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Professor,

I appreciate and admire your seeking out for the answer, and smile wide to the wisdom that is behind your insights. Your friends explanation, can possibly be the closest sensibilities to 'its' knowledge.

I've had guesses as to why Swine, Dog, and Haram ideas scares the daylights out of many Islamic practitioners. I grew up in Malaysia, and had seen many scur at a dog sight/bark, or scringe at a sight of a chinese hawker stand (pig ingredient)...myself included. In this case,ignorance, is not bliss, I didn't feel appropriate to ask my Islamic teachers the reasons why...dog...as I was very curious, but accepted that no other kids were asking. I was a lamb, another follower coming out of the elevator, In retrospect, could it be that the Instructors had assumed that...maybe students will figure it out. Did they really think that I wonder. They probabaly never questioned either.

Recently, my childhood Islamic studies made a return. Had I not conceptually run into the Tao Te Ching, Vedic RTA, Ashura, Mithra, Karbala, I Magi Nation, Jesus 3 wise gifts, Freemasonry, and Semantics...I would be an oxymoron even more, and an anxious follower. At the age of 9, I'd actually thought that if I accidentally brushed hands with a man, I'd be pregnant instantly. In some respects it kept me out of trouble in my teen years. Haha...

I think that the insights of the Quran constitutes Universal Law, history, the act of social institution accountabilities, jurisprudences (due diligences), and more than anything else a path of an equal balanced Being. It is beautiful, and certainly miscontextualized.

I appreciate True Believers like yourself. I wish there were more. Masters by your own right. Now when I seek for a teacher like Ishmael, I am going to seek for one who is just like you. Who is just as curious...and enlightening. Who would asnwer me with a question, so to be able to process and learn further. Thank you. I look forward to read more of your findings out there.

Assalamualaikum.

Thank you for this beautiful clarification. It was very refreshing to read.

Thank you for the interesting article, however one small correction is that the story of the prostitute who gave the dog water is a Hadeeth and is not in the Koran.

Greetings:

Great article. One thing though: I hope that picture of the man with the Saluki isn't intended to be of the Prophet, peace be upon him.

@Safiyyah:

It probably isn't Mohamed; however, if it was, so what? This is a secular, science-based article.

No one's

religious rules apply (or shouldn't).

There's no getting past the point that the blind man and his dog deserved their place on the bus and the Dark Ages Muslim intruders into the UK (and elsewhere) did not.

Very interesting article. Not a very good picture, though. The dog in the picture is a Borzoi, not a Saluki. Not a big deal, sure, until you realize that the Borzoi is Russian in origin.

Saluki: http://dogbreedswiki.com/images/dogst/Saluki1.jpg

Borzoi: http://www.yakima-herald.com/images/photos/2011/02/16/021611_CaspertheBo...

So if the people on the bus that were freaking out on the seeing eye dog on the bus helping a 71 yr. old blind/cancer patient. Why did the old man and the dog have to get off the bus. Make the healthy person freaking out get off. The dog wasn't hurting anyone and had every right to be there. I realize you can't help ignorant people but why should the elderly sick man be made to get off in an unfamiliar area because of the ignorance of another? That was totally wrong.

So why did the people on the bus freaking out get to stay on the bus when the old, sick, blind man gets kicked off ? I don't get this. The man and his dog were not doing anything wrong and it's legal to have a working dog on the bus. The peope freaking out should get off the bus. So you now have a old sick, blind man in an area he is not familiar with to be attacked or to get lost in. Not good at all. The bus driver should be fired.If that was my father I would sue.

I am sorry to say but there are many errors in this article that aren't true about Islam. Prophet Muhammad(pbuh) isn't the one who allowed the women to enter jannah it was Allah, the story isn't in the queen it was a hadith. Muslims can't anything caught by a hunting dog, they can set what has been mentioned in the Qur'an.
jazakallah.