Video - Another Horrific case of Animal abuse in Egypt, Dog dragged to death behind car.

Video - Another case of Animal abuse in Egypt, Dog dragged to death behind car. (ES).

A helpless dog is tied to the car and dragged along the rough gravel of a Cairo road by an unidentified person.

Captured on film, the dog’s lifeless body is seen dragged at high speeds by the individual in an old Mercedes. 

This is the second brutal incident of animal abuse captured on film within just two weeks.

Last week, Max was the latest of many other victims of the utter ruthlessness of many in Egypt’s society against animals. While people on the street watched and some cheered on, Max was stabbed, slaughtered and then bludgeoned to death with a metal pole by three men.

However, according to article 357 in the Penal Code, a person responsible for the death of animal with no “just” cause could face up to six months in prison or a 200 LE ($US 25) fine. That’s it. That’s what an animal’s life is worth in Egypt. Let that sink in for a minute. 

Activists and non-activists joined hands in a stand of solidarity during a protest addressing violence towards animals. The protest was not only aimed to shed light into the severity of animal abuse in Egypt but the inevitable ending it leads to.

According to the American Psychiatric Association, animal cruelty is a guaranteed pathway to violence towards people – which is not a surprise to anyone living in this country, especially women.Read the full story here.

Three Arrested For Brutal Killing Of Dog In Egypt.

Three Arrested For Brutal Killing Of Dog In Egypt.(ES).

A Shubra prosecutor ordered on Thursday the detention of three men accused of killing a domesticated animal for four days pending investigations.

A video went viral late Tuesday showing three men beating a strapped dog with knives and killing him. The video is believed to have been shot at Giza’s Haram neighbourhood.

The three detainees were accused of killing the dog and possessing bladed weapons.

The detainees admitted to the prosecution they had killed the dog, accusing the dog’s owner of using it to commit crimes of theft.

They said the dog’s owner attempted to steal a shop belonging to one of them, adding that the dog bit another defendant who attempted to stop the theft.

The defendants said they agreed with the dog owner to kill the dog and in turn renounce a complaint filed against the owner accusing him of theft.

Egypt’s Penal Code stipulates that the punishment for killing a domesticated animal or “gravely harming it” is imprisonment for up to a year or a fine of no more than 200 Egyptian pounds.

Halal slaughterhouse Muslim staff investigated over alleged animal cruelty.

Halal slaughterhouse Muslim staff investigated over alleged animal cruelty. (Guardian).

Undercover video shot by an animal welfare group appearing to show the brutal treatment of sheep at a Yorkshire abattoir has rekindled the debate over whether animals need to be stunned before they are killed.

The footage gathered by campaigning group Animal Aid, shows sheep being kicked, threatened with knives and thrown into solid structures. In one case a worker appears to be seen pinning a sheep’s head down with his foot. Four slaughtermen at halal slaughterhouse, Bowood Lamb in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, have had their operating licences suspended and the company said one worker had been sacked.

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has launched an investigation into the footage, saying there is “no excuse for treating animals in the way shown on the video” and adding that prosecutions could follow.

Over three days in December, activists from Animal Aid used hidden cameras to record footage which appeared to show:

• A worker hacking and sawing at animals’ throats, in direct contravention of Islamic practice. In one instance it took up to five attempts to sever blood vessels

• Sheep being kicked in the face and head, lifted by their ears, fleeces or legs and hurled into solid structures

• A worker standing on the neck of a conscious sheep and bouncing up and down

• Staff erupting into laughter over a sheep bleeding to death with spectacles drawn around her eyes in green paint

• Employees taunting and frightening animals by waving knives, smacking them on the head and shouting at them.

The FSA said: “The Food Standards Agency takes animal welfare at abattoirs very seriously, which is why we immediately suspended the licences of the slaughtermen involved.

“There is no excuse for treating animals in the way shown on the video and we are therefore investigating the footage with a view to prosecution.” Read the full story here.

Video - Saudi Driver tortures dog by dragging it at high speed behind pickup.

A Saudi driver tied a dog to his pick-up vehicle and cruelly dragged it for a long distance at a high speed on a road in the Gulf kingdom. A brief YouTube film published by the Saudi Arabic language daily Sabq showed the dog struggle to get up and run but kept fall on its body because of the high speed.

