Iraq banned alcohol on October 22. Immediately the vigilante Sharia enforcers began to take enforcement upon themselves.
“A Christian Owner of a Liquor Store Murdered in Basrah,” Basnews, October 27, 2016 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
BASRAH — Following a ban on alcohol in Iraq, a Christian citizen in Basrah province in southern Baghdad was murdered late on Tuesday by two unidentified gunmen apparently for selling alcoholic beverages.
A local source said that the two gunmen riding a motorcycle opened fire at the Christian citizen Nizar Elias Musa, in front of his restaurant in al-Watan street in Basra, adding that the victim had a liquor store as well.
The Iraqi parliament passed a law on October 22 which prohibits the import, production and sale of alcoholic beverages. The law however angered many in the country’s Christian community who rely on the business.
The law imposes a fine of up to 25 million Iraqi dinars ($19,000) for anyone violating the law. But it’s yet unclear how strictly the law would be enforced, and it could be struck down by the supreme court.

vladkoval says
I bet those were the muslims Clinton told of which asked her not forget them, not to be “”islamophobic”, not to push them into the claws of ISIS
Stephanie says
Qur’an 5:90 “Wine, Intoxicants (alcohol) is a great sin”
2:219 “wine is a great sin”
http://quran.al-islam.com/Page.aspx?pageid=221&BookID=15&SuraNum=5&AyaNum=90
Punishment in Bukhari, Book 81: ‘Limits and Punishments set by Allah (Hudood)’
Vol. 8, Book 81, No. 764, 767 “The Prophet beat a drunk with palm-leaf stalks and shoes. And Abu Bakr[ close companion of Muhammad 51 & father of childbride Aisha 6 ]gave (such a sinner) FORTY LASHES.”
http://sunnah.com/bukhari/86
Stephanie says
9:30 ‘… may Allah destroy them (Jews & Christians) through Muslim hands as His ‘test’ 8:17
http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=9&from_verse=30&to_verse=30&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_shakir=1
http://www.searchtruth.com/chapter_display_all.php?chapter=8&from_verse=17&to_verse=17&mac=&translation_setting=1&show_yusufali=1
Christianblood says
During Sadam Husein’s regime of Iraq selling and consuming Alcohol was allowed for Christians and others who wish to freely enjoy drinking alcohol, including large amount of secular muslims who drank alcohol. Thanks to the American, Western intervention which deposed and hanged Saddam and his secular government, islamists are in power in Iraq today and hence alcohol is banned and this poor christian family man and many others like him are monthly executed. America and the West along with their head-chopping islamic Saudis and genocidal muslim Turkish allies are trying now to depose and murder Assad, the secular president Assad, the protector of Christians who rules Syria and replace him with ISIS, Al-Nusra Front which is (Al-Qaeda) in Syria and with dozens of other jihadist groups in that country. Today in government controlled areas in Syria alcohol is enjoyed freely by millions of Christians and other religious minorities including secular muslims but if America and Saudi plan to depose Assad and replace him with jihadists succeeds, millions of alcohol drinking Syrians who are mostly Christians and others will die, therefore, please pray for the complete defeat of the American, Saudi-backed jihadists in Syria and may heaven approve that just and righteous prayer.
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“During Sadam Husein’s regime of Iraq selling and consuming Alcohol was allowed for Christians and others who wish to freely enjoy drinking alcohol, including large amount of secular muslims who drank alcohol. ”
Saddam grew increasingly religious during his regime and in September, 1993 bot only the Iraqi Ministry of Interior closed twenty-nine of Baghdad’s forty-five night-clubs and all-but five discothèques but also public consumption of alcohol was banned and punished with a month’s imprisonment.
“Thanks to the American, Western intervention which deposed and hanged Saddam and his secular government, islamists are in power in Iraq today and hence alcohol is banned and this poor christian family man and many others like him are monthly executed.”
