Posted on 10/23/2016 5:58:59 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Iraq’s parliament has passed a law forbidding the import, production or selling of alcoholic beverages in a surprise move that angered many in the country’s Christian community who rely on the business.
The law, passed late Saturday night, imposes a fine of up to 25 million Iraqi dinars, or $21,000, for anyone violating the ban. But it’s unclear how strictly the law would be enforced, and it could be struck down by the supreme court.
Islam forbids the consumption of alcohol, but it has always been available in Iraq’s larger cities, mainly from shops run by Christians. Those shops are currently closed because of the Shiite holy month of Muharram. …
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When the End Game is to destroy the livelihoods and then the LIVES of Christians across the globe, who didn’t see this coming?
Islam is a Death Cult.
Why fight ISIS and Islamic Sharia when in reality the Iraqi government is the same in disguise? The problem is the false religion of Islam, the sooner it is extirpated from the face of the earth, the better we will all be. Wishful thinking.
“Moderate” Muslims
The ‘slammers like booze as much as anyone. This is just lip service to their dickweed “religion.”
but you can make all the Home Brew you want
Oh heck, 100 years ago we had a similar law here, and even put it in the U.S. Constitution. Would that this be as far as it would go for them.
PROHIBITION.
The first stupid thing that happened when women were given the vote in the USA.
The stupid just keeps coming.
Thank you George Bush.
Only question now is who will be the Kennedy family of Iraq?
This will cause a surge of rum running like nobody’s ever seen before, even here. Al Capone, please call your office.
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