Are street cats in Islamic countries less afraid of people?

You are going to need to specify what other countries we would be comparing to. I was in Argentina and the street cats are very friendly and also when I was in Thailand the street cats were very friendly. Neither of those countries are Islamic. Thailand is mostly Buddhist and I don’t know if Argentina has a majority religion. read more

Some people are mistaken into thinking that we must keep cats. Things which we must do are those things which we have been ordered to do by Allah or his prophet peace be upon him. We have not been ordered to keep cats but we are allowed to keep cats and if we do keep cats as pets then it becomes compulsory on us to make sure they do not go hungry. read more

This leads me to the conjecture that cultivating awareness of whom we are afraid, and why, and recognizing the absurdity of our fear when it gets out of balance (which is different from pragmatic caution in certain situations) -- all can bring us to a certain equanimity which, in turn, can lead us to deeper compassion for those who may be afraid of us, for those of whom we are afraid and even for those aspects of ourselves of which we are afraid. read more