It's 2026, and the last thing I thought we'd be having to do in this day and age is defend dogs.
Well, we're actually defending an elected official who defended dogs, but that's a technicality.
It all started with a Muslim activist who claimed dogs should be relegated to purely indoor pets because they're not compatible with Islam. Whether this activist has the juice to make something like this happen or not, it's probably not the smartest thing for literally anyone to say in a country that took a low-budget action movie and turned it into a major franchise, all because the good guy got revenge because the bad guy killed his dog.
John Wick, baby.
Anyway, Rep. Randy Fine of Florida basically said that if it were a choice between Muslims or dogs, it was a no-brainer.
The blowback he's gotten for this stance is impressive, but it's also idiotic.
Look, someone went on the internet and literally tried to tell us that our dogs were secondary to their religion. This is a religion that believes in the violent subjugation of anyone who isn't male, Muslim, and straight. It's not so much a religion as an ideology that uses religious trappings, and its goal is world domination. Here, many of these Islamists--and to be fair, not every Muslim is an Islamist--try to use our love for religious freedom against us by claiming anything but capitulation to their desires is Islamophobia.
Here, the take is basically that man's best friend is secondary to Islam.
Criticism of Fine's comments seems to suggest that it's somehow wrong to value your dog over Muslims who put you in the position to choose. Faced with such a decision, I'd value my tuna sandwich over those Muslims, and I absolutely despise tuna.
It wasn't Fine who set the stage here, putting our beloved pets up against someone else's religion. That was the activist in question, as well as those who agreed.
Fine simply laid out that if it comes down to a choice, they wouldn't like the answer they'd get, and that is completely true.
Look, to the Muslims out there that just try to live their lives, live their faith, and never seek to push us to make the world revolve around them, this is a non-issue. Fine wasn't saying jack about those folks.
For those who seek to turn the United States into the United Islamic States, they need to be brought up short.
There are a whole lot of people in this country who are willing to defend their dogs' lives with violence, if need be, and that's against people who aren't trying to remake America into the image of the third-world hellholes that their religion has created for generations.
If given a choice, I'll pick dogs over Islamist Muslims every day of the week, and I say that as someone who has always been a bit more of a cat person. I love dogs, but I'm a lousy dog owner.
Don't like the take that Fine, myself, and many others are expressing? Well, tough. You just found out that there's a line you'd best not cross.
If only we'd drawn that line a little sooner, we might not be discussing this particular breed of stupid.
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