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Originally posted by Icabod:
Recall a story of some London hotels decide to profit from this. They pointed out that room service charges for booze could instead show stamps being purchased. After that the royalty spend tens of thousands on "stamps."

They tip the lodge staff with gold Rolex watches.

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Allah cannot see them when they are in the West. Especially in Vegas

Apparently Allah cannot get across the causeway to Bahrain either. Or as one Royal Saudi Air Force officer laughingly told me while drinking whiskey at The Warbler in Bahrain: "The eyes of Allah cannot see beyond the borders of Saudi Arabia."

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Originally posted by Tailhook 84:

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Originally posted by HayesGreener:
Allah cannot see them when they are in the West. Especially in Vegas

Apparently Allah cannot get across the causeway to Bahrain either. Or as one Royal Saudi Air Force officer laughingly told me while drinking whiskey at The Warbler in Bahrain: "The eyes of Allah cannot see beyond the borders of Saudi Arabia."

Bahrain is the spot....Vegas in the ME, the amount of weekend traffic out of Kuwait City and Saudi is staggering.

We were once doing a MEDCAP in a small village the elder invited us in for tea....he whipped out a bottle of Jim Beam "metal roof, Allah can't see"

whatever...it's better than tea

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by FishOn:
But it is written that alcohol is forbidden!

They are all sleazy MFers.

So? Look at all the acts that are forbidden to other religions and cultures.

Let him who is without sin cast the first stone.

The difference is that of force. Islamic rules are enforced with the whip, stone, and sword. Christian rules aren't enforced by any state or religious leader, it is up to the practitioners to follow them or not. Christian religious leaders, notably Jesus, also separated the Church from government and never forced anyone to do anything.

Compelling adherence to rules at the tip of a sword with the person holding the sword breaking them, is a bit beyond mere hypocrisy.

This is what resulted in the "Sunni awakening" in Iraq, the tangos took over and instituted their own government in Al Anbar province, the people were horrified at the hypocrisy in action and finally had enough.