller epidemics were recorded in Constantinople, and an additional thirty-one between 1751 and 1800.[94] Baghdad has suffered severely from visitations of the plague, and sometimes two-thirds of its population has been wiped out.[95]
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- rprospero 11y agoI remember reading about a village that actually brought in large numbers of cats to deal with their rat problem, believing that the rats were spreading the plague. The cats did a fairly successful job of killing the rats off and, as a result, they had a huge plague outbreak. The scholars at the time concluded that the rats and the plague were unrelated. With the benefit of hindsight, we know that the plague is spread by Yersinia Pestis, which is carried by rats and transmitted to humans through fleas. The fleas generally prefer the taste of rat blood and only bite humans when they get really hungry. Of course, when a bunch of cats kill the rats, they have to make do with what's available and the fleas start going after people, vomiting the bacteria trapped within their gut into the human blood stream, spreading the plague.
- sandworm101 11y agoThe total rule against dogs is a relatively modern interpretation in islam. It isn't even to do with the dogs themselves, but that most dogs were smelly and unclean creatures. There is plenty of evidence that the ban really only applied to mongrels, unclean street dogs. Working dogs (hunting/herding/guarding) particularly those similar to salukis, were not considered unclean and were kept. The Quran specifically states that animals caught by trained hunting dog may be eaten (005:004) with the necessary implication that they may be kept and trained. The fear of black dogs is very much ingrained in many Muslim countries. But that tradition predates islam altogether and is widespread even in the west (black dogs are far less likely to be adopted).
- digi_owl 11y agoWell i'll take em. How can someone say no to this? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/BlackLab2009.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/BlackLab...
- DonHopkins 11y agoAnd I'll take the black cats, which are also less likely to be adopted. To make up for that, August 17 is Black Cat Appreciation Day! [1] [2] #BlackCatsMatter #BlackDogsMatter [1] https://www.aspca.org/blog/celebrate-black-cat-appreciation-day-on-august-17 https://www.aspca.org/blog/celebrate-black-cat-appreciation-... [2] https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/black-cat-appreciation-day/ https://www.daysoftheyear.com/days/black-cat-appreciation-da...
- DanBC 11y ago> #BlackCatsMatter #BlackDogsMatter Do you realise how tone deaf you sound here?
- DonHopkins 11y agoNo, please educate me. Should I have said #AllCatsMatter #AllDogsMatter ? Why the hissy fit? Are you accusing me of dog-whistle politics? Does this make you feel better? [1] [2] [1] https://www.pinterest.com/foundanimals/black-dog-appreciation-day/ https://www.pinterest.com/foundanimals/black-dog-appreciatio... [2] https://www.facebook.com/BlackDogAppreciationDayBlackDogWalk https://www.facebook.com/BlackDogAppreciationDayBlackDogWalk
- wsc981 11y agoIf you read "The Innocents Abroad" by Mark Twain (written in ~1850 or so), he writes a lot about the bad treatment of dogs in Arab countries (or at least in Turkey).