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Islam solved the problem. Complete ban, and it works, because it's a religious ban. Compare it with the American Prohibition which didn't work. I'm speaking fro

Islam solved the problem. Complete ban, and it works, because it's a religious ban. Compare it with the American Prohibition which didn't work. I'm speaking from the most secularized Muslim nation in the world (Turkey), and it works to great extent even here. Note that it's legally free to drink here.

stOneskull 3y ago
> Note that it's legally free to drink here. for everyone or just non-muslims? like in malaysia, you have to be non-muslim to buy alcohol. malaysia has quite a unique population though. indonesia regulates it heavily, you need to have money to drink, but it is only totally banned in a couple of provinces.
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  For everyone. And yet I don’t know any single person who have ever drank among all of my relatives.
joker_minmax 3y ago
Islam is the most practiced religion in Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Albania, but alcohol is widely available and consumed in those countries.
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  You’re nitpicking. Only half of the Bosnia (%51) and Albania (%56) is muslim, and Azerbaijan is the most secular muslim country in the world according to wikipedia[1], and muslims there are mostly Shiis who are very different than the global widespread and common sect of Islam, Sunnism. Shia’s prohibitions/restrictions are often very lax and they often worship less, Shiism resembles a collection of rituals more than true Islam. Sunnis consider them deviants. All three of those countries were under Soviet rule for some time, and SSCB was known to censor and ban religion and outright murder religious people in especially Muslim countries she occupied. See the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844988 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan
  - Aerbil313 3y ago
    I meant USSR, not SSCB. SSCB is Turkish abbreviation.

stOneskull 3y ago

> Note that it's legally free to drink here. for everyone or just non-muslims? like in malaysia, you have to be non-muslim to buy alcohol. malaysia has quite a unique population though. indonesia regulates it heavily, you need to have money to drink, but it is only totally banned in a couple of provinces.

Aerbil313 3y ago
For everyone. And yet I don’t know any single person who have ever drank among all of my relatives.

joker_minmax 3y ago

Islam is the most practiced religion in Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Albania, but alcohol is widely available and consumed in those countries.

Aerbil313 3y ago
You’re nitpicking. Only half of the Bosnia (%51) and Albania (%56) is muslim, and Azerbaijan is the most secular muslim country in the world according to wikipedia[1], and muslims there are mostly Shiis who are very different than the global widespread and common sect of Islam, Sunnism. Shia’s prohibitions/restrictions are often very lax and they often worship less, Shiism resembles a collection of rituals more than true Islam. Sunnis consider them deviants. All three of those countries were under Soviet rule for some time, and SSCB was known to censor and ban religion and outright murder religious people in especially Muslim countries she occupied. See the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844988 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35844988 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Azerbaijan
- Aerbil313 3y ago
  I meant USSR, not SSCB. SSCB is Turkish abbreviation.