Originally Posted by Croquet

dehumanising enemy is something employed by tyrants in war. islamically the concept of rats and dogs is just not applicable because these species donot deserve a human treatment. where as even if (and this a is a big if) you are completely in the right and the opponent completely in the wrong, dehumanising is essentially wrong because it leads to war crimes, loss of rights of prisoner of war and absolute down hill trip from humanitarian rights.