Muslims and Alcohol
I get to interact a little more with our admin assistants (there are 3 of them, of which 2 are Malay) whenever officers are roped in to help with logistical/labor-intensive stuff from time to time. and so yest while sitting at the big work table with a few other officers and our 2 very chirpy malay colleagues, we somehow managed to talk about alcohol... and for the first time i discovered that muslims are not allowed to ingest alcohol! i'm so chi dun! i suppose if i were more observant, i would have noticed... but alas this has never crossed my mind. once again felt ashamed of my ignorance. i tried to recall instances of muslims drinking alcoholic drinks, but i couldn't really remb any... found it hard to believe cos alcohol's such a 'social' drink... and so if Muslims dun drink, or try not to... how does it affect say their social dealings with clients? so they cannot 'drown their sorrows'? so i asked with a look of disbelief, (very ironically, coming from a non-alcoholic like me) so... during festive seasons there's no alcohol? to which my colleague replied, no, they just drink soft drinks... she also added that they cannot even have rum in the cake! so she cannot eat tiramisu! etc etc. maybe this is a super bad reason to be relieved, but i'm quite thankful i have no religion-imposed diet restrictions... else i cannot eat tiramisu.. cannot eat my Dublin mudslide ice-cream... okok, but that's all besides the point.
2 comments:
the boys who came over here and downed the towers weren,t following the rules of the religen.some of them were in the bar,s and did much more with women and a whole lot more.so guess its just the women who have to stick to the rules.they did profiles on the guys and it was interesting to see what they did when no one was looking.but then anyone who can do what they did shows they aren,t thinking clear any way.people who can kill inocent people are nuts.they don,t drink but they can kill,that seems alittle odd don,t you think?
perhaps there are different standards of what's acceptable and what's not amongst different cultures/nations, despite them all following the same religion?
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