This is the dumbest thing I read about the black sheep of the
Muslim religion
Muslims have complained over a police advert featuring a puppy
sitting in an officer's hat.
A police force has apologised to Islamic leaders for the
"offensive" postcard advertising a new non-emergency telephone
number, which shows a six-month-old trainee police dog named
Rebel.
The German shepherd puppy has proved hugely popular with the
public, hundreds of who have logged on to the force's website to
read his online training diary.
But some Muslims in the Dundee area have reportedly been upset by
the image because they consider dogs to be "ritually unclean",
while shopkeepers have refused to display the advert.
Tayside Police have admitted they should have consulted their
'diversity' officers before issuing the cards, but critics argued
their apology was unnecessary.
Richard Cook, director of the Campaign Against Political
Correctness in Scotland, said: "Britain is the greatest dog-loving
country in the world.
"In our culture, dogs are a man's best friend. I don't think Andrex
are likely to be dropping the puppy dog from their adverts and for
the police to apologise is ludicrous."
Rebel has proved a popular recruit for Tayside Police and is about
to venture out onto the streets, having just completed his course
of inoculations.
He was given his name after visiting St Ninians Primary School in
Dundee where pupils put forward hundreds of ideas of what he should
be called.
But some Islamic scholars believe that dogs are impure and
therefore 'haraam' - or forbidden - except for use in hunting or
farming, and that it is not hygienic to keep a dog in the
house.
They say that the "impurity of dogs is the greatest of animal
impurities", and anyone who touches one must wash the body part
that has come into contact with the animal seven times.
Mohammed Asif, a Dundee City councillor who sits on the Tayside
Joint Police Board, said the postcards had been raised this week
with John Vine, the chief constable.
He said: "My concern was that it is not welcomed by all
communities, with the dog on the cards. It was probably a waste of
resources going to these communities. The police should have
understood.
"Since then the police have explained that it was an oversight on
their part and that if they had seen it was going to cause upset
they would not have done it.
"People who have shops just will not put up the postcard. But the
police have said to me that it was simply an oversight and they did
not seek to offend or upset."
A spokesman for Tayside Police said that Rebel had proved
"extremely popular" with children and adults since he joined the
force aged six weeks.
He added: "His incredible world-wide popularity - he has attracted
record visitor numbers to our website - led us to believe Rebel
could play a starring role in the promotion of our non-emergency
number.
"However, we did not seek advice from the force's diversity adviser
prior to publishing and distributing the postcards. That was an
oversight and we apologise for any offence caused."
AFP/01/07/2008
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I don't even think the police need to apologise to those
idiots
It's a bloody picture not like they are asking them to touch the
puppy
Plus if they expect to force their culture down everyone's
throat, they should just go back to which ever godforsaken hell
hole they crawled out from
