This is a glimpse into Britain’s future. These new Muslim owners are forbidden by Islamic law to sell alcohol, although that law is widely ignored. This is the inherent supremacism of Sharia: it isn’t enough for Muslims to opt not to drink alcohol; no one else must be allowed to do so, either.
“Petrol station firm owned by Muslim family bans alcohol from shop shelves ‘because it is not ethical to sell drink to people who are driving,'” by Sean Poulter, Daily Mail, January 23, 2016:
Hundreds of petrol station shops are removing alcohol from sale after being taken over by a Muslim-owned company.
The outlets are part of the fast growing Euro Garages, which has 350 petrol stations across the country.
The business is worth £1.3billion and has embarked on an aggressive expansion plan which involves buying petrol stations previously run by the likes of BP, Esso and Shell.
The new owners, who are one of Britain’s most successful Muslim families, have subsequently taken out displays selling wine, beer and spirits.
There have been suggestions the ban was imposed for religious reasons, however the company said it did not think it was ethical to sell drink to people who are driving.
There was an outcry three years ago when the government changed the rules to allow motorway service stations to open their own pubs.
The move was condemned by organisations campaigning against drink driving and health experts.
Euro Garages has a partnership with a several household name brands, including Spar, Greggs, Burger King, Subway and Starbucks.
It was founded by brothers, Zuber Issa and Mohsin Issa in 2001 with a single petrol filling station in Bury, Greater Manchester.
The decision to ban drink from the outlets is inevitably costing the family a considerable amount in terms of sales and profit, however it has not stalled their success.
The Issa brothers from Blackburn, who are the sons of immigrants, have built a hugely profitable business.
Just 15 years ago they were working in a petrol station in Halifax, doing the stock-taking and cleaning the toilets among other things.
They took a lease on a local garage with their combined savings of £5,000 and today they control a business with an estimated value of some £1.3billion….

Muhammad Bear says
Islam is the only reason that I drink …
Tom says
Serious question: how are we going to combat this social problem?
Please don’t respond with nonsense. Now is the time to come up with rational solutions to this social cancer.
Put on your thinking caps and start posting intelligent methods to curb Islam.
Wakeup says
Just don’t buy from them.
Sp says
basically. that’s how you end this cancer. stop feeding it money. too bad most people don’t care or just aren’t aware of what’s going on. so they’ll keep using the same stores…
RichardL says
that might work in the US but in Europe it is way too late for that: Mohammedans buying from Mohammedans is enough to keep all Mohammedan businesses profitable.
But: naturally the UK is a special case. It is the only country where it is truly too late to start resistance. They will have a civil war or become Mohammedan. Maybe Belgium is a almost as bad as the UK.
JBubs says
Yep. Besides, other convenience stores that sell alcohol will simply assume that profit.
mortimer says
Wakeup says: boycott them. That’s one way, but everyone must do it. One thing everyone can do is to look the Muslims in the eye and make them feel self-conscious about what they are doing. Ask a Muslim, ‘Am I a Kafir?’ That is one of the most difficult questions for them. Tell Muslims in the full get up: ‘We have observed you.’ That will make them wonder if they’re being watched by security services, but also realize we have ‘seen’ what they are up to. Tell Muslims, ‘We read your books.’ Tell Muslims, ‘There’s no excuse for you following this backwardness…it’s nuts.’
We have to reach Muslims personally to get them out, but without animus. They are prisoners of fear.
Infidela says
No, as I wrote in another article, Islam is the most INSTENSELY INDOCTRINATING idelogy of all the religions in the world. There is no other religion that is so INTENSELY INDOCTRINATING as Islam Though not impossible, it is very difficult to get out.
