And just to show that sniffer dogs aren't the only ones running afoul of the Faithful, Muslims in Dundee are in a lather because a post card advertising a new police telephone number has a puppy on it. For today's bonus round, did the Dundee police:
a) Tell the Muslims concerned that Britain is a dog-loving nation and if the offended don't learn to accommodate themselves to their host's ways, they'd best reconsider their decision to immigrate.If you answered b, then congratulations! You are now the new chief constable!
b) Issue an abject apology and promise never to do such a wicked thing again.
Update: According to The Courier, the incident is a bit overblown due to an overzealous Muslim councilman and that Mahmud Sarwar, trustee of the Scottish Islamic and Cultural Centre and the Dura Street mosque, has said that the dog wasn't really offensive.
That's certainly a welcome development, but it does, however, miss two important points. First, the police should never have apologised for something that no reasonable person would be offended by and second, though their comments are welcome, it is not the place of the Scottish Islamic and Cultural Centre or the Dura Street mosque to have a say whether or not the Tayside police put dogs on their postcards and should have no bearing on any decisions.
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Does this mean the title character of each of the "Scooby-Doo" movies gives Islameofascists the willies?
If ever there was a reason to develop Geneticly Modified super-intelligent talking dogs, (other than the obvious) this is it.
[Bill Cosby discussed the result of giving dogs the gift of speech without altering their intelligence.]
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