Sabq said many viewers of the film slammed the driver, who was seen wearing the traditional Saudi head cover, and called on authorities to track him down. Hmmm.....But they will Put women on trial as terrorists for driving?

Jihadis Display 'Power of Islam' on Donkey Victims.

Jihadis Display 'Power of Islam' on Donkey Victims. HT: MiddleEastForum.by Raymond Ibrahim
FrontPage Magazine.

Very graphic videos recently appeared on Arabic-language media portraying Islamic jihadis in Syria slaughtering donkeys in order to consume them.

The main point made by some of these websites is that the jihadis are hypocrites for (again) violating Islamic law, which bans the eating of domesticated donkeys.

In the words of a fatwa, or Islamic decree, titled "Is it permissible to eat donkey meat?"

Praise be to Allaah.
It is permissible to eat the meat of onagers ("wild donkeys") and it is haraam [forbidden] to eat the meat of domesticated donkeys. The first is permitted because of the report narrated by al-Bukhaari (5492) and Muslim (1196) from Abu Qataadah (may Allaah be pleased with him) who hunted an onager and brought a piece of it to the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) and he ate some of it, and he said to his companions: "It is halaal [permissible], eat it."
With regard to domesticated donkeys, their meat was permitted at first, then the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) declared it to be haraam [forbidden] on the day of Khaybar.

Questions of wild or domesticated aside—and the donkeys do appear to be domesticated—this is yet another example of the fact that, for those waging jihad to empower Allah's word, dispensations are always available.

As discussed here, it is precisely because the strictures of Islamic law are relaxed for the jihadi—often permitting the indulgence of depraved behavior—that the jihad has always been an appealing option.

While killing animals for consumption is commonplace, what is notable about these videos is the "supremacist" demeanor of the jihadis towards the donkeys—as if the animals are also "infidels" to be treated with contempt and brutality.

Watching them slaughter the donkeys is like watching them slaughter human "infidels"—with all the triumphant theatrics.

In one video, "Allahu Akbar!" is heard while a donkey is being decapitated.
Jihadis habitually cry "Allahu Akbar" (Islam' supremacist war-cry, which literally means Allah is "greater") whenever striking down infidels—especially when ceremoniously beheading them.
But why say it while slaughtering a donkey—an animal—for consumption?

In another video, the animals are very inhumanely treated—sadistically dumped out of a truck, then struck on the head with a club, followed by decapitation—all to background laughter and snickers (reminiscent of yet another video of a donkey being set on fire, apparently "for laughs," in some Arab nation, possibly Algeria.)

Again, why is the act of slaughtering an animal for consumption videotaped and disseminated on the Internet in the first place—and sensationalized as if it were an infidel enemy, not a dumb animal, that was being "overcome"?

Upon further reflection, one begins to realize that the jihadis are not treating the donkeys like infidels, but rather that, because non-Muslims are often seen as subhuman on a par with animals—Islam's prophet reportedly said that women are like horses, "for all are ridden"—it is the infidels who are being treated as animals.

As for the sadistic abuse of animals—full of supremacism and power displays—that's apparently standard, as suggested by this December 2013 report:

Shocking footage of cattle exported from Australia being tortured and killed in the streets of Gaza is being described by an Australian animal rights group as the worst animal cruelty case it has ever seen in the live export industry, The West Australian news reported Thursday. Footage compiled by Animals Australia shows bulls being "knee-capped by a man armed with an assault rifle, another stabbed in the eye and other[s] having their throats hacked open in the streets."… "So acceptable is this brutal treatment to locals that they are cheering and filming the spectacle on mobile phones," Animals Australia campaign director Lyn White said (emphasis added).

Raymond Ibrahim, author of Crucified Again: Exposing Islam's New War on Christians (Regnery, April, 2013) is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center and an Associate Fellow at the Middle East Forum.

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The "mysterious" death of three American black bears at Giza Zoo.

The "mysterious" death of three American black bears at Giza Zoo. HT : Occupy for Animals.

The three American black bears Farah, Lulu and Nabila, died at Giza zoo during the night from Saturday, 5th of May, 2013.

