from Jihad Watch:
Nigeria: Veiled female Sharia police smash 80,000 bottles of beer while shouting "Allahu akbar"
Veiled female Sharia police smashing beer bottles. 80,000 beer bottles. Good God. Welcome to your future, Europe. Note the beer was set to be delivered to a Christian area -- something to keep in mind for those who insist that in a Sharia state, non-Muslims will be exempt from its dictates.
Sharia Alert from Nigeria. "Islamic police smash 80,000 beer bottles in Nigeria," from AFP, August 3 (thanks to Twostellas):
KANO, Nigeria (AFP) - Islamic police smashed 80,000 bottles of beer in the Nigerian city of Kano on Tuesday to enforce a sharia law ban on consumption of alcohol that exists in much of the country's north.
Over a dozen veiled female sharia police, called Hisbah, destroyed the beer bottles with sticks amid shouts of "Allahu Akbar" (God is Great) on the outskirts of the northern city in a ceremony.
The ceremony was attended by government officials as part of "efforts to rid the state of immorality," said Kano state Hisbah chief Saidu Dukawa. Kano city is the capital of the state by the same name.
"The sale and consumption of alcohol, like all forms of drugs and intoxicants, is illegal in Kano state, which practices sharia law and by this event we are enforcing that ban," Dukawa told AFP.
Thirteen trucks brought the bottles of beer to the venue.
The alcohol had been seized at the weekend by sharia police as the bottles were being delivered to the city from the mainly Christian south, where most of the country?s breweries are located, Dukawa said.
Although the sale and consumption of alcohol is banned in Kano state, beer trucks find their way to taverns in the predominantly Christian Sabongari neighbourhood, which is practically exempt from sharia law....
Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation, and roughly half of the 150 million population is Muslim.
What if the other half wants a beer?
Posted by Robert on August 3, 2010 2:21 PM
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