The Worldwide Religion News website reports today (March 26, 2010) that the president of Sudan, Omer Hassan Al-Bashir, warned that his government will have zero tolerance for those who drink or deal in alcohol drinks, saying they will be whipped under the Islamic Shari'a law.
"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 organizations," Bashir told a gathering of Sufi sect in the capital's suburb of Um Dawaban.
North Sudan is currently ruled under Islamic law which prohibits drinking, even though a local homemade brand of alcohol is widely consumed privately.
During most of Sudan's post-independence history, drinking was socially acceptable.
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