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"How loving owners transport their dogs,” he wrote, in a reference to the oft-told tale of how Romney once went on a 1983 family trip to Canada with his pet Irish setter, Seamus, strapped into a dog carrier on the car roof.
More recently, the Obama camp has actively tried to exploit the issue, launching a group, Pet Lovers for Obama, and asking donors to “throw a bone” to Bo.
Online critics, however, have begun shooting back at the president, recalling how Obama once copped to eating dog meat in his 1995 memoir, “Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,” after being introduced to exotic local cuisine by his Indonesian stepfather.
He said it tasted “tough.”
“I learned how to eat small green chili peppers raw with dinner (plenty of rice), and, away from the dinner table, I was introduced to dog meat (tough), snake meat (tougher), and roasted grasshopper (crunchy),” Obama wrote.
Instead of just letting the dog fight stay in the blogosphere, Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom decided to get involved Tuesday.
He tweeted a message saying the limo shot of Obama with his dog was “In hindsight, a chilling photo” because of his past doggie din-din.
Yesterday, Romney tried to distance himself from the dog war.
“I think this campaign is ultimately going to become about jobs, not dogs,” Romney told an Ohio radio station.
Obama
admits eating dog, ..."but not mistreating it!"
Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car — not the roof of his mouth.
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source: The
Daily Caller
Say what you want about Mitt Romney, but at least he only put a dog on the roof of his car — not the roof of his mouth.
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source for Quran information below: http://www.quran-islam.org/articles/dogs_(P1159).html
"You would think they were awake, when they were in fact asleep. We turned them to the right side and the left side, while their dog stretched his arms in their midst" 18:18
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Dogs: Are they dirty, prohibited
animals?
It is
traditional among Muslims all over the world to regard the dog as a dirty animal
that when touched would void the wudu (ablution) and infect the one who touched
it with "nagasah" (dirty impurity)!
Sadly, this concept comes from fabricated hadith which
claims that the Prophet ordered the killing of dogs and gave numerous hadith
that prohibit the keeping of dogs except for hunting and guarding, due to their
dirty status!
However, by studying the Quran we
find no such truth. No where in the Quran are dogs prohibited, nor is there any
mention of any contaminating effect of these lovely animals who are man's best
friend. Consequently, we must dismiss all these hadith that fabricate lies
against the Prophet.
1- God tells us in the Quran about the story of the
dwellers of the Cave (Surah 18). In verse 13 God tells us that they were good believers and that God guided them. In
verse 18 God tells us that they had their dog with them.
Now if dogs are prohibited and
dirty, would God speak of those dwellers of the Cave (who had a dog) as good
believers?
2- In 5:4 God tells us that it is okay to eat
what the trained dogs catch (dogs are used in hunting). Now if the dog is an
animal which causes contamination by mere touch, would God tell us it is
perfectly okay to eat what the dog catches with his mouth (let alone just touch
the dog)?
3- The Quran contains a
very important rule for all believers, and the rule is:
Nothing is haram (unlawful) unless it is prohibited by
God Himself, and since God describes the Quran as complete, perfect and fully
detailed, thus all the prohibitions decreed by God are found in the Quran. The
following Quranic verses confirm this truth:
“Say, "Who prohibited the nice things God has created for
His creatures, and the good provisions?" Say, "Such provisions are to be
enjoyed in this life by those who believe. Moreover, the good provisions will be
exclusively theirs on the Day of Resurrection." We thus explain the revelations
for people who know.” 7:32
“Shall I seek other than God as a source of law,
when He has revealed to you this book fully detailed?” 6:114
“You shall not utter lies with your own tongues stating:
"This is halal (lawful), and this is haram (unlawful)," to fabricate lies and attribute them to
God. Surely, those who fabricate lies and attribute them to God will never
succeed.” 16:116
There is not one verse in the Quran where God says
that dogs are dirty or that they are prohibited to keep.
4- Is it logical that God would create an
animal to be man's best friend and serve him in many ways, and then prohibit
such an animal?
5- If this is what the Quran has to tell us
about the issue of dogs, then where does all the prohibition come from? Where do
the claims that dogs are dirty animals which if touched would void our ablution
and render us impure come from? As most other corruptions which have crept into
Islam, the source is always the fabricated hadith which are falsely attributed
to prophet Muhammad!
Hadith tell us that the Prophet prohibited the keeping
of dogs as pets. Other hadith tell us that angels won't enter a room where there
is a dog. Other hadith tell us that if we touch a dog our ablution is void and
we become impure, and that we have to wash seven times to clean this
impurity, the final time in dust. That seems
inconsistent with the Quran saying you may eat what they catch for you! Some
other hadith go even beyond that to say that we must kill all black
dogs!
"Malik related from
Nafi from Abdullah Ibn Umar that the Messenger of God ordered all dogs (other
than sheepdogs or hunting dogs) to be killed".
The following are some examples:
Malik's Muwatta, Book
54, Number 54.5.13:
Ibn Hanbal's
collection: The Messenger of God said:
"You shall kill all
black dogs, because they are devils."
The question is: Did
the Prophet really issue these prohibitions? In addition, did the Prophet have
the authority to issue these prohibitions?
The answer is given
in the Quran:
"O you prophet, why
do you prohibit what God has made lawful in order to please your wives? God is
Forgiver Merciful" 66:1
Obviously God did not
include the words in 66:1 in the Quran to belittle the Prophet in our eyes, but
these words are placed in the Quran in order to confirm to all believers across
all time that the Messenger of God does not have the authority to prohibit
anything which is not prohibited by God. God is the only Law Maker (6:114) and
the only duty of the messenger is to deliver God's message
(5:92).
The outcome of all
the above is that we must discard all the lies attributed to the prophet
regarding prohibiting dogs and be focused on the Quran as the only source of
guidance and religious law.
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