Don McKellar says
You’ve already got the answer to your question, Tom. You’re on Jihad Watch. It’s all about the honest education of the public about Islam — which is the exact opposite of what you get on Mainstream Media. Education about Islam and what’s going on and what is actually in those Islamic texts is the rational solution to this social cancer. It’s as simple (and difficult, thanks to mainstream media) as that. So, Tom, your job is to promote Jihad Watch wherever you can, and to offer inescapable arguments and facts across the internet on social forums and web boards wherever you can if you are so inclined. Sure, you’ll get banned here and there, but keep it factual and polite and don’t let the left-fascists and the Islamic supremacists undercover drag you down to their level, and you will win your case. I often do.
mortimer says
Solutions? Everyone must be involved. We all need to challenge Muslims. All the information about Islam’s falseness is available on the internet.
They have no excuse for adhering to this vile, misogynistic Death Cult.
We all have a role to play in drawing Muslims out of Islam. Muslims are already aware of what’s wrong with Islam:
1 No Golden Rule 2 No free speech 3 No democracy 4 Jihad – holy war of world conquest 5 Honour killings 6 Taqiyya – sacred lying 7 Taqlid – group think 8 Misogyny – repression of women 9 Rape of kafirs as jihad prizes 10 Genocide 11 Ethnic cleansing 12 Anti-Semitism 13 Al-Walaa wal-Baraa – Islamic apartheid 14 Torture 15 Plundering 16 Cruel and unusual punishments 17 Backwardness – stagnation 18 Violence against women 19 Slavery 20 Discriminatory Sharia law 21 Hatred of the arts 22 Pedophilia disguised as child marriage 23 Fifty generations of cousin marriage and genetic defects 24 Cruelty to animals 25 Extortion tax to humiliate disbelievers 26 No historic basis 27 Anti-intellectual obscurantism 28 FGM 29 Arab racism 30 Theocratic totalitarianism 31 Vigilantism 32 Supremacism
billybob says
I’m sorry but I just don’t see a problem here. It is evil to sell alcohol to drivers. We don’t allow that in my country. Recently, I noted that in Brazil they finally managed to pass a law prohibiting sales of alcohol at gas stations along the highways. Driving under the influence is a great problem in Brazil. It is truly unethical to sell alcohol to drivers. Furthermore, this story is about Muslims who started up doing work most would find beneath them and working hard and achieving success. They obviously didn’t become successful by spending all their time at the mosque or doing their prayers.
By the way, I certainly enjoy my beer on a Friday night, but when I go out to the pub, I leave my car at home.
TheRemorselessHeadsman says
So, Billy Bob, I have to assume that to obtain the beer you enjoy drinking on Friday you WALKED to and from the store? After all, isn’t it irresponsible to sell alcohol to anyone DRIVING?
billybob says
I walked to the neighbourhood pub.
gravenimage says
billybob, you seem to be unaware that driving drunk is illegal in the UK. Alcohol wasn’t sold in these convenience stores for consumption on the road, any more than it is when sold in supermarkets or wine shops.
These Muslims are not concerned with drunk driving–just with imposing Islamic norms on the West.
Jack says
Don’t do business with any Muslims, inform as many people as you can about this Fascist Ideology called Islam whose sole aim is a World Caliphate. They are very political and have many well financed alphabet organizations in America and their people in these organizations know how to court our Traitorous politicians to do their will. 15 years ago I was warning people about Stealth Jihad going on and look how far they have advanced, most Westerners believe there are only Violent Jihadists. There is also Hijrah which is Immigration Jihad Muhammad practiced and taught this form of Jihad, this seems to be happening in some countries in Europe where the majority of the immigrants are, Single, Military Age Males.
gravenimage says
UK: Muslim-owned gas station convenience store chain stops selling alcohol
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This has *nothing* to do with drinking and driving, which is *already* illegal in the UK. Instead, it is about “Islamoforming” Britain and the rest of the West.
Infidela says
I have a lefty liberal friend who thinks that Islamic terrorists aren’t really muslims but criminals who are using Islam as a cover for their criminal activities. He really does believe that Islam is a religion of peace. But he does enjoy a drink. I’m waiting to see the look on his face when I tell him that a muslim own petrol business is no longer serving alcohol from it’s shops. Will he get a shock.
It’s stuff like this which will turn lefty liberals away from defending Islam.