This is demonstrably false. Like I said, there were already severe restrictions in place regarding alcohol. Saddam was NOT secular. Sure, he cracked down on islamic terror groups that challenged his power but he had no qualms supporting islamic terror groups that played ball with him and either did his bidding or restricted their actions to outside of Iraq, but a unbiased look to Saddam’s actions clearly shows that he islamized his regime. In 1995 his son-in-law, Kamel Hussein, defected to Jordan and spilled the beans regarding Saddam’s plans to develop WMDs. A couple of details that were probably not given the importance they deserved was that members of Saddam’s Ba’at party were required to pass a religious exam and that the party stopped and took prayer breaks during its meetings. Is that the behaviour of a secular leader? Of course not.
Saddam may have seen islam and sharia only as as a means to an end (and even that is debatable considering the remarks made by some of his former staff members), but for the islamists he brought to positions of power sharia was the end in itself, and a revolution to bring islamists to power was not a matter of “if” but of “when”, like Barzan al-Tikriti, his half-brother, warned him off in 2000.
For all your rage against American intervention in Iraq (and your lack of internal consistency seeing how you don’t give the Russian intervention in Afghanistan, which was clearly much more disastrous and with longer, direr consequences, and saw two presidents killed, one through Russia’s puppet and another directly by Russian soldiers), you leave out the blatantly obvious facts: key members of ISIS were key members of Saddam’s staff. No, however misguided the American intervention in Iraq may have been, ISIS is the fruits of Saddam’s and Assad’s labours.
The rest of your post is simply a daft attempt to capitalize on a non-existing issue and ascribe malevolence to America without any sort of evidence but the accusation itself.
Angemon says
small typo: where it reads “bot only” it should read “not only”
gravenimage says
All true, Angemon.
Baucent says
“Saddam may have seen islam and sharia only as as a means to an end”
Now you are getting closer. I remember well the early 1990’s and the build up to the Gulf war after the invasion of Kuwait. Before Kuwait, stories of Saddam made it clear, this was a man who didn’t take his religion very seriously, and he was known to enjoy Whisky. More of an Arab Nationalist, with a socialist bent. As the noose began to tighten Saddam, who previously favoured wearing a military uniform, started dressing in Arab robes and highlighting his muslim credentials. It was an attempt to rally Arab and muslim support, and appear as the leader of the Arabs against the West. The final stage was in the brief Gulf war when he launched skud missiles at Israel to prove his solidarity with the Palestinians. It was all for show and it’s doubtful he fooled anyone, Arabs included.
But it is a fact that during Saddam’s time the lives of Christians in Iraq was much easier than it is today. The population reduction of Christians (by hundreds of thousands) all happened post defeat of Saddam. It would have been wiser to have broken Saddam’s military might but left him in power to rule, effectively that was what George Bush senior did. And that was often the way since ancient times in the middle east. Make him a vassel-king. Had Bush/Cheney and co done that, there would have been no Islamic State. And probably no “Arab Spring”.
Angemon says
Baucent posted:
“Had Bush/Cheney and co done that, there would have been no Islamic State.”
This is where we disagree. Saddam, even if he wasn’t religious himself, was placing what today are commonly referred to as “islamists” in positions of power. He was enforcing some sharia rules and even set up his own version of the Saudi “morality police”. He was islamizing his party and Iraq and, sooner or later, he’d have have a religious revolution on his hands. The head of his Intelligence Services, his half-brother Barzan al-Tikriti, told him just that. Misguided as the American intervention may have been, it only helped to set the stage – the actors were already sitting restless in the sidelines, eager to come in, courtesy of Saddam and his policies. There’s a 2011 paper by Amatzia Baram, an Israeli professor of Middle Eastern history and the director of the Centre for Iraq Studies at the University of Haifa, for the Woodrow Wilson Centre called “From Militant Secularism to Islamism: The Iraqi Ba’th Regime 1968-2003” that goes into more detail, if you’re interested.
