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Yet another example of religion`s role in impeding positive change and advancement in the world.

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HA! What an idiot. In Islam it clearly says that only the consumption is a sin. Besides, we use alcohol on our wounds. And anyway, my dad (who is supposed to be Muslim) does occasionally drink alcohol and God hasn't struck him down yet.

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There have been similar problems with some Muslims who work in health care refusing to use alcohol-based hand sanitizers.

Obviously both alcohol fuels and alcohol antiseptic has nothing to do with becoming intoxicated, which is the focus of alcohol bans in various religions such as Islam, Mormonism, etc.

So I'd like to think this will be rejected by most Muslims as absurd, but I fear otherwise, mainly because the most extreme and intolerant form of Islam, Salafism/Wahhabism, had the luck to find the world's deepest, cheapest, and easiest to access oil reserves under its feet. magine a Christian Identity / Aryan Nations / KKK compound in Idaho finding the world's only remaining supply of oil or some crucial commodity like that, becoming fabulously wealthy in the process and funding churches, seminaries, propaganda wings, and armed movements worldwide, becoming influential and seeming normal. Who knows what craziness they'd successfully spread in Christianity's name?

Before oil was found on Saudi land Wahhabism was dismissed by mainstream Islam as fringe, dangerous kooks, just as the Christian Identity movement is today. In fact on September 11 (ahem) 1818, an Egyptian prince acting on the orders of the Ottoman Sultan (the caliph or supreme pope/emperor of Islam) invaded the Saudi capital of Diriyah and captured its king Abdullah. Abdullah and his Wahhabi imam were sent to the Ottoman capital Constantinople and beheaded before the Hagia Sophia. Crucially, they were deemed heretics (because of the Wahhabi doctrine of classifying all those not Wahhabi Muslims as "polytheists" worthy of death), and thus denied an Islamic burial, left for dogs to eat, then thrown into the sea. The sultan then ordered prayers of thanks throughout the empire over "the defeat of the adversaries of Islam" - meaning the Saudis / Wahhabis.

But now they have oil, and are making hundreds of billions from it every year.

No wonder they are so scared of alcohol fuels - it's a DIRECT THREAT to their ill gotten loot going onward. And note that they have not bothered to denounce non-threats like hydrogen (a fraud) or electricity (not ready yet) or other petroleum fuels like diesel.

Shades of Hugo Chavez ranting about ethanol production as a "crime".

Lovers of freedom should take these rants to heart and redouble their efforts at moving the world off petroleum and onto alcohol. The best way to do that is to make flex fuel capability a mandatory standard in all new cars sold in America, just like seat belts.

http://www.energyvictory.net

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