Bonnie Prince Charlie says
Don’t be silly. Your lefty liberal friend will find an excuse for this behaviour eg every shop owner should be free to decide what products to stock.
Another fed up Brit says
Just remind your leftist freind that even without ISIS. The Muslim ppl ( sheits & sunnys ) are killing each other & have been in a fued for a thousand years
Bonnie Prince Charlie says
AND they’ve been doing it without alcohol!!!!!
Neil Jennison says
Much as i agree with so much of what JS says………occasionally I have to disagree.
If a Muslim owned company decides not to sell alcohol……that is for them and they will take the commercial consequences.
I would be a total hypocrite if I defended the Northern Irish cake shop owner (which I did, strongly) who was taken to court for refusing to make a same sex wedding cake.
Everyone, in a free country, has the right (or should have) to their views.
Foolster41 says
I agree with you that i disagree with JW this time.
There have been many cases however of Muslims forcing kuffir-owned businesses to conform to Islamic law (and rightly reported about here on JW) and that should and must be our focus.
Muhammad Bear says
I agree that it is entirely up to the business what owner what and to whom they wish to sell their product.
However, we are just as entitled to spread the message and boycott their business.
Keith says
Quite right Muhammad Bear, it is up to the owner of the stoare as to what they do or do not sell. I must admit I do find this particular article difficult for the following reason
If I went to a Jewish shop and couldn’t buy pork or ham or a Hindu shop and found I couldn’t buy any beef would I complain and make a big fuss of it of course not. So by rights a muslim owned shop should be able to refuse to sell pork and alcohol without patrons complaining.
Having said that I know that at the same time Jews and Hindus are not trying to enforce their religion and culture onto everyone else with the threat of death for not conforming to what they want. Where as muslims, as has been pointed out in other comments and articles too numerous to mention, are continually trying to enforce their religion/culture onto everyone they come into contact with, especially those whom employ or work with them.
Tom says
I completely agree. If they don’t sell alcohol, shop elsewhere for your alcohol. The problem I did have was in a Minnesota I believe, where Muslim cab drivers were refusing to transport fares that got off of planes with alcohol. That little temper tantrum got them in the pocket book and they soon amended their evil ways.
Infidela says
No you’re wrong. MUSLIMS ARE CHANGING ARE CULTURE. That’s why I’m in this fight.
Infidela says
our culture.
Infidela says
Their is no such thing as a christian business or a muslim business. Just christian or muslim business owners.
Tom says
You are right on the money. This is the same as guns don’t kill people; only people can kill other people with a gun! Join the NRA today..we need some sense injected into society.
Carolyne says
As much as I hate Islam and Muslims, and I do, I think a person has a right to sell or not sell something in his own store. I would be furious if Muslims tried to force non-Muslims to sell or not sell something, but this is a different thing entirely.
The question about how one obtains alcohol if they do not drive to get it is a non-sequitor. Having an open container of alcohol in your car is illegal in most states. You wait until you get home to drink it.
gravenimage says
Neil, Foolster, Muhammad Bear, Keith, Tom, and Carolyne, no one here is saying that Muslims cannot refuse to sell whatever they want in their shops.
Instead, Robert Spencer is pointing out that Muslims are intent on imposing Islamic norms on us.
And remember that this used to be an Infidel business before it was taken over by Mohammedans. Any Kuffar considering selling out to Muslims should keep this in mind.
Veritas says
Don’t worry, the counter-terrorism experts will soon uncover any suspicious activity.
The Telegraph:
The father of a 10-year-old Muslim boy who was visited by police after he wrote “terrorist house” – instead of “terraced house” during a school lesson has branded it a “joke”.
Police called at his home in Accrington, Lancashire, the following day and examined the family laptop, according to the BBC.
Speaking exclusively to The Telegraph through one of his sons, who acted as translator, the boy’s father said: “He [the 10-year-old boy] came from school very sick. When he came back the police arrived and said that the school said the he had been involved in terrorist activity.
