'Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy'

Oy. Consider this:

A postcard featuring a cute puppy sitting in a policeman’s hat advertising a Scottish police force’s new telephone number has sparked outrage from Muslims. (…) The advert has upset Muslims because dogs are considered ritually unclean and has sparked such anger that some shopkeepers in Dundee have refused to display the advert.

Now, one could say a lot of things about this story — for example: it is a frigging picture, for crying out loud. Or one could wonder what else is unclean and thus should removed from public view (bats, hyenas, it seems; pigs, of course — no more ads for bacon in public.) Islamophobia Watch spins it quite differently: they seem to rather agree that there are reasons to be upset… Whatever.