Posted on 08/04/2010 8:50:28 PM PDT by posterchild
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) – Islamic police smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday to enforce a sharia law ban on consumption of alcohol that exists in much of the country's north.
Over a dozen veiled female sharia police, called Hisbah, destroyed the beer bottles with sticks amid shouts of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) on the outskirts of the northern city in a ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by government officials as part of "efforts to rid the state of immorality," said Kano state Hisbah chief Saidu Dukawa. Kano city is the capital of the state by the same name.
"The sale and consumption of alcohol, like all forms of drugs and intoxicants, is illegal in Kano state, which practices sharia law and by this event we are enforcing that ban," Dukawa told AFP.
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The rules apply everywhere, they just do not follow them. They are even preaching those rules here.
These people are evil.
The Koran is not the only guideline for Islamic Law.
Under Islamic Law it is written as any beverage that intoxicates when taken in large quantities is unlawful in small and large quantities, whether it is wine, raisin drink, or something else.
Adultery is fine as long as you are a male and there are fewer than 3 witnesses.
If you are a female and someone makes a unsubstantiated accusation you are as good as dead.
Beer-smashing? Islam has a really bad marketing director.
Beer-smashing? Islam has a really bad marketing director.
Beer-smashing? Islam has a really bad marketing director.
In Islam, they call it “Duff Love”.
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