Fatwah against sniffer dogs
Religious Intelligence
By: George Conger.
A prominent Muslim cleric has issued a fatwah against the use of sniffer dogs by police in Pakistan. Evidence gathered by the police using the olfactory skills of dogs was “haram”, or forbidden under Sharia law, ruled Maulana Abdul Hakim Haqqani, president of the Darul Uloom Islami Jamhuria seminary in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province.
On May 3, the Peshawar-based Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Mashriq reported that in response to a query concerning the legality of evidence found by sniffer dogs, Haqqani held that under Sharia law the use of dogs to convict men was haram. |