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...many devotees, khat is a social lubricant on a par with coffee or alcohol in the West. Indeed, because chewing the leaf isn't forbidden by Islam, "khat is alcohol for Muslims," says Yahya Amma, the head merchant at the Agriculture Suq, one of the largest khat markets in the city. "You can chew it and still go to prayers." The leaf's energy-boosting and hunger-numbing properties help university students focus on their homework, allows underpaid laborers to work without meals and, according to local lore, offers the same help to impotent men that Westerners seek in Viagra...
...Kartika, 32, had steeled herself to her punishment after having pleaded guilty to consuming alcohol while at a resort in 2007. On Monday morning, she donned an Islamic headscarf, planted a kiss on the cheek of her 5-year-old daughter and got into a van to make the 270-km journey to a women's prison outside the capital of Kuala Lumpur. Instead, the van pulled over after just 200 m while officials from the Prisons Department, the Attorney General's chambers and the Islamic courts argued over the case. In the end, a decision was made to defer...
...Malaysia operates a dual-track legal system in which Muslims are bound by Shari'a law for certain issues while non-Muslims are processed through civil courts. While alcohol consumption is illegal for Muslims according to Shari'a law, many people of the Islamic faith in Malaysia do drink, and prosecution for such a crime is rare. Perhaps fearing a backlash from Islamic officials, Kartika lodged a police report on Monday saying she is not a party to the decision to postpone the caning. "We don't want to be blamed later," she said, "[by people who might say] that...
This may explain why participants in one of Strayer's simulator studies were faster to brake and caused fewer crashes when they had a .08% blood-alcohol content than while sober and talking on a cell phone...
Shouldn't those who leech off our current health-care system with preventable illnesses caused by nongenetic obesity, smoking and alcohol abuse have to pay more than those of us who understand the painfully simple concepts of good health and prevention? Thaddeus Labhart, BURNS...