WAR criminal President Omer Hassan Al-Bashir has warned that his government will have zero tolerance for those who drink or deal in alcoholic drinks, saying they will be whipped under Islamic sharia laws.
The grumpy Muslim tyrant warned:
Anybody who drinks alcohol, we lash them. Anybody who makes alcohol, we lash them. Anybody who sells alcohol, we lash them. I don’t care about the UN or human rights organisations.
President Omar Hassan al-Bashir
According to this report, North Sudan is currently ruled under Islamic law which prohibits drinking, among other things, even though a local homemade brand of alcohol is widely consumed privately.
During most of Sudan’s post independence history drinking was socially acceptable.
In 1976 late president Jaafar Nimeiri ordered his ministers and legislators either to give up alcoholic drinks or resign in a letter he also addressed to university professors, senior army officers, ambassador and media figures. Nimeiri himself was also known to be a drinker.
Human rights groups have complained about lashing sentences handed out against women caught brewing alcohol in Khartoum, many of them from the non-Muslim south.
Last year the Nigerian football striker Stephen Worgu, who played for Sudan’s premier league Al-Merreikh club, was sentenced to 40 lashes for drinking alcohol though it is not clear if the sentence was carried out.
The Public Order Police (POP), responsible for enforcing the Islamic law, frequently crack down on breaches of laws relating to decency and maintaining the peace. They came into the spotlight after last year’s high-profile conviction of Sudanese UN official Lubna Hussein, who was briefly jailed for wearing trousers in public.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
March 29th, 2010 at 11:08 am
This will put a whole new meaning to “Going out to get lashed”.
March 29th, 2010 at 1:06 pm
You’d think in a country that has been at war for the last 50 years, that has famine, disease and human slaughter, would have better things to worry about than stupid islamic “laws”
March 29th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
@Angela_K No, no, you don’t understand. They have to get their priorities right and flaying women for making some alcohol is a much higher priority in sharia terms than coping with starvation. That nutter doesn’t look too hungry.
March 29th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
“I don’t care about the UN or human rights organisations.”
That’s why he’s President, then.
March 29th, 2010 at 8:37 pm
Religious fools getting their priorities wrong again.
When I can be bothered, I have to make my own beer.
Where can I get a woman who’ll do it for me? The way to a mans heart is not through his stomach, it’s his bladder!
March 29th, 2010 at 11:05 pm
“The way to a mans heart is not through his stomach, it’s his bladder!”
Really? I thought it was through his chest with a sharp knife!
Sorry chaps, couldn’t resist that one.
March 30th, 2010 at 12:07 am
Angela,
Lorena Bobbitt got her husband’s attention without stabbing his heart. I wonder when he looks at his mangled grotesque hose, if he wishes that she had?
Anyway, I am a big fan of a brand of beer called “Fat Tire”. But, it not only costs too much in the stores, when I went to a store that sells supplies and recipes for making your own, I did the math and figured out it would be three times the price per volume. I said, “What the hell, are you nuts??”, and the girl at the counter said, “we cater to those who brew for the enjoyment, not cost savings”. Well, good luck with that, darling. I’ll just keep drinking my horse piss.
But, seriously, I think alcohol is far more dangerous than marijuana. One makes you daring and obnoxious, the other makes you want to eat and listen to music. But, since I’ve seen the black market side of society, and no longer choose to have any connection, I will just sit and drink my horse piss.
NeoWolfe
March 30th, 2010 at 8:37 am
Just to set the record straight, NeoWolfe, surgeons actually did a pretty good job of reuniting John Wayne Bobbitt with the severed part of his dick – so good in fact that he went on to star in two porno movies: John Wayne Bobbitt: Uncut and Frankenpenis.
DON’T click on this link if you’re squeamish.
March 31st, 2010 at 7:17 am
Yeah, Barry D.,
They did excelent work, but he was in porno movies as a freik act, not as a star of the the show. It’s not the doctor’s fault, because he never ever had the sausage to be the star, even before his wife sawed it off. I’d bet he still can’t feel the head of his dick with a tongue under the knobs. Big disadvantage.
NeoWolfe
Oh yeah, I went there.