The incident happened during an English lesson last month. Teachers have been obliged to report any suspicious activity ever since the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act became law last year.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12109399/Father-of-Muslim-boy-10-questioned-by-police-for-saying-he-lived-in-terrorist-house-brands-it-a-joke.html?ref=yfp
Those cunning Islamists. No doubt compensation is setting in. Might have been worse if he’d take a home-made clock in with him.
Keith says
I read that article I have noticed that the Telegraph are very choosy about which articles they allow comments on. The problemf with the “its a joke/spelling error response” is that all too often children pick up on what is going on at home and often let it slip at some inconvenient time for mum and dad. That is a just as much possibility in this case as anything else.
Dante says
According to the story, the owners are capitalists who made it without handouts. They own the company, if they don’t want to sell alcohol, it is their business. Chik-fil-A is a Christian owned company. They are closed on Sundays because it’s the sabbath. It’s their decision.
Golem2 says
Pretty much says it all. No different than Drug Stores not selling Cigarrettes or Tobacco.
mortimer says
BOYCOTT! That’s what the spineless British people have to do. Stop being nice a refuse to enter a Sharia-compliant store. Put them out of business by taking your business elsewhere.
ClaraC says
Subway in the UK don’t sell ham or bacon sandwiches any longer.
harbidoll says
Mistake, once the brits get sober- they will be formidable in battle. This will awake them, for their drink if nothing else>)
billybob says
Let them drink tea!
Brent says
They own the business so unless some agreement with outside vendors requires them to sell certain items they are free to sell whatever they wish. If they choose not to sell alcohol, that is their privilege. Compelling them to do otherwise would violate the very freedom that we are so upset with Islam violating. Sorry, but no moral outrage is justified here.
Mark says
Pease view share and give a thumbs up to the following documentary. https://youtu.be/t_Qpy0mXg8Y. It really exposes the trechery of Islam. The west needs to have more children. In the west raising children has become an expensive and time consuming hobby. Children used to add to the familys income.
Tommo says
Who would want to buy alcohol from a Muslim anyway? I don’t buy anything from them not even fuel. If you want an education observe the disgusting way they look at women and mutter to each other about them. Women customers are totally oblivious to this treatment and couldn’t be nicer to these pigs.
Dan says
If they are a private company, they can do whatever they want with their business. In Canada there’s no booze sold in gas stations, so I don’t have any issue with their decision.
But…
The article says the Issa brothers find the selling of booze to drivers as unethical.
Muslims won’t change how they treat women just because our laws are different, so what makes you think they’ll change their ethics when it comes to business?
They consider Christian practices immoral and our business laws are based on Christian principles.
I spent almost two years in several Islamic countries so, unless someone can prove different there is no doubt in my mind they built up their fortune via Islamic business practices, which included taqiyya.
When two groups start slinging ethics, they at least have to have come from the same moral starting point.
billybob says
If you want my humble opinion, it is that we stick to criticizing the evils of Islam, rather than attack “Muslims”, who may be that in name only, or may be indifferent to their faith, simply uninformed and not devote, or who actually promote reform, no matter how impossible such a thing would seem to us.
There is no end to the need for educating others about the horrible ideology of Islam. I spend hours every day learning ever more, and thinking about how to counteract its spread. Just today I had an idea, inspired by Pamela Geller’s wonderful bus and subway ads she puts up to counter the propaganda promoted by the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
The idea I had today is this…
(Let me begin by stating clearly here, I am not the least bit anti-Semitic. Rather, I have great sympathy for the Jewish cause. “In any conflict between the Civilized Man and the Savage, support the Civilized Man”)
Put up a website that appears to be pure anti-Semitism. Write a long, rambling tirade against Jews that is exactly and perfectly paraphrasing the Quran, Sunna, and Hadiths as interpreted by the most widely accept Islamic scholars. The point is to get yourself arrested for spreading hate speech – specifically, blatant anti-Semitism. Get yourself taken to court, where you hopefully lose the case and are judged and sentenced.
Then upon appeal, base you appeal upon the fact that every single word on your website is a direct quote from the Quran, (though the translation was loosened only enough to initially disguise the source upon a superficial reading).
