Dog Balls

Rover wants his balls back:

US dog lovers are paying £200 on prosthetic testicles for their castrated pets.

"What I find is the vast majority (of customers) are men.

"I can only think of one woman who has come to me to have the procedure on her pet. She was an animal control officer whose husband, because of his religious beliefs, did not want the dog to be neutered...

What sort of wacky, stupid religion... Oh. Right.

Islam.

To be perfectly fair, however, what Mohammad (and later authors of the Koran) was trying to do was prevent the deliberate mutilation and torture of animals for entertainment and food purposes:

"Cutting of camel’s juicy humps and fatty tails of rams for food while these animals were still alive was forbidden" (At-Tirmidhi). This was a usual practice in Madinah at the time of the arrival of the Prophet. "He condemned those who mutilate any part of an animal’s body while it is alive" (Ahmad). He also forbade the pre-Islamic practice of cutting the tails and manes of horses. The Prophet forbade the beating of an animal that is branded on the face and said, "May God condemn the one who branded it" (Muslim). When passing by a camel that was so emaciated that its back had shrunk to its belly, the Prophet said, "Fear God in these beasts; ride them in good health" (Abu Dawud) "No one but God has the right to inflict the treatment of fire on a creature" (Abu Dawud).

Quite noble goals, obviously. Of course, the idiots who follow the religion don't possess enough brain cells to reach the critical mass required for sentience. Consequently, and as with pretty much everything else in modern Islam, they have misinterpreted the text to mean that one may not spay and neuter animals in order to prevent overpopulation -- and thus increased suffering -- of domestic pets.

It is, however, apparently quite acceptable under Islamic "law" to beat, rape and murder women. After all, they've got it coming, right?