Muslims need to start drinking alcohol

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The Indians smoked peace pipes. And my guess is that they probably consumed tobacco as a sacrament in certain ceremonial situations dictated by their culture. Likewise europeans had certain cultural rules for consuming alcohol. So when each race became exposed to the other race's vices niether race could handle it for cultural reasons. The whites all became chain smokers, and the Indians "chain drinkers'".

Then there are genetic issues: the Indians didnt have thousands of years of alcohol consumption to weed out the alcohol vulnerable as old world races had.

But oddly enough the discovery of america also impacted europe hard via alchohol use. The new food crops we got from the Indians:potatoes, and corn, could be turned into new forms of booze that never before existed in the old world.

The famous printmaker, Hogarth, portrayed the latest 'drug scourge' sweeping britian in his time: whiskey.

He portrayed a thriving town of shop keepers and tradesman- all pausing to enjoy the native british beers and ales before going back to productive work.

In the next frame the town is in ruins - woman are allowing babies to fall out of windows, and all of the men are passed out drunk on the streets -the infrastructure is collapsing- because of the 1700s' equivalent of crack cocaine- whiskey- has come to town!

I can't stand these commercial spiced 'dark' Rums like Captain Morgan's, or the fact that most white rum sold is overproof, without being labeled as such.

As far as I'm concerned there are three types of rum: Navy, red/golden, and white.

If you want to mix, try white that is is not overproof, Wray and Nephew is a good company, they sell overproof (labelled) and standard white. Alternatively a light red rum.

Matured red rum is nice with ice, and a slice of lime.

There is a Jamaican fire water (technically not allowed to be classified as rum) called John Crow Batty (translated "Gay Vulture"), this is a banned import in most countries.

This list is interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_co ... onsumption

Uganda 10.93
Australia 9.89
Grenada 9.85
Nigeria 9.78
Guyana 7.50
South Africa 6.96
Sierra Leone 6.72
Barbados 6.41
Trinidad and Tobago 5.78
Botswana 4.96
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 4.94
Zimbabwe 4.08
Jamaica 3.50
Cook Islands 3.20
Gambia 2.40
Zambia 2.35
Ghana 1.47
Malawi 1.24

I don't think India and Indonesia have very much violence, but they don't consume very much alcohol. It's probably because radical Islam is likely to lead to violence, not the lack of alcohol.

Alcohol consumption seems to gravitate toward the temperate zone, and away from the equator. Uganda is high in elevation and is not as hot as its equatorial neighbors. But that still leaves Nigeria as a mystery. They do drink in the Congo, and in Brazil, but not as much as in either south africa or in Argentina to the south, nor as much as europeans, russians and americans do to the north.

The swath of islamic countries that stretch from morrocco to pakistan are almost white on the map. But so is India,burma and Bhutan (mostly nonmuslim).

The list shows that Israel is much higher than its muslim nieghbors (but oddly its lower than Bahrain), but even Israel's rate is tiny compared to European countries, and the USA.

Apparently folks in colder places like to knock it back more than folks in the tropics. And maybe there is something to the above suggestion that desert dehydration is a factor.

Not all of these figures are reliable anyway.

First because not all countries have the inclination or the resources to carry out the surveys, and also countries rarely record these things in the same way.

People just say that all Muslims are violent because they're racist. The Muslims on the news are terribly evil, but that doesn't mean that all or even most Muslims are!