Oh, and we also disagree on the Arab Spring. Saddam or not, it would happen sooner or later, as it is seemingly part of the fourth phase described by Al-Qaeda members in their interviews with Fouad Hussein (there’s a 2005 article in Spiegel if you’re curious). The Arab Spring started in Tunisia. Tunisia is, according to The Soufan Group’s December 2015 report about the flow of foreign fighters into Syria and Iraq (ISIS), the top country from where ISIS foreign fighters come from, with 6,000 members. The second place goes to Saudi Arabia (2,500) and the bronze medal goes to Russia (2,400). Turkey (2,100) and Jordan (2,000) close the top 5. There was a problem with “islamists” in Tunisia, Second Gulf War or not.
The general pattern we see in muslim-majority countries is that when things are doing well, islamic law becomes lax. When things start heading south, leaders start growing, even if only outwardly to keep up appearances and hold to power, more religious. And historically, nothing good came from using alliances with “islamists” as a means to an end because the “islamists” have an agenda of their own. For the common person on the street it makes no difference if, let’s say, crackdown on alcohol is being enforced by a true believer or by someone posing as one. For the child being taught quran in school it makes no difference if the leader who added quran lesson to the school’s syllabus is a true believer or not.
davej says
Does any other “religion” that abstains from alcohol extend that to banning it to any other group?
Or, far worse, enforce it’s opinion by murdering them? This is the radical aspect of Islam that demonstrates it’s basic inhumanity. Even if you think alcohol is bad, or that your daughter shouldn’t talk to infidels, isn’t deliberate murder more evil by 100 magnitudes?
BTW, faces are revealing. Look at the picture of the victimized Christian father and compare it to the pictures of the jihad monsters. It truly is a battle of Good and Evil.
Mockingjay says
“…faces are revealing. Look at the picture of the victimized Christian father and compare it to the pictures of the jihad monsters. It truly is a battle of Good and Evil.”
How right you are, davej.
– I’ve noticed the same thing – everytime there’s a picture of a victim on this site, – no matter what their religious background is – I’m struck by the difference in their facial expression to the average muslim fanatic.
It’s mostly in the eyes, I guess, but that’s not all. There is a gentle humanity in the demeanor of these victims, something that is completely absent in every true follower of Muhammad.
Yes. This truly is a battle of Good versus Evil.
Mark A says
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you, courtesy of the local sharia patrol which will be formed when the local Islamists have sufficient numbers………….
gravenimage says
Iraq: Muslims murder Christian owner of liquor store
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Damn barbarians. This poor man and his family.
Simone Fields says
My thoughts exactly.
dumbledoresarmy says
This story reminds me of something that Australian journalist Paul Sheehan, writing in the Sydney Morning Herald, *ten years ago*, recounted.
Muslim harassement of a middle-eastern Christian bottle-shop owner… in a suburb of *western Sydney*.
The guy hadn’t actually been *killed*; but he was being subjected to ferocious non-stop bullying, in an attempt to drive him out of an area that was being claimed as “Muslim” ONLY.
Not sure whether the link still works, but I kept a complete copy of the story at the time, so can provide the relevant paragraphs.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/paul-sheehan/ideals-become-casualties-of-war/2006/08/13/1155407666922.html
“…One of the edges of the global clash between Muslims and the rest is a bottle shop in a small and ratty shopping mall in western Sydney.
“The owner of the bottle shop is suffering low-level but steady harassment from his neighbours, who want him gone. He’s a Christian who has been told repeatedly: “This is a Muslim area,” and he is selling alcohol, which is proscribed by Islam.
“The one-hour parking zone outside the bottle shop is always occupied because local Muslims leave their cars there all day.
“The owner has written to the local council to complain, and nothing has been done.
“He does not want to be identified because he fears retribution. His reaction is sensible….
“…. The harassed operator of the bottle shop, for instance, is an Arab Christian…”. (Probably Lebanese Maronite Catholic – dda). END QUOTE.
The overweening megalomanical Muslim sense of total entitlement, which means in practice, an entitlement to treat all other humans like garbage, to indulge continually in every type of cruelty and bad behaviour, from petty nastiness (Muslims know all about how to inflict ‘micro-aggression’!!!) all the way on up to gleeful orgies of mass murder, is revolting. It is even more revolting because coupled so often with continual displays of exaggerated self-pity.