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**nicandal**

wrote:
Be suspicious of any Islamic types ordering alcoholic drinks on a
flight. Their religion forbids drinking, and alcohol can prove quite
flammable. But will the airlines stop serving it?

Cori

Heh heh. Cori, what would you like the airlines to do - really,
practically do - with this piece of "knowledge"? Islam does not require
its followers to carry an ID card, no more than do all those who say
they are Muslims shun all alcohol, no more can an airline reasonably
discriminate between who is allowed alcohol and who is not on any kind
of religious grounds for that would be them imposing their
interpretation of a religion upon their passengers. Would you like them
to stop serving pork to "Jewish types" too? If you find this ridiculous
then you don't understand.

I suspect the airlines don't serve alcohol in any quantity such that it
is particularly hazardous already. I doubt anyone gets the bottle left
with them.

al