House of Al Saud HATES CATS.

[Bolo Boffin]

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/14738358/ns/health-pet_health/t/cats-dogs-banned-saudi-religious-police/

The prohibition on dogs may be less of a surprise, since conservative Muslims despise dogs as unclean. But the cat ban befuddled many, since Islamic tradition holds that the Prophet Muhammad loved cats — and even let a cat drink from his ablutions water before washing himself for prayers.

The religious police, known as the Muttawa, have the role of enforcing Saudi Arabia’s strict Islamic code. Its members prowl streets and malls, ensuring unmarried men and women do not mix, confronting women they feel are not properly covered or urging men to go to prayers.

And now we know, cracking down on kitties.

Viva la Assad! Obamabot out!

[silverweb]

1. Ironic.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]They ban pets we (aka "the West&quot are known to love because we love them (even though their Prophet loved cats, too), at the very same time they're urging us to wage war on their enemies in Syria.

"The police have issued a decree banning the sale of the pets, seen as a sign of Western influence."

That really takes some gall, doesn't it?

[eridani]

2. Well, let's not tell them about SalmonChantedEvening's Sunday LOLcats n/t

[Bolo Boffin]

3. La Resistance lives on!

[eridani]

4. Good!

[Ellipsis]

6. hhhhhhaaaaaaahaaha

ouï

[Chan790]

7. Yes.

(The House of Saud is no match for the cats of the internet.)

[silverweb]

5. Are you kidding?

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Let's rub it in their faces!

I'm really offended by their disdainful arrogance and will go out of my way to highlight it.

They want us to fight their wars, while they ban their own people from enjoying pets because we love them, which makes them a bad influence.

How outrageously arrogant.

[TexasTowelie]

8. And Allah will Shiite in his thobe

if they see any of my catnip threads.

[blogslut]

9. I hope they like rats.

[xfundy]

10. Clearly, we must send them cats

Cats and rats, dogs, ferrets, cats, rats, bats! They want to pay for a war? Let them send their children to fight it.

In short, fuck them.

And send cats.

[jakeXT]

11. We got 'em

[reformist2]

12. Let them *try* to ban cat videos... they'll have to shut down the internet!

[Douglas Carpenter]

13. I remember my very first night in Saudi Arabia in 1986 in Jiddah - there were cats everywhere

and most of them were very skinny. This really stood out to me. Cat overpopulation is pandemic throughout Saudi and a lot of the Middle East. I never heard of it as a religious issue though.