According to the official statement released by Gizaa zoo, the three bears mauled each other to death as they fought over a male partner. Apparently, workers and veterinarians tried to separate them, but all three bears end up dying after an hours-long battle that lasted from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until midnight. "Their fighting has lead to their death as a result of their fractures of their necks, (!?) said the official statement from Giza zoo.

While it was not immediately clear under which circumstances, this tragic accident could have happened, it was clear - after the release of this rather confusing statement and those that followed - that the management of Giza zoo had something to cover up.

In the two days following the death of Farah, Lulu and Nabila, a number of inconsistencies have emerged raising questions as to the true circumstances of the three unfortunate grizzly bears' tragic death:

- Three bears maul each other to death - all end up dead. No-one survives. Isn't that very strange?

- The pathology report revealed: break in neck, lower jaw, break in the chest bones, break in spinal cord. Such injuries cannot be sustained through a (bear) fight!

- The pathology was done in THE ZOO, not in the national pathology laboratory in the National Institute for Animal Health, which casts some doubt on the results... The bodies of the 3 bears have been buried quickly behind the donkeys' enclosure.

- Apparently, the females fought over a male, but according to reports, there was no male in the enclosure

- Witnesses have also reported that the bears were vomiting the day before the accident

- Apparently, according to another of their own statements, the zoo keepers had tried to separate them using water hoses but that only lasted a while so they went back at each other again. They said the vet was called in and that he shot them with tranquilizers. But as they were kicking in, a crowd had gathered around the bears enclosure - the bears panicked and tried to climb up the enclosure and fell off. Their statement made after the pathology says the bears died from multiple fractures due to the fall... A crowd gathered at the bears enclosure on a Saturday night? At midnight?

- Also, we have never heard that females were fighting over a male! Even Dr. Osama Salim - Chairman of the General Authority for Veterinary Services, said in a statement that "spring is the mating season for wild animals, stressing that the quarrel between wild animals is always among males, stressing that what happened at the zoo is worth studying...." (see video on our website)

- and according to this same interview, not only these 3 female bears died but also two other bears have been injured in another enclosure (see video at minute 6:20)

THE TRUE STORY...

Two days after the death of the bears, a witness reported that, in preparation for the sham el nessem (the Easter holiday during which more than 70,000 people are excepted to visit the zoo) the bears where given a tranquilizer to keep them calm during the day. The witness, that wanted to remain anonymous, said that the bears were given an overdose.

This story was confirmed later by the newspaper Al-Watan. The three bears died because of a sedative overdose, leading to two falling over and breaking several bones, while the remaining one drowned.

The incident is currently being investigated and a new pathology is being done. We will update our website with more details as soon as Dina has informed us about the outcome...

In her article "Calling all animal activists" from 11th of May, 2013, published in Daily News Egypt, Sara Abou Bakr, sums the entire situation in the seven Egyptian governmental zoos brilliantly up, and calls on all animal activists in every country to help our Egyptian friends close down these hell-holes and find an alternative for the suffering animals.

CALLING ALL ANIMAL ACTIVISTS

by Sara Abou Bakr - May 11, 2013 - Six days ago, three grizzly bears died at Giza Zoo.

Reports on the news stated that the three female bears were fighting over a male.

Thus ensued a slew of jokes about the prowess of the male bear, though how someone can find such negligence- on the part of the zoo- hilarious escapes me.

Two days later, the Al-Watan newspaper broke the story; the three bears died because of a sedative overdose, leading to two falling over and breaking several bones, while the remaining one drowned.

A photo of a starving lioness at Alexandria Zoo ignited anger last August, gaining international scrutiny from animal activists. The zoo manager assured them the case was under control. A day later, the lioness died.

In November 2011, a lioness cub was rescued from an enclosure in the Red Sea and placed in Giza Zoo, which is supposed to act as a rescue centre if necessary. Mimi the cub was given to the zoo and several well-meaning animal lovers donated blankets, toys and their time to help her transition. Mimi died a month later.

Similar stories of the negligence of the seven governmental zoos in Egypt can be easily dug up (http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2012/09/18/your-zoo-is-a-prison/). One only has to walk through one of them to see the abuse; malnourished lions, hippos swimming in filthy ponds, wild dogs injured and left untreated, seals that perform tricks on command, brown bears spoon-fed and petted by visitors

You do not have to be a specialist to see the abuse first-hand.

