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The Fishermen Saving Pakistan’s Island Dogs

The island has no food or fresh water but, in a country where many consider dogs unclean, a group of fishermen brings them what they need to stay alive.

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Fatwa on Animal Sacrifices

The Imam said that the animal sacrifice is not a must, and that one could pay a third of the value of a sheep in cash, instead to the poor and the needy.

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An Imam in Istanbul Has Opened Up His Mosque as a Warm Home to the City’s Stray Cats

Efe is well known in the city for his “good humour and diligence”, the Daily Sabah reports – but a video Efe took of a mother cat taking her kittens from the street into the safety of the mosque has given his everyday acts of compassion a global audience.

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Vegetarian Muslim: Turning Away From a Meat-Based Diet

My reasons for moving towards a plant-based diet didn’t happen overnight as some people I know.

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Animal Sacrifice or Blood Orgy?

Sacrifice inherently means that you part with something that is very close to your heart and experience a certain degree of pain during the process.

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Is There Such a Thing as ‘Halal’ Foie Gras?

As a Muslim who grew up in the Indo-Pak subcontinent, I was appalled when I read that some retailers in France have started marketing so-called “halal foie gras” to the area’s growing Muslim community. I would argue that this term is as deceptive as “halal pork” would be.

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World Animal Day Exists to Celebrate Animal Life and Humankind’s Special Relationship With the Animal

Animal Save Movement Pakistan celebrated International Animal Day on 4 October, with a fruitful gathering at which many school children, social workers, teachers, lawyers and political workers participated.

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Dogs: Face to Face With My Worst Enemy

Many Muslims, growing up in devout households, are taught that dogs are dirty and scary. So could Sarfraz Manzoor learn to love Cookie the bulldog?

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Vegetarianism Is Not Contrary to Arab Culture

When Jordanian activist Amina Tariq took to the streets of Amman clad only in lettuce leaves, she captured the attention of the media in the Middle East.

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Animal Sacrifice in Pakistan (Graphic)

What you are about to see may turn your stomach. But it is not any worse than what happens to animals on factory farms, right here in the USA.

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