Writing in the Washington Post, Khaled Diab offers his guide to drinking alcohol during Ramadan for secular Muslims. While alcohol is considered prohibited by the majority of Muslims, a significant minority of Muslims do consume it, and interestingly, a number of Muslim-majority countries top the global rankings for alcohol consumption, meaning Muslims living in them often outdrink their Western counterparts.
30 Apr 2012 London Metropolitan University is one of the most Muslim populated universities in Britain. Around 20 per cent of the students of the university are Muslims, thus it has an important place in debates surrounding British Muslims. The university attracted considerable public attention in 2006 when the police raided portable buildings used by…
25 February 2011 A Muslim supermarket employee in Germany was sacked when he refused on religious grounds to stock shelves with bottles of alcohol. Now the country’s highest labor court has ruled that the man’s objection was justified. It’s not the first time a Muslim worker in Germany has gone to court over the right…
Taner Tabak has created a 0% alcohol wine which has passed the Halal Quality Control (HQC) test and received a certificate as halal wine. Wereld Journalisten reports that Tabak managed to make the alcohol-free wine in cooperation with a German company through a new technical process, for which a patent is pending.
A photograph hanging in Bunyamin Turksoy’s corner office shows the founder of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, with a broad smile on his face — and a glass of cloudy white Raki liquor in his hand. It’s inspiration for Turksoy, a German-Turkish entrepreneur who has come out with a new brand of beer called Bey….
