My latest in PJ Media:
Concerned about the government overstepping its bounds and asserting increasing control over aspects of life it has no business interfering with? You should be. And in many parts of the world, governments are providing daily object lessons in what happens when citizens allow self-serving, power-mad officials to arrogate too much power to themselves and overstep all rational restraints. In Nigeria on Wednesday, for example, a state government destroyed nearly four million bottles of beer. Four million bottles of beer, gone, sacrificed to fanaticism and the brutal arrogation of power by unfeeling elites.
AFP reported Thursday that the Islamic religious police in the northern state of Kano destroyed the beer because “sale and consumption of alcohol is prohibited in the predominantly Muslim region.” That’s because the sale and consumption of alcohol are also prohibited in Islamic law. The Qur’an says: “O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, stone altars, and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.” (5:90)
A hadith depicts Muhammad saying: “Wine is cursed from ten angles: The wine itself, the one who squeezes (the grapes etc), the one for whom it is squeezed, the one who sells it, the one who buys it, the one who carries it, the one to whom it is carried, the one who consumes its price, the one who drinks it and the one who pours it.” (Sunan Ibn Majah 3380)
As a result, says AFP, “Sharia police called Hisbah often destroy alcohol and confiscated drugs”; however, the French news service, with barely concealed enthusiasm, noted that this was an especially “huge beer haul.” The precise number of beer bottled destroyed was 3,873,163; the Sharia police ran over them with bulldozers while the assembled crowd cried “Allahu akbar.” Once the bottles were crushed, the cops set fire to what remained, “and the blaze continued throughout the night, according to residents of Tudun Kalebawa.”
Haruna Ibn Sina, the head of Hisbah, explained: “Kano is a sharia state and the sale, consumption and possession of alcoholic substances are prohibited in the state. This is a demonstration that we are winning the war against drug abuse and all forms of intoxicants in Kano.” Those caught drinking alcohol risk getting horsewhipped eighty times.
However, the sobriety police have received a bit of pushback from Christians in Kano, who don’t believe that they are or should be bound by the strictures of Islamic law. AFP noted that “in December, youths in Kano’s predominantly Christian neighbourhood of Sabon Gari clashed with Hisbah police when they tried to raid taverns and beer parlours in the area. The mob set bonfires on the streets, prompting the deployment of regular police to restore order.”
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mortimer says
What are all those thirsty Muslims in northern Nigeria going to drink now? They’ll have to go to a neighboring state to bring in beer across the state border. The police in Kano will also have to go across the state border too, unless they can procure some of the contraband booze from their friends.
This prohibition measure is no doubt unconstitutional according to the Nigerian constitution and a legal challenge will overturn it.
bill says
I never knew that beer and broken glass could burn. However much more serious than beer and which is ignored by MSM is the rising body count of Christians killed by Muslims in Nigeria
Fitna says
Coming to a western nation near you soon. This is what happens when Muslims are no longer a small minority, they want the entire planet to live under their barbaric, backwards dictates.
I heard many stupid excuses, “Islam is not a monolith,” “we all don’t think alike.” They’re all liars and they have the same agenda. I have no interest in war, but if nothing is done to stop them, perhaps within a generation or two we’ll find ourselves at war with them.
Rufolino says
In some European countries it is likely to be a little less than “a generation or two” before “war” (guerrilla war at he least) breaks out between the original population, and the dominating Muslim invaders. France is at the top of the list.
Fitna says
True Rufolino, esp. if the politicians continue to do nothing about this problem, it could start much sooner in places like France, Sweden, Denmark and so on, where the Islamification is at its worst.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were an uptick in so-called “Islamophobic terrorist attacks.” Unfortunately whenever such things happen, the politicians always take the side of Muslims, rather than try to understand why people are attacking them, so the issue continues to escalate.
All of this was avoidable if they educated themselves on Islam and kept the Muslims out.
somehistory says
Christians are slaughtered daily in nigeria. That is a heck-of-a-lot worse than destroying beer; but not much is said to try to stop the slaughter or even said to condemn it.
mozlums are determined to force their filth on everyone else. And one aspect of their evil filth: don’t allow any person any freedom to make personal decisions. Not even when it comes to what that one wishes to drink.
satan is so pleased with his children, doing his desires.
Fitna says
Sadly Christian (and Secular) leaders in the West are turning a blind eye to this genocide against Christians and other non-Muslims in other countries.
At the very least we should be arming them so they can take care of themselves and help to topple these evil fascist Islamic regimes/dictatorships.
At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what we believe, to Muslims we’re all infidels that their god put on Earth to slaughter, enslave or convert.
somehistory says
I have to agree with you that to mozlums any disagreement is not acceptable, no matter the grounds or reasons. They are bound and determined to take the world of mankind to satan’s abyss with them.
Laura says
There is no Satan, nor is there a God, it’s all manmade.
Shawn says
Sadly,in countries like France War will and should be against the Government who allow all that’s happening there.This moment in time it’s not the Muslims but one day it will be.Why are we allowing our countries being conquered? People,some are well on their way.Muslims openly say with pride how they will rule us one day and no one says or does a thing.No matter how old I will be in will always rock against our enemies and we have two of them.
jewdog says
Muslim Drinking Song (from this week’s top ten) :
4 million bottles of beer on the wall,
4 million bottles of beer,
Take one down and smash it down,
3,999,999 bottles of beer.
3,999,999 bottles of beer on the wall…etc
James Lincoln says
Perhaps the only thing that will save the UK, is if muslims try to close down all of the local pubs – and Brits can no longer get their “pint”.
Mike says
So , where is Kano ?
Infidel says
Nigeria. Go to Google Maps or Apple Maps and you’ll find it
Clive Delmonte says
Nigeria is fast becoming a failed state.
OLD GUY says
No Bibles
No Puppies
No beer
No life.
No Islam “yea”.