“The Prophet Muhammad Was A Cat Person”

Azadeh Moaveni recounts the travails of dog ownership in Iran:

Over the past fifty years, most Iranians had managed to shake off many of the conservative beliefs that had been ingrained in them for generations: the belief that music was haram (Islamically forbidden), that alcohol was “Satan’s piss,” that a woman who didn’t cover her hair lacked virtue. Dogs, however, resisted this cultural normalization.