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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_j65dimq wrote

Reply to comment by dw444 in TIL Nigeria is the third largest Guinness drinking nation, followed By the USA by exporterofgold

While some do, the Qur'an explicitly forbids drinking.

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dw444 t1_j65dyup wrote

I’m aware of that, having spent the first 2/3 of my life as a Muslim, most of it in arguably the most overtly religious, to the point of having an extremist majority, Muslim majority country on earth. Alcohol was always one phone call away, and you could get pretty much anything under the sun, whether you’re in a big city or a small town. Villagers dying or going blind from low quality moonshine was a common news story. That country was 96% Muslim.

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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_j65ev8e wrote

and Jews can also get their hands on bacon.

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dw444 t1_j65h2yy wrote

Which they regularly take advantage of. It’s almost like it’s human nature to want to engage in what’s forbidden, especially when it feels good.

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badamache t1_j65py1y wrote

Does it forbid drinking, or just excessive drinking that clouds the mind?

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Mammoth-Mud-9609 t1_j65r2zd wrote

O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants (khamr), gambling, [sacrificing on] stone altars [to other than God], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.

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Nuffsaid98 t1_j68b5v7 wrote

Christianity forbids sex before marriage. Lots of that goes on in Christian countries.

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