Let there be dogs!

Diane Bederman | Feb 26, 2026

First they came for the Jews:

Allah’s Messenger (?) said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. “O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.”

And there was silence.

Then they came for the Christians

“Oh People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion, nor say of God anything but the truth. Christ Jesus, the son of Mary, was (no more than) a messenger of God, and His Word which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him. So believe in God and His messengers. Say not, ‘Trinity.’ Desist! It will be better for you, for God is One God, Glory be to Him! (Far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is God as a Disposer of affairs” (4:171).

And there was silence.

Then they came for the dogs

The Prophet (pbuh) said: “The angels do not enter a house in which there is a dog or an image.” 

And that’s where we draw the line! That’s the straw that broke the camel’s back.

When Muslims came after dogs, America woke up to the evil of Islam.

“The political system of Islam is totally incompatible with western democracy.

“The concept of government party and the opposition is alien to Islam.

“All belong to one Ummah with only one goal and pursue the same aims and objects of Islamic guidelines!”[Online publication of ICNA Canada’s site] 

The member states of the OIC ( Organisation of Islamic Cooperation) called “to respect the freedom of religion of all Muslims and not to deny them the right to exercise their civil and cultural rights.”

Without Randy Fine, would you have paid attention to this?

Palestinian Islamic scholar in Chicago, Mohammad Nusairat: “We did NOT come here to coexist. We are superior to everyone else and will not be surpassed. No one is above us. If other religions want to live with us, they have to worship Allah.”

All of this came about because of a tweet regarding the views of Muslims about dogs and the response to the tweet by Congressman Randy Fine. A friend asked me how did we ever get to a place where one is expected to choose between a dog and a Muslim: an either /or proposition?

Fine’s tweet on Feb. 15:

“If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”

Hmm

How dare he? Oh the Islamophobia.

Screengrab via Daily Mail

So would Muslims restrict seeing- eye dogs or dogs who provide emotional support?

For context, the tweeter is the leader of one of the key mainstream Muslim groups that supported NY Mayor Mamdani.

Screengrab via X

Social media blew up. Not in favour of Islam’s views, but standing with our dogs.

Needless to say, the Democrats were insulted by Fine’s views.

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