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snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 03:24 PM Jun 2013

This restores faith in human kindness. Even though dogs are considered impure in Islam,

this Malsayian couple rescues the strays.

Most Muslims in Malaysia are not dog lovers. In fact, dogs are considered to be impure, making the people who care for them impure by association. It’s unfortunate, to say the least.

Despite that stigma, this married couple made it their life’s mission to care for the stray dogs and cats in their community: Pak Mie, a 55-year-old former contractor, and his wife, Mak Intan. They work selflessly to provide food, housing, and medicine to the strays who rely on them and, as a result, have saved over 600 animals from kill shelters.

Wow. Just wow. Time to step your game up, everyone.



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This restores faith in human kindness. Even though dogs are considered impure in Islam, (Original Post) snagglepuss Jun 2013 OP
If these good people are impure get the red out Jun 2013 #1
There is a Hadith (a saying of the Prophet Mohamed) where a prostitute gives water to a dog dying of CJCRANE Jun 2013 #2
I worked with a devout Pakistani who was extremely Westernized and he was very snagglepuss Jun 2013 #3

get the red out

(13,468 posts)
1. If these good people are impure
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 04:28 PM
Jun 2013

Then I am glad I am too. Impure people are good ones. Dog haters can go to hell. I know I can't say this except cryptically here but there is one particular religion I despise more than the rest of them I despise.

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
2. There is a Hadith (a saying of the Prophet Mohamed) where a prostitute gives water to a dog dying of
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 05:48 PM
Jun 2013

thirst and as a result (the prostitute) goes to heaven.

The moral of the hadith is that you are judged on how you treat every living thing.

That's why I'm always surprised at how some muslims apparently don't care for dogs. They obviously don't read their own holy books (like most believers they don't know much about their own religion).

snagglepuss

(12,704 posts)
3. I worked with a devout Pakistani who was extremely Westernized and he was very
Wed Jun 12, 2013, 07:33 PM
Jun 2013

critical of Muslims treatment of animals as his family had dogs when he lived in Lahore. He really hated Pakistanis for their mistreatment of animals which he saw daily. He said donkeys receive particularly brutal treatment.

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