Dogs are indeed shunned as unclean in Islamic tradition. Will this lead to an outpouring an indignation by "moderates," and a subsequent renunciation of the use of dogs by U.S. forces in Afghanistan? Given today's lunatic PC environment, that isn't out of the question.
"2 Taliban militants bitten by US coalition dogs," from AP, August 15 (thanks to Writer Mom):
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — U.S. coalition dogs bit two fleeing suspected Taliban militants during an operation in eastern Afghanistan in which a total of eight insurgents were detained, the coalition said Friday....In Islamic tradition, dogs are shunned as unclean and dangerous.
... which is why I'm a dog person!
Good for you, Scruffy! :)
Bwahaha! lollll
So the "militants" were bitten by the "unclean" dogs? Will they ask the ACLU to give them american citizenship so that they can press charges against the american soldiers?
God bless the american troops.
Hmm, on second thought ... the poor dogs might have to get shots now. Never know what those jihadists are carrying, you know.
Cue the riots and complaints of Weapons of Mass Destrufftion.
Then we will eventually concede and agree to stop using dogs.
So how are the dogs?
1. Oral disinfectant.
2. Mouthwash.
3. Shampoo.
4. Complete check-up by an Army vet.
5. Pat on the head.
6. A large dinner.
In that order.
Who Let The Dogs Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He82NBjJqf8
PETA should be concerned for the canines. I mean having to come in contact with flea infested, disease ridden, and mangy jihadists.
Get em boy!!!!
This is an amusing story, but why didn't US forces shoot these 'militants'?
If they were close enough to get 'bit' they were certainly close enough to get shot.
Major law suit.
Which would they prefer: a dog bite or GITMO?
Have dogs been used in interrogations? If not, they should be. The dog is man's best friend. How could the ACLU object?
a story we may soon see on a jihadist website:
The vile infidel Amerikan oppressors of the faithful have sunk to a new low in their attacks on the faithful in Afghanistan: they are using specially bred and trained packs of dogs to attack villagers. The dogs are referred to as "Afghan hounds".
p.s.
How many now remember the once free and proud Basset people? All, alas, now vanished after the Amerikans loosed their Basset hounds on them.
"Have dogs been used in interrogations?"
PMK,
I was held at bay by a Rottweiler, once. He attacked my dog, in my yard, then grinned at me for what seemed like an eternity. (Before his irresponsible owners came to drag him home.)
I know I would confess to everything I had ever done, thought about doing, and then start making things up, if faced by another Rottie.
So, anyone--what address should I put on the Milk Bones box?
Good work, Scruffy! Now, if only the killed Taleban are cremated with a generous dose of pig blood, the coalition might finally find a cure for jihad fever.
Atta boy Rex
Sic ‘em baby
How about training some attack pigs?
Have dogs been used in interrogations? If not, they should be.
Agreed. Preferably friendly dogs that like to sniff and lick people. That way, no one in their right mind would call it torture, while it would drive the jihadists nuts.
Of course, the Code Pinkos and MoveOn types out there might call it torture, but I said "no one in their right mind".
"Man's best friend" and jihadi's worse nightmare.
Awww. Big bad Taliban militants are afwaid of the wittle doggies. This could make a funny cartoon charicature. The article said that they were running away when they were bitten if I'm not mistaken.
l have seen pictures from early 1900 and late 1880's
of AFgan men posed with their favourite coursing hound the "Afgan Hound" perhaps all that flowing blonde hair these dogs of the past were favourites of the real Afgan people. That was before the arab mentality of taliban invaded Afganistan.
Muslims complain about the French police dogs, and so they are not always impoyed when theywere rioting, l had known a French trainer tell me such news, for which l responded what are guns and bullets for?
I want a U.S.M.C. Dog Whisperer edition G.I.Joe doll.
if having dogs is making muslims unconformable, them i'll get me a couple
Dogs protected against rabies biting into "rabid" Islamic Taliban nutcases. If only there was a vaccine against Islam.
In my tradition, Taliban militants are shunned as unclean and dangerous.
Why don't we just stop using guns?
More dogs! The bigger and blacker and hairier the better. Psy-ops.
And word to the person who suggested training pigs.
Attack pigs - big black ones - would be very, very scary. You could also use them as 'guard pigs' around camp. They are smart and clean (can train to use a designated toilet spot such as a sand tray), and can eat the scraps from the canteen.
Pigs are very very good for sniffer work, such as looking for mines - much better at it than dogs; they are smarter and have a longer attention span. There was an IDF soldier in Israel training pigs in mine detection work and he was very enthusiastic about their abilities.
What matters is the safety and morale of the kafir troops, and victory over the jihad.
If well-trained dogs - and pigs - can find landmines, sniff out suicide assassins and IEDs, warn against ambushes, and scare the living daylights out of jihadists in battle, while also functioning as an excellent psy-ops tool, every well-equipped kafir army and police force all over the world should have some. Lots of them. Big black ones.
