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Mali: Muslims smash Timbuktu bars and liquor stalls

Feb 27, 2017 11:19 am By Robert Spencer

The nature of Islamic law is such that one cannot be content with one’s own righteousness; one must enforce one’s vision of righteousness upon everyone else.

“Timbuktu bars smashed by Muslim protesters in Mali,” News24, February 26, 2017:

Bamako – Dozens of young Muslims opposed to alcoholic beverages smashed bars and liquor stalls in the northern Malian city of Timbuktu on Saturday, saying they were “places of depravity”, local sources said.

“The youngsters were very organised, having targeted what to destroy,” said a resident reached by phone who asked not to be identified. “Beer bottles were smashed and bags containing alcohol were destroyed.”

Several dozen youths were involved in the protest, a police source said, adding that at least five bars and stalls had been ransacked in the city more than 900km north of the capital Bamako.

An army source said no one had been injured in the protests.

Fabled Timbuktu has been dubbed “the city of 333 saints” for the number of Muslim sages buried there and was revered as a centre of Islamic learning during its golden age in the 15th and 16th centuries.

But in 2012 jihadists who swept across Mali’s remote north demolished many centuries-old earthen shrines.

One of the organisers of Saturday’s anti-liquor drive, Ousmane Maiga, said the protesters belonged to youth groups and Muslim organisations in Timbuktu.

“Alcohol consumption has increased recently and as we are on Muslim land we do not [want] to see this any longer,” he said….

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  1. eur says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 12:23 pm

    Muslim land….for a Muslim there where there are Muslims is a Muslim land … your country, your region, your city, your neighborhood … is now a muslim land. Be alert the owners of bars, pubs, discos, taverns of all life where the elderly play dominoes / cards and drink wine …

  2. The RationalVoice says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 12:34 pm

    This is what is in store for any country which in the future they consider to be Muslim land. Sweden with its politicians in full denial of the present and future danger will have its drinking problem solved. But no suicide anymore guys except as a suicide bomber carrying out the will of Allah. Abba songs will be banned!!! Not sure if that’s a god or a bad thing??????

    • Westman says

      Feb 27, 2017 at 1:33 pm

      How about revoking the citizenship of the celebrities who promised to leave if Trump was elected; give them passports, and a visa to Sweden? If the Swedes can tolerate the increased crime without complaint, a few loud-mouth seditionists might offer some comic relief.

      • Oliver says

        Feb 28, 2017 at 9:26 am

        Not only the celebrities who said they would leave. Include those like Madonna. Judd
        And those at the Oscars.

        Might end up with a higher quality entertainment industry without them

  3. Westman says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 12:40 pm

    “And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.” Quran 3:110

    Muslims are advised to be intolerant by Allah’s book. Sharia patrols and smashing shops selling liquor are normal outcomes.

    Then there is the grand plan: “….destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers….” Obviously, as used, “miserable” means Western civilization is making Muslims miserable because the Moon God isn’t getting enough likes on Facebook.

    Apparently ‘sabotage” and stealth are needed by Islam because the more visible the actual ideology becomes, the more primitive it appears.

  4. Angemon says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 1:55 pm

    Fabled Timbuktu has been dubbed “the city of 333 saints” for the number of Muslim sages buried there

    Ironically, that’s haram.

  5. No Fear says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 4:30 pm

    Bottles smashed? What a criminal waste of booze.

  6. carlos danger says

    Feb 27, 2017 at 7:06 pm

    Muslim Land

  7. Chris Malan says

    Feb 28, 2017 at 6:45 am

    Alcohol is a class A carcinogen and worldwide causes about one death every 15 seconds. It has a higher social cost than all illegal drugs added together. Only a fool will defend alcohol. And only a fool will buy a product with such exhaustively proven negative consequences from people who couldn’t care less if it kills him.

    • Oliver says

      Feb 28, 2017 at 9:30 am

      So don’t drink
      But don’t moralize that nobody else should either

      Stop trying for a nanny state.

      • Chris Malan says

        Feb 28, 2017 at 9:51 am

        Yeah, you’re right. Buying a commercial solvent which does massive harm to humanity from someone who doesn’t care if it kills you, as long as he gets your money, is the height of manliness and intelligence.

