UK: Muslim preacher calls for people who get drunk to be flogged

Muslim preacher Anjem Choudary has called for people who get drunk to be flogged.

The lawyer, who recently praised the Mumbai terror attacks, said anyone becoming intoxicated by alcohol should be given 40 lashes in public. He claimed alcohol was "the root of all evil".

The 41-year-old made the remarks on his website Islam4UK, which argues that Britain should become an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law....

He wrote: "Under Islam, all harmful intoxicants will be banned unequivocally, regardless of their classification or their profitability in retail marketing.

"The Final Messenger Muhammad condemned the manufacturing, transporting, retailing and consuming of alcoholic beverages over 1,400 years ago and equated it with being one of the roots of all evils.

"Islam additionally imposes 40 lashes in public for deliberate intoxication, followed by 80 lashes in public if repeated for a second time."

Mr Choudary argued that alcohol should be "removed from society".

He also wrote that everything would be "sound" and "put right" if Sharia law was introduced in the UK, adding: "Islam is undeniably the only real solution for Britain's problems."

It is not the only real solution, but it is going to be a reality if these idiots don't wake up and deport or jail people like this. Better yet someone needs to kill him. Let him be a martyr and go hang out with allah and Old Mo.