Hopefully, you lose the appeal and it go higher up the chain and you keep on losing.
Finally, reinstate exactly the same website, only this time the wording exactly conforms with the most accepted translations of those same unholy books.
Get shut down and hauled off to court again, and hopefully get the the Quran, Sunna, and Hadiths banned as hate speech.
Anybody hazard a guess as to if this might work? I know it is very hard to get a ruling against hate speech, even in my country of Canada. By we did have a very famous case a few decades ago involving a famous holocaust denier who was finally muzzled.
The point is, these books need to be denounced for the evil political ideology they represent, and should be treated with a greater distain Mein Kampf is treated with today, considering the Mein Kampf is not even half as bad as the aforementioned unholy books.
Tom says
Billy Bob,
Sorry, I disagree. I believe the quiet Muslims are secretly cheering every time an Islamic terrorist performs an act. The so called good Muslims do NOTHING to prevent their buddies from becoming radicalized. BTW: no one can be radicalized against their will. These men and women are lost souls searching for something to hold onto. So verbally and in writing, attack Muslims at every turn. They are doing the same to you!!
gravenimage says
If the Qur’an and other texts of Islam were banned as hate speech, Muslims would not stop reading them. It would just turn good people like Robert Spencer into criminals. I’d be heading for jail, as well, since I own several editions of the Qur’an myself.
It would just leave Infidels unable to learn what is in the foul texts of Islam.
jayell says
There’s a petrol station just up the road from me that’s recently been taken over by EG on some kind os business partnership with Esso and the UK supermarket giant Tesco. The previous owners were (I believe) also muslim (also working with Esso) who DID sell alcohol, but at an inflated price. I personally have a problem here that whilst I am very suspicious of the muslim community getting a big hold of any of our markets here in the UK, I find it hard to disagree with the idea that the idea that an establishment that is first and foremost a filling station for motorists should not be also selling a substance that will impair one’s driving abilities. Here in the UK we have for decades had convenience stores called ‘Off-Licences’ (i.e., a shop with a licence to sell alcohol for consumption OFF the premises), and petrol stations just sold petrol + a few things to do with cars. There are plenty of convenience stores around the place. Also, filling stations on UK motorways have always been prohibited from selling alcohol. So, if EG’s decsision is based on concern for road safety, that’s fine. If, however, it is based on foisting islamic garbage onto the great British Public, that is NOT alright.
Tom says
Applying that logic, any store that you drive up to should not sell alcohol. The obvious solution, using your logic, is home delivery and only allowing alcohol to be consumed in the home. Cars, trucks and motorcycles would require a breath test before operating.
Get my point? WE are becoming too PC and overly regulating our lives. I agree that one should not drink and drive as it negatively impacts innocent lives. However, one must be responsible for their own behavior and pay the consequences, quite harshly, for alcohol infractions.
robm says
Does the Moslem brotherhood own these stores?
gravenimage says
Euro Garage is now owned by Mohsin and Zuber Issa. I’ve been unable to learn much about their links. But given how common it is for Muslim businesses to use revenue to fund violent Jihad, this makes me very leery.
UNCLE VLADDI says
Re: “These new Muslim owners are forbidden by Islamic law to sell alcohol, although that law is widely ignored.”
WRONG.
Actually, by the tenets of sharia, they ARE ALLOWED TO SELL ALCOHOL to infidels and profit thereby from the infidels’ self-destruction.
Angemon says
Except that not everyone who buys spirits is going to drink and drive. Even if they drink and drive, there’s a legally allowed level of alcohol in blood. Are they going to stop selling books and magazines either? Reading while driving is not allowed either.
EJ says
I disagree that it’s unethical for drivers to possess alcohol. It should only be viewed that way if they’re consuming.
On the other hand: Who cares what these people sell, and don’t sell, in their own store?
Passerby says
I think as store owners, they have the right to sell or not sell alcohol. If consumers want alcohol, then they should just buy elsewhere. It’s not like they’re forcing anyone to consume something against their will. Besides alcohol is not good for the body.