Giza Zoo, because it is located in the capital, gets the lion’s share of media attention, followed by Alexandria Zoo. The conditions of the other governmental zoos in Beni Suef, Fayoum, Kafr El-Sheikh, Mansoura, and Tanta are even worse. Puny and injured animals suffering from malnourishment is a major concern.

One of the worst kinds of exploitation of wild animals in Egyptian zoos is what is commonly known as a “photo session”. You pay EGP 20 and you can have your photo taken with your choice of wild baby animals- lion cubs, peacocks, monkeys, and more.

Parents flock to the photo sessions, wanting to appease their children’s desire for a photo with a lion cub. It does not matter that human-animal contact is dangerous because of the transfer of viruses which can lead to the animal’s death and at times, the human’s infection. Nor does it matter that teaching children such behaviour only reinforces the concept of treating animals as toys. What matters is making money.

The zoo keepers are given very low monthly salaries, around EGP 200. To make ends meet, they depend on tips from visitors who, in turn, require tricks from the animals. The keepers have to care about the animals because they are their livelihoods. Unlike zoo keepers aboard, they are not given any awareness or animal behaviour courses. Most of them gain experience on the job. Some have had their job for over 20 years; their responsibility, according to one keeper, is to “keep the animal alive”. If the animal dies, the keeper takes the fall even if there is administrative negligence. Thus it is a vicious cycle of covering negligence instead of fixing the problem.

The General Organisation of Veterinary Services (GOVS) headed by Osama Selim supervises all four animal-related sectors: public zoos, veterinarian quarantine, veterinarian preventive medicine, and slaughterhouses. Selim happens to be the head of the veterinary services as well, while Fatma Tamam is Giza Zoo director and head of the public zoos!

The duality of positions means that complaints fall into a vicious cycle; if an animal dies at Giza Zoo, a complaint is then filed to the zoo director, who is Tamam. All complaints against the zoo are handed to the head of the public zoos- Tamam- too. Complaints filed with the Environment Police are also handed to Tamam for investigation!

In a country where people can barely make ends meet, animals do not rank high on the important issues list.

So why keep zoos functional?

Money!

The money made out of yearly visitors is reported in the millions (the actual budget remains a top secret issue so far). Egyptians, who are quite poor, find that zoos are their only possible outing because of the low-priced tickets, particularly during holidays. Of course, the huge numbers of visitors, animals suffer a different kind of maltreatment; visitors agitate them and some even throw hot drinks on them to “get a reaction”. Last week, during the Easter holiday, children were filmed shooting at the antelopes with a BB gun!

To have a zoo is a responsibility. Animals cannot talk or express their pain, and so if one is not up to such a responsibility, it should be given up.

Activists have started an online petition to close down all seven governmental zoos, calling them “hellholes for animals” (http://www.change.org/petitions/egypt-close-down-all-7-governmental-zoos-that-are-nothing-less-than-hell-holes?utm_campaign=signature_receipt&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition).

Until Egypt can step up to its responsibilities, we call upon all animal activists in every country to help us close down these hell-holes and find an alternative for these suffering animals.

“Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.”

Mark Twain

Pictures of these hell-holes are compiled at: http://www.occupyforanimals.org/egypts-zoos--hell-holes-for-animals.html

Videos regarding the death of the three bears are compiled at: http://www.occupyforanimals.org/egypt--the-mysterious-death-of-three-american-black-bears-at-giza-zoo.html

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HOW YOU CAN HELP

1. Please sign & share the following petitions:

a) http://www.change.org/petitions/egypt-close-down-all-7-governmental-zoos-that-are-nothing-less-than-hell-holes

b) http://www.change.org/petitions/please-don-t-let-the-animals-suffer-in-your-zoos

c) http://www.thepetitionsite.com/786/840/821/rescue-animals-in-eygpt-zoos/

2. Please join the FB-group "Mimi's War" if you like to actively help:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/mimiswar/?ref=ts&fref=ts

3. Share this information with as many as you can!

4. Leave a comment regarding the shameful treatment of animals in Egypt's seven governmental zoos at the Facebook-page of Egypt's president, Dr. Mohamed Morsy at: https://www.facebook.com/Egypt.President.Morsi

The Australian livestock sector suspended exports to Egypt after receiving a complaint of animal cruelty.

