"Find other ways of protecting your furniture"

"Declawing a cat is a form of harming, oppressing and depriving it from [sic] its rights," according to Islam Online. Babe is not amused.

"I'm with the mullahs on this one," writes blog buddy Jack Henneman of TigerHawk, citing the latest fatwah on the de-clawing of cats from the "Dear Mufti" column at Islam Online:

Question: Is it haram (prohibited) to declaw a young cat to protect the furniture?

Answer: Islam also calls upon Muslims to be gentle and nice to everything and at all times even when they want to slaughter animals.

In this context, declawing a cat is a form of harming, oppressing and depriving it from its rights of having claws, which it needs not to scratch your furniture but to scratch and defend itself.

Therefore, you should let your cat grow its claws and find other ways of protecting your furniture other than hurting or harming innocent and friendly animals like cats.

Of course Tiny and Baby -- flexing their claws -- could have told you that without all the pomp and circumstance of a fatwah.

Update:  Thanks, Jack, for your most generous gift to Sissy's Sewing Circle.  As we always say, look to the animals.  Begging works!!!

Comments

[Laurence Simon]

How do they feel about Jewish cats?

[Sissy Willis]

"If you play with a cat, you must not mind her scratch."
-- Yiddish Proverb

"One should not send a cat to deliver cream"
-- Yiddish saying

[Sissy Willis]

In-fur-dels, you mean?

[Betul]

Laurence Islam feels the same about Jewish, Hindu or Shintoist cats the way it feels about Muslim cats. When you hear something good said about a people please do not try to undermine it by cynical comments like this.