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Tayside is in Scotland, and its police put out an advertisement for a new telephone number, attracting attention by showing a police cap with a German Shepherd puppy sitting on it. Mohammed Asif is a city official and a member of the Tayside Joint Police Board as well. He took it on himself to complain that this supposedly jolly poster was causing outrage to Muslims, on the grounds that Islamic injunctions warn them against contact with dogs, regarded as "unclean." A spokesman quickly apologized for the fact that the police had not sought "advice from the force's diversity adviser." The issue became national. The Association of ...