The Australian livestock sector suspended exports to Egypt after receiving a complaint of animal cruelty.(Smh).The Australian livestock sector is again reeling after the emergence of new footage showing extreme cattle cruelty in Egyptian abattoirs.

The abuse occurred in the same Egyptian slaughterhouses the Australian industry has previously described as “state of the art”.

Exports of Australian livestock to Egypt have been suspended following the release of the footage by animal welfare group Animals Australia.

The group has handed the graphic evidence to the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, which subsequently released a statement confirming it had received a complaint of animal cruelty.

“The department has already consulted with the Egyptian authorities and has formally requested an investigation in line with the Memorandum of Understanding on the Handling and Slaughter of Australian Live Animals between our two countries,” the statement said.

Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig has promised the investigation and said Egyptian authorities were being co-operative.

But the Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council has voluntarily suspended exports to Egypt, saying the abuse took place at two abattoirs.

Chief executive Alison Penfold said no Australian animals would be going into the Egyptian slaughterhouses until proper standards are met.

“I feel distraught. These acts are horrific. The outrageous cruelty has left me and my industry colleagues disgusted and horrified,” she said.

“No one in our industry, and no Australian, accepts such treatment of animals, and I believe the Egyptian authorities will not tolerate this.”

One incident was videoed in October last year and another in April this year.

The first video shows a vicious and clumsy slaughter of an injured animal. The other footage reveals cruel and shocking practices throughout the slaughtering process.

The footage has not yet been released publicly.

About 3000 Australian cattle remain in Egyptian feedlots where they are waiting to be processed.

The live trade was previously suspended with Egypt in 2006, following footage being released then showing cattle having their tendons slashed before slaughter.

Exports to Egypt resumed four years later and Australian live export industry has since repeatedly assured the public that standards have improved there.

Live cattle trade to Indonesia was briefly suspended in 2011 following public outcry in response to a Four Corners’ expose of slaughterhouse cruelty there.

Live exports were again under the spotlight late last year after shipload of sheep were rejected then subjected to cruelty in Pakistan.

The latest incident has renewed calls for a ban of all live exports.

“This latest evidence of brutality in the slaughter of Australian cattle in two Egyptian abattoirs, obtained by Animals Australia, is the last straw,” Greens senator Lee Rhiannon said.

“Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig should move to quickly transition away from live exports and establish an overdue independent Office of Animal Welfare.”Read the full story here.

Anger rising over new case of Indonesian cattle mistreatment.

Anger rising over new case of Indonesian cattle mistreatment.(AN).Animal rights activists on Monday denounced “cruel” treatment of cattle in Indonesia after pictures emerged of cows on their way to market being lifted by a crane from ropes tied to their heads.
In the latest pictures, taken by an AFP photographer, a crane is shown transferring three bony cows from a boat in the eastern Javanese city of Surabaya using a loop of rope around their skulls.
It is another blow to the country’s reputation for dealing with livestock following international criticism in 2011 when Australian TV aired footage of Indonesian abattoir workers torturing cows shipped from Australia.
Another photograph shows seven live cows being lifted in a similar fashion in one group, with their necks painfully outstretched.
The boat transporting the cattle had come from Sumbawa island, around 500 kilometres east of Surabaya, but it was not clear whether this was where the cattle had been reared.
While a large number of cattle are transported around Indonesia, an archipelago of more than 17,000 islands, it is not normal practice to lift animals up by their heads.
“It is crazy that cruel practices are still happening,” Jakarta Animal Aid Network campaigner Benvika told AFP.
Indonesian Veterinary Association chairwoman Wiwiek Bagja said animal welfare laws in effect since 2009 did not work as they did not actually lay out what punishments people should face for animal cruelty.
“In short, Indonesia is very far from implementing and enforcing the law,” Ms Bagja said.
In the 2011 scandal, the video of cows dying slow and painful deaths, having their eyes gouged, tails broken and throats hacked, prompted the Australian government to suspend its exports to Indonesia for a month.Read the full story here.