Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Good fatwa, bad fatwa

In the UAE a cleric has issued a fatwa - a religious ruling - against loud vuvuzelas. Good call.

And now the bad call:

An Iranian cleric has issued a fatwa against dogs. Why? The compelling argument I've heard is that only rich Iranians in a small section of Tehran are rich and westernized enough to have dogs. Putting a fatwa against dogs is a popular appeal to Iranians who don't care much for dogs. If this is what the religiously-backed-unpopular-government has to resort to dog fatwas their days are (hopefully) numbered.

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