Muslims

Ive had some great Muslim neighbors, very respectful, helpful and just polite in general, they said that its against their religion to drink alcohol when I was with them, but they seem to drink just as much as anyone when they had guest over.

Muslims are much like Baptist, most of them drink they just dont tell anyone. Interesting about the muslim community, ee live largely in a conscious based society where most people want to do right due to their own conscious. Most places in the middle east are shame based, where you can essentially do what you want, so long as noone finds out. Obviously this doesnt mean everyone, I met some really good people there. And drinking doesnt make a person bad. It may be different in ultra.conservative places like Saudi Arabia. In big cities, such as bahgdad and such, its not much different than America.

Anyways, sad that is good win was marred by his actions afterward.

When I was stationed at the US embassy in Libya the Libyans used to love being invited to American parties and events. Alcohol is illegal in Libya but us American diplomats would get alcohol shipped in. It’s also when I learned to brew beer.

So while it was considered a sin for the Libyans to drink alcohol, they considered it even a worse sin to refuse the generosity of their hosts, so when we had alcohol out and available for them they were happy to partake.

Then I was stationed in Indonesia for three years, but while it is the most populous Muslim country in the world, they had bars and night clubs and strip clubs and brothels. During Ramadan they just had to cover up all advertisements for alcohol and any alcohol served had to be served in opaque cups. In Libya, during Ramadan, if you were seen so much as taking a sip of water in public they would spit at you. Same religion, very different cultures.

Some of my colleagues at work were Moroccan Muslims. During Ramadan they would not eat or drink all day but after sundown they would stuff themselves to bursting point. The net result was that during the fasting time of Ramadan they actually ate more than normal.