Two Christian men moved the Federal Shariat Court on Saturday against the provision of permits to Christians for selling and consuming alcohol, calling it a stigma on Christianity.
Petitioners Naseem Masih and Aslam Pervaiz Sahotra said that like Muslims, Christians were not allowed to use intoxicants. The view that Christians used liquor as part of religious ceremonies was a blight on Christianity, they said.
The petitioners alleged that the Christian license holders mostly sold liquor to Muslims but brought a bad name to Christianity. They claimed that the sale of liquor increases around Islamic festivals, a clear indication that these license holders supply it to Muslims.
The petitioners submitted that the Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order IV of 1979 prohibited the manufacturing, possession, sale, export and transport of all kinds of intoxicants, the violation of which would entail punishment. According to Article-4 of the Order, the prohibition would not apply to non-Muslim foreigners or non-Muslim citizens. They could posses a reasonable quantity of intoxicating liquor for the purpose of using it as a part of religious ceremonies, the Order stated.
In view of the prohibition order, the Punjab government had introduced the Punjab Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Rules 1979, under which the Excise and Taxation Department’s director general could issue licences to non-Muslims.
The petitioners said that Christians who were issued licences did not only sell liquor to members of their own community.
The petitioners submitted that according to the Order, licences should only be issued to persons representing an institution, not individuals.
They said all holy books forbid the use of intoxicants. “When holy books do not allow their followers to use liquor, how can one person allow another its use by quoting law?” asked the petitioners.
They said the Excise and Taxation Department was using the order for its own nefarious purposes. If the policy to issue licences to Christians was not declared illegal and unlawful, the petitioners asserted, many Christians would suffer irreparable loss and injury.
They said the issuance of licences to individuals not only promoted social degradation but also went against the Holy Bible’s teachings. They prayed the court to declare the provision of Article-17 of the Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order 4 of 1979 and Rule-12 of the Punjab Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Rules 1979 illegal.
Why?
You Moslems should live your own lives and leave others to live theirs.
Why do you have to be such nasty people.
الآية 66_67 من سورة النحل
{ وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِي ٱلأَنْعَامِ لَعِبْرَةً نُّسْقِيكُمْ مِّمَّا فِي بُطُونِهِ مِن بَيْنِ فَرْثٍ وَدَمٍ لَّبَناً خَالِصاً سَآئِغاً لِلشَّارِبِينَ }{ وَمِن ثَمَرَاتِ ٱلنَّخِيلِ وَٱلأَعْنَابِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِنْهُ سَكَراً وَرِزْقاً حَسَناً إِنَّ فِي ذٰلِكَ لآيَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ
Why do you Moslems have to enforce you skewed way of life on others.
Live your own lives and leave us alone. Nasty people that you are!
makes perfect sens
I agree
not forcing nothing to any one. its the way of proprophet issa pbuh.
if you are true Christian. you should be supporting it not opposing. shame on you Christians so called.
in fact the koran permits making and selling wine or alcohol from grapes and dates
الآية 66_67 من سورة النحل
{ وَإِنَّ لَكُمْ فِي ٱلأَنْعَامِ لَعِبْرَةً نُّسْقِيكُمْ مِّمَّا فِي بُطُونِهِ مِن بَيْنِ فَرْثٍ وَدَمٍ لَّبَناً خَالِصاً سَآئِغاً لِلشَّارِبِينَ }{ وَمِن ثَمَرَاتِ ٱلنَّخِيلِ وَٱلأَعْنَابِ تَتَّخِذُونَ مِنْهُ سَكَراً وَرِزْقاً حَسَناً إِنَّ فِي ذٰلِكَ لآيَةً لِّقَوْمٍ يَعْقِلُونَ
lol man. You didn't even bother to read the news. The petition was moved by two christians not muslims.
Good
Thanks God, they realized that.
yes
A true muslim and a true christian will NOT drink alcohol even if he is surrounded with it… thats the beauty of "restraint" which is what the two religions teach us.. Why ban it ? stupid idea !
I agree
More" muslim" buy liquor via Christians boot leggers in here.
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