        Why stop at alcohol? What about cocaine, ice, heroin? Isn’t prohibiting them a sign of a nanny state? After all, they do far less harm than alcohol.

        It is stupid to argue against facts.

        • David Ramseur says

          Feb 28, 2017 at 11:08 am

          Cocaine, Ice, and Heroin do far less harm than alcohol? And you follow this up with “it is stupid to argue against facts”? Wow! We get that you hate alcohol. That is ok. We understand the negatives alcohol can bring. Trust me, I came from a family of addicts. But, you are throwing in with the Islamists so hard that you have no credibility. Maybe you can nurture a more live and let live approach.

        • Chris Malan says

          Feb 28, 2017 at 7:51 pm

          This is the Internet age. Not only is there information, this information is easily accessible. Search ‘death from illegal drugs in X’. Replace X with the country name. Here’s what I found inside of a minute for the USA: ‘According to the Center for Disease Control, smoking tobacco is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States. Alcohol is not as deadly as tobacco, but it is still responsible for more deaths than prescription opioids, heroin, and cocaine combined.’

          And you carry the torch for alcohol.

          And should I live and let the booze barons live? They are such nice people.

          I didn’t come up for Muslims. I spoke out against the idiocy of drinking alcohol.

          I repeat, it’s idiotic to speak against the facts.

        • bernie says

          Feb 28, 2017 at 10:36 pm

          If consumed moderately and responsibly, alcohol can have health benefits. It can help one to feel relaxed, digest food better, improve circulation, and socialize. Tobacco, by constrast, has no real benefits at all, and is deleterious to one’s health.

        • Chris Malan says

          Feb 28, 2017 at 11:40 pm

          All the beneficial effects of alcohol are nonsense. You’ll find big booze behind all that propaganda. It is now known that there is no safe limit of alcohol intake. Read Bad Science by Ben Goldacre. https://www.amazon.com.au/d/ebook/Bad-Science-Ben-Goldacre/B002RI9ORI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1488342964&sr=8-1&keywords=bad+science It will open your eyes to how much you are lied to.

          In any case, nobody who dies from or suffers severely because of alcohol starts off with the intention of drinking himself to death or into a divorce or losing his job. It is the nature of alcohol to make people drink more than they intended. That doesn’t happen to anybody who doesn’t drink at all.

  8. terry says

    Mar 2, 2017 at 7:50 pm

    RE: ALCOHOL, DEATH ETC.

    The leading cause of death IN ALL COUNTRIES IS: DRUM ROLL, PLEASE.

    BEING BORN – AND LIVING.

    So, therefore, if not is not born, one cannot die.

    And, back to the Moralizing Chris M. SO DON’T DRINK.

    And, incidentally- why are those who don’t drink also get divorced? Also lose jobs? And also have many of the negative side effects that you seem to say are the result of having some drinks?

    In France & Italy, (pre Muslim invasion, anyhow) it was considered normal to have wine with dinner. Including children. Yet they have 9or had, again, prior to the Muslim invasions) lower levels of heart disease than those in Britain, the US and elsewhere.

    • Chris Malan says

      Mar 2, 2017 at 10:55 pm

      How utterly stupid. One can’t avoid being born. One can avoid drinking. Nobody ever said or intimated that bad things do not happen to those who do not drink. So, why bring it up? It is irrelevant. I never said alcohol is the ONLY cause of bad things happening.

      I can safely say that Terry is of low intelligence and education. To argue against the facts is just stupid. To use unsound arguments and crooked thinking is even more so. Why display your ignorance in public?

      The booze barons thank you for supporting them. And what’s more, at no cost to them. Even so, if booze ends up killing you, they won’t so much as send a wreath to your funeral or lose a moment’s sleep over their product killing you. To them, it will be just another sucker biting the dust with many more in line to replace him and keep their coffers filled.

      Among many Muslims it is taken as normal to want to kill non-Muslims. Is that to say it is good?

      Also, the countries you mention have higher levels of cancer than the USA. Look it up.

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