Dogs and my traditionalist father
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Well, my dad left for a year and a half and came back a month ago. In his absence my mother bought a dog for my brothers since she had to work most of the time and they were alone. Now my dad comes back and he's been saying that the dog is dirty and now the house is dirty...like we can't pray in it and stuff.
Well let's see...I've never seen my dad pray in his house my entire life unless a guest wanted to pray. My dad goes out to drink at bars every Friday and Saturday night. Also, I am pretty sure he has cheated on my mother more than a few times.
Now he is complaining that the house is "dirty" because of the dog. He says dogs are nice creatures but Islam says they are not clean.
I have just been ignoring him when he starts complaining about the dog because I don't want to get into an argument with him. My parent's are divorcing and he's letting my brothers stay with my mother but if I start arguing with him and he percieves that I am not a "muslim" or i am "anti-islam" he might change his mind and try to take my brothers with him back to the middle-east.
(Now, I have no problem with the middle-east but I think at this point in life for my brothers it's better if they just continue their education here where their friends are and stuff. They are 8 and 11.)