Islam versus Europe

Wylie, the Afghan mutt, was rescued in February by a convoy of British soldiers on patrol in a Kandahar bazaar, where a dog-fighting crowd was beating the smaller dog with lumps of wood to force the last fight out of him.

Back at Kandahar base, it was Australian Federal Police officer Narelle Jensz to whom the soldiers turned. But Wylie’s injuries were so bad Jensz judged him unlikely to last the night. Remarkably he did but his torments were far from over.

Two weeks later Jensz received another call. Local dog fighters had cut off Wylie’s ears and had scalped him in the process, before using the same homemade knife to cut his muzzle wide open from his nose to under his eye. He was patched up again by Jensz and a team of Australian Defence Force doctors only to return from his perilous forays outside the base with new injuries—a stab wound to the chest and a savagely docked tail.

Then, horrifically, one day he limped back to the camp after Kandahar locals—many of whom despise dogs only marginally less than they do coalition soldiers—had tried to sever his penis. Three times Jensz and ADF doctors had to restitch the wound.

‘Once we stitched for 90 minutes without anaesthetic,’ she said. ‘I can’t fathom how much pain he must have been in but he just lay there motionless, looking up at us. He didn’t bite or growl once.’

Wylie’s story has a happy ending: he is currently in quarantine in Britain before starting a new life in Australia. All the best, brave Wylie.

From The Australian via Andrew Bostom