<story><title>The Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn&apos;t Work, Except to Make Money</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money?google_editors_picks=true</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmorici</author><text>Something that isn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in the article but probably plays some role in the desire to believe that these things work in parts of the world where Islam is prevalent is the low stature of dogs in the religion.  Since dogs are the typical go to bomb and contraband detecting technology in the world it&amp;#x27;s easy to see why a police department in a Muslim area might find a device that can detect bombs w&amp;#x2F;o the use of a dog attractive.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029887/Muslims-searched-sniffer-dogs-despite-religious-objections-say-police.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article-1029887&amp;#x2F;Muslims-sear...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Muslims_and_sniffer_dogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Islam_and_animals#Muslims_and_s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>parfe</author><text>Fairly ignorant comment you&amp;#x27;ve got there.  What you wrote is akin to saying Jewish men won&amp;#x27;t touch unrelated women or their own adopted children because you once met an Orthodox Jew who told you about negiah (&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negiah&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Negiah&lt;/a&gt;). Also the daily mail is full of shit.&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#x27;s some Muslims getting along just fine with their bomb sniffing dogs:  &lt;a href=&quot;http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/01/as-soldiers-leave-iraq-bomb-sniffing-dogs-stay/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atwar.blogs.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;2011&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;01&amp;#x2F;as-soldiers-leave-...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happened here was a man committing outright fraud and the fact you&amp;#x27;re blaming it on the religion out of your own ignorance is pretty sad.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Bomb-Detecting Device That Didn&apos;t Work, Except to Make Money</title><url>http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money?google_editors_picks=true</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>pmorici</author><text>Something that isn&amp;#x27;t mentioned in the article but probably plays some role in the desire to believe that these things work in parts of the world where Islam is prevalent is the low stature of dogs in the religion.  Since dogs are the typical go to bomb and contraband detecting technology in the world it&amp;#x27;s easy to see why a police department in a Muslim area might find a device that can detect bombs w&amp;#x2F;o the use of a dog attractive.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029887/Muslims-searched-sniffer-dogs-despite-religious-objections-say-police.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.dailymail.co.uk&amp;#x2F;news&amp;#x2F;article-1029887&amp;#x2F;Muslims-sear...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_animals#Muslims_and_sniffer_dogs&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Islam_and_animals#Muslims_and_s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mynameishere</author><text>Pigs could probably do the job as well, but I think they are held in similar esteem.  Maybe they should train black bears or something.  Do Muslims like bears?</text></comment>