Comments on: Muslim Group Supports Student’s Right to Service Dog

By: Student Leaves School After Classmate Threatens to Kill Service Dog - Saydrah

Student Leaves School After Classmate Threatens to Kill Service Dog - Saydrah — Wed, 21 May 2008 23:00:17 +0000

[...] Engage Minnesota, a blog calling itself "a voice for Minnesotan Muslims" notes that many Muslims use service and guide dogs themselves. According to Engage Minnesota, touching the saliva of dogs invalidates ritual cleansing prior to [...]

By: Tamim

Tamim — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:21:21 +0000

Thank you for the great article.
As an immigrant, before moving to MN, they only contact I had with dogs were with astray, rabid street dogs. I can still vividly remember the numerous times that I was chased by theses dogs as a kid. I think most immigrants have similar experience. For most us, it takes us a while, or perhaps years, to realize that in America, people’s dogs are like their family members. At the least they should be respected.

A hadith, saying, of Prophet Muhammad (p) makes it clear that all sins of a prostitue was forgiven because of her unusual kindness to a stray dog.

I wish I could find a stray animal through which all of my sins could be forgiven.

By: » minnesota muzzies at it again! online rihla

» minnesota muzzies at it again! online rihla — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:14:52 +0000

[...] I didn’t have to go on a tirade against the local community’s innaction. CAIR-MN beat me to the punch. However, “the moral and legal need to accommodate individuals using service dogs far outweighs [...]

By: Muslim Group Supports Student’s Right to Service Dog « Engage Minnesota « Ginny’s Thoughts & Things

Wed, 14 May 2008 23:33:39 +0000

[...] Issues, CAIR Minnesota, Muslim Issues, Muslims and Dog Guides) Assalamu alaikum, I found this in my “incoming links” section of my blog stats [...]

By: Ginny

Ginny — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:37:23 +0000

Greetings and assalamu alaikum, I just wanted to thank you for linking to my article. Will link back to yours as soon as I get home from work and thus have more time to blog about it. As a Muslim who uses a dog guide, this issue of Muslims accommodating blind people who choose to use dog guides is very dear to me and I feel very strongly about it.

Inshallah (God willing) you and your family are well.