The Drama of the "Touch a Dog" Campaign

Before you go all Ga-ga on this post, expecting to see me pick a side between the internet ulamaks and the religion ignorants, be prepared for disappointment.

These are my personal opinions about the debate:

1. I love dogs. Dogs are adorable. But I don't go around wanting to randomly touch them. I have my cats for my sudden animal-touching urges. Touching whatever you want is your own choice.

2. It's just dogs. They don't spread viruses or waves that can make u any less or more faithful to your religion. That's just you. What's with all the judgements?

3. Touch a Dog. It's a campaign, an educational event with positive pre-objective - gone viral because people in this country like to make a fuss about unnecessary things. If you don't know about it, don't comment on it.

4. It's stupid for people to go "Oh... after this there's gonna be an I want to touch a pig or I want to touch a breast campaign." It's not even funny. It's just stupid.

5. You want to touch dogs? Fine. Just don't go posting pictures of it on the internet, provoking wraths. You are old enough to learn how the community would react to anything.

6. Some people are confident enough to post religious hadiths and Al-Quran clippings to prove their points. But then comes the swearing and cursing, condemning everyone, except themselves to hell. This makes all their talks rubbish and invalid.

7. I don't agree with the dog-touching propaganda. I also don't agree with everyone else being so negative and bitchy about it.

8. I don't know much about what's wrong and right in Islam. There's so many teaching that confuses me, ever since the existence of Facebook. I will keep holding on only to what my ustazah in school taught me. Also, I am an animal lover, so I will keep feeding, rescuing and loving dogs no matter what you try to tell me. I just learned to not post anything about it on Facebook.

9. I wish people would keep their negatives thoughts inside their own heads. All the commotion is making me become more and more of an introvert. People are evil. Dogs are good.

10. Screw you, keyboard warriors. Anything you say makes you sound like a 11 year old girl. A stupid, 11 year old girl.

Annoyed,
Ms Anne.