I understand that the IDF has been using dogs in counter-jihad actions for a long time - they even have a special graveyard where hero dogs who have died in the line of duty are lovingly buried, complete with headstones.
Note to kafir police in Australia, the UK, Canada, India, the United States and everywhere else:
every time you raid a Muslim household or mosque or suchlike, in connection with specifically jihad-related intelligence, or in pursuit of general criminal activity such as drug dealing, and for all security runs at airports and other locations, take police dogs and sniffer dogs with you, or the sniffer pigs once they've been trained up, and the Muslim whingers can be told to go jump. You need these animals - the extra 'muscle' they provide, and their keen noses.
The Muslims should be implacably informed: the dogs (or pigs) are there to determine whether banned substances are present. If you, O Muslim, are innocent - if there are no fertilisers, TATP, contraband, drugs etc on your person or in your luggage or house or car or mosque - then the dog (or pig) will help establish that. If you are so anxious that the dog (or pig) should not come anywhere near you, it is a strong suggestion that you are hiding something that you fear the animal may detect; step aside, sir or madam, for your complete strip and body search.
Oh yes: and every kafir household, and school, and hospital, and nursing home, especially in districts where there are aggressive Mohammedan colonies, should have at least one dog.
In my list, above, of kafir places that should have at least one dog permanently patrolling the premises to deter Mohammedan raids, I should have included churches and synagogues and other kafir religious establishments/ meeting places/ places of worship.
But don't forget to put the dog's booties on first.
I hope those good, good dogs in Afghanistan bit those taliban terrorists right in the nuts.
If I was still serving, I would've requisitioned some "sniffer pigs"!
Does this mean they get 72 Nancy Pelosi's instead?
Go dog go! I hope the poor things don't get sick now.
My dog thinks radical muslims are dangerous and unclean and she is smarter than any Taliban!
She would probably be a great item of torture. She is one of those dogs who love people, lick you to death and try to crawl on your lap, although she is way to big to be a lap dog.
They wouldn't know what the hell hit them!
We need an army of dog, preferrably, German Shepards, to defeat the Jihadist in Afghanistan. A jihadist will flea like a rat when confronted by a dog.
I asked a Muslim friend why dogs are considered unclean, and he replied that Muslims believe that dogs chase away the angels that protect us.
I thought about that, and thought about how I've seen my two dogs chase each other--or nothing at all--and thought that is a mighty flimsy reason.
Funny that Muslims should despise and flee from dogs, and claim that angels - angels! - are repelled by them also. (Sounds like the behaviour of evil spirits to me, not of protecting angels!).
Maybe this business of hating and reviling dogs is another instance of Muslims seeking to differentiate themselves from the kafir by always doing the opposite to whatever the kafir do.
Zoroastrians revere dogs? - then Muslims will HATE dogs, in order to be as different as possible from Zoroastrians.
Of course, by forbidding the keeping of pet dogs (as also in the perverse attempt to put a complete formal ban on ALL music, sacred and secular, instrumental and vocal) the bleak and life-denying ideology of Islam goes completely counter to the natural grain of every other known human culture.
(The native Tasmanians had never had dogs, until Europeans arrived; but despite the terrible strife and societal collapse that followed colonisation, the native Tasmanians fell in love with dogs at first sight, stole pups or bartered for them, and in very short order worked out how to train them and hunt with them. The dog-human alliance is - it seems - universal and well-nigh instinctive).
Perhaps the simplest way to sum up the radical disjunction between the Muslim disgust for dogs, and the attitude toward them in Western (and most other) civilisations, is to reflect upon the single most famous spiritual use of the figure of the dog, in Western literature - Francis Thompson's poem "The Hound of Heaven".
http://poetry.elcore.net/HoundOfHeavenInRtT.html
One might also reflect on the "Lassie" films.
Of course, all pre-modern Eurasian societies had to fear rabies - but even the real threat of rabies did not stop non-Muslims from keeping, and enjoying, their pet dogs.
Since we are talking about dogs at war: I highly recommend a very entertaining non-fiction yarn by Australian author Ion L. Idriess, entitled "Horrie the Wog Dog". 'Horrie' became something of a legend - see link for photo and his potted biography, provided by the Australian War Memorial, no less:
http://www.awm.gov.au/encyclopedia/horrie/index.asp
The American soldiers whose dogs chased and bit the Afghani jihadists would - I am sure - greatly appreciate the story of 'Horrie' and his Aussie mates in Greece, Crete, Palestine and Syria during the second World War.
If you have friends or family serving in Afghanistan, especially if they are 'dog people' with a dog mascot or are using dogs in action, you could always try tracking down a copy of Idriess' book for them.