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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 02/24/2009 : 15:08:48
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Yep, you read it right.
The Prophet Muhammed said something about not dealing with booze. 1500+ years later, the logical conclusion is that you can't drive cars on ethanol-based bio-fuel. 
From here...:
Sheikh Mohamed Al-Najimi, member of the Saudi Islamic Jurisprudence Academy, based his statement on a saying by the prophet that prohibited all kinds of dealings with alcohol including buying, selling, carrying, serving, drinking, and manufacturing, the Saudi newspaper Shams reported Thursday.
Saudi and Muslim youth studying abroad would violate the prohibition if they used bio fuel, he said, since it “is basically made up of alcohol.”
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As a side-effect, Saudi-Arabia would of course sell more oil, but that's beside the point. How easily politics and religion can unite for a common goal.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 02/24/2009 : 15:30:57 [Permalink]
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Hilarious!
Gee whiz. You surely wouldn't suppose that Al-Najimi has a stake in the petroleum industry, would you? Certainly he simply wants peoples' cars to remain sober and holy.
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 02/24/2009 15:31:15 |
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 02/24/2009 : 16:04:19 [Permalink]
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So does that means alcohol is never used as an antiseptic in Islamic hospitals?
Edited to add: Guess not:| Dispensers containing anti-bacterial gel have been placed outside wards at hospitals all over Britain in a bid to get rid of superbugs like MRSA and PVL...But some Muslims refuse to use the hand cleansers on religious grounds because they contain alcohol. |
Now, granted, the only other references to this I can find all point back to The Sun, which is notoriously inaccurate.
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| Edited by - H. Humbert on 02/24/2009 16:12:41 |
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The Rat
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 02/25/2009 : 20:37:15 [Permalink]
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| Originally posted by H. Humbert...the only other references to this I can find all point back to [i]The Sun, which is notoriously inaccurate. |
As opposed to page three, which is simply notorious. |
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Saudi scholar warns alcohol in bio fuel is a sin
