And everything and everyone else that is not Muslim.

Way back in the day my grandfather who worked in oil was offered a job in Saudi Arabia. He shot down the job. One he didn't want to uproot his family like that. He also had 9 daughters(including my mother) and 2 sons. This was a time long, long, LONG before the internet and radio and TV were barely a thing so yet even he knew. Also raising his daughters to have a bit of a FAFO mentality toward people who tried to push them around. In other words instant international incident the second some Muslim tried something against my mom or aunts.

So awful of them when it comes to being disrespected or with people getting out of line like that in their country.

Thank the Gods they didn't have lynchings in them countries.

Muslims hate everyone who's not a Muslim, yes. But shush! 🤫 Don't say it too loud or you'll ruin it. It's all part of the Master Plan to install the Caliphate in the White House, inshallah. 👀😈 Allahu Akbar.

PS You should go and spend some time in a Muslim country and/or try to make some Muslim friends. You might change your mind about a few things – who knows? (Careful, though: If you make them mad they might chop your hand off with a scimitar. That's just how they roll. (So do the heads of infidels... 💀😵))

I’ll pass.
And thanks for proving my assertion.

It's all good though. Like, sure, it takes a while to get used to. Luckily I only lost my left hand when I first started hanging out with my Muslim homies and accidently offended them. ☠️ But I'm right-handed so it's fine. Plus these days we have awesome prosthetic limbs as well as voice recognition software so it doesn't stop me typing. 🦾

Sarcasm aside, though, it's a lot of people out there in *a lot* of very different countries and cultures. They're not all bad. 🙏 It's like someone saying all Americans are Bible-thumping redneck hillbillies who never left the village and only marry their cousins or something. 🤠

So remember: if you're thinking this about "them", rest assured plenty of "them" are also thinking stuff about you that you know not to be accurate, because it's just what they've heard. Until they meet you and you can show you're not how they imagine.

(Some people overseas also have ideas like that btw and think all Westerners are on a secret Christian military crusade to destroy their cultures. We need to all sit down and talk with real people and find we may not be as different as we think at the end of the day. ✌️)

That’s got to be rough on you… considering the code of Islamic hygienical jurisprudence called Qaḍāʾ al-Ḥāǧa. Look it up.

In my opinion, chickens make better pets

Chickens?

Yes, they're very tasty.
When you're bored of free and organic free-range eggs you can just have them for Thanksgiving and get a new one. 🍗
Great pets.
Plus, they don't poop and wee everywhere or wake up your neighbours at 5 am. (That's roosters. Stick to the female ones. The male ones don't even make eggs so they're not such good value.)

They also take care of your lawn well by keeping it mowed, killing all the weeds and earwigs, and fertilizing it.

Like I said, great pets. Glad we're on the same page lol. (Obviously we are cos we're commenting on the same thread, but I mean in a general sense too.)

👀😶‍🌫️🤭

The males are the alarm clocks

🤣

So basically you need 2 chickens to do the work of a single dog lol. But that's still usually cheaper than buying one dog. Plus, dogs don't lay eggs.

They just lay poop, which isn't as nutritious or tasty, unless you're a dog because they like to eat it. (Also, it often contains parasites that can make you go blind.)

So get a platypus if you want that. But watch out when collecting their eggs for your breakfast because those critters are also venomous. ⚠️ Or, even better, an alligator. Much better than a puny guard dog. 🐊 Thieves will think twice before messing with you then. 💪

Or a kangaroo cos they make up for their lack of egg-laying by being buff af and will beat the crap out of any wannabe chancer. Heck, just save time and move to Australia, where basically everything that moves (or grows) is trying to kill you.)

But everything on the other side of the Pacific is seemingly more expensive except for housing

I bet a platypus or kangaroo is cheaper Down Under than in the US though. Especially now with all those tariffs. (Have you seen the price of platypus eggs at CostCo recently?! 🤯 Trump sure has a lot to answer for.)

You can buy platypus eggs?

I mean, you *could*. Before Trump put his silly tariffs up. 🙄 Gonna decimate the Australian platypus egg industry, I can tell you. That was one of their key exports. Wait for the protests. 🤬 No more kangaroo double cheeseburgers at McDonald's either.

(Actually, no. Think they're a protected species and not even sure they're edible. Plus they're tiny so you'll need a lot to make a decent omelette. Stick to alligator tortillas is my advice. Much easier to breed. Just don't let them get too big or you might be what's on the menu... )

“…Australia, where basically everything that moves (or grows) is trying to kill you.)”
I’ve heard that.
We have a saying in Texas… if it crawls, it will bite you and if it flies, it will sting you.

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It's not so much that Muslims "hate dogs", by the way. On the contrary, actually: kindness and compassion towards animals is an important part of the faith. (What people actually do in different places is a different story, of course, and animal cruelty sadly exists in many places, but that arguably applies equally to Christianity and Christians, or secular people, for that matter.)

One reason you see less dogs as pets in Muslim societies is that in *some* Islamic traditions, dogs are considered ritually impure, so they're not kept as pets by some for that reason. (There are others.) It's not the dog that's bad in itself; it's touching it that's more the practical and hygiene issue when you want to pray.

Plenty of Muslims do keep dogs as pets, of course. Cultural practices (as well as interpretations of sacred texts and Islamic rules, especially interpretations of the Hadiths) vary considerably across countries and cultures when you've got 1 billion people and 1400 years of history.

PS Plenty of Western atheists and others hate dogs also. There are whole online forums dedicated to it lol. 😉 Important not to generalize. 🙏 It has nothing to do with rejecting "Western values". That's a totally separate topic. You can discuss that, but the dog thing is not a great example of it IMHO. 🙃

It's not like you need to own a pooch to prove your loyalty to the West. (Or if it is, I missed that class at school because I've never heard that.)

Do you ever wonder if you fall for religious propaganda?

Because this whole "Muslims hate dogs" thing is religious propaganda. Specifically, anti-muslim propaganda. Unless,you actively hate a specific religion and are deliberately spreading lies about them?

Which do you think it is? You fell for some propaganda or you're spreading lies?

Neither, they hate dogs

Ah, I see you've chosen actively spreading lies and propaganda.