As the title states. Would an Islamic world that openly eats pork and consumes alcohol have a better perception in the West?
As the title states. Would an Islamic world that openly eats pork and consumes alcohol have a better perception in the West?
Islam would be the state religion of Russia, possibly. "Drink is the joy of the Russian" after all...![]()
I don't know about current perception but back in the day Islam ruined the indigenous wine industries in the Middle East. Without the general prohibition on alcohol (I know there are many exceptions) the indigenous ME varietals would most lkely still flourish and might even be rival to French varietals today.
Algerian wine was quite reknowned under French rule.I've always been very interested to see the sort of alcohol and wine the Middle East and North Africa might have produced without Islam. Apparently Persia in particular had very good wine (which is probably part of the reason why the Syrah grape is also known as Shiraz). It would also have produced a much larger market globally for wine to make up for the increased production of wine in Islamic countries.
Seconded Tanc.
Mormons now have millions of worshippers in America, despite ban on alcohol and tea. have more stringent requirement will help faith spread, while more wishy-washy faith would not atttract anyone. successful faith need to make demand on their worshipper, create camaderie and making distinction with outsider. special dietary requirement cause faithful to eat together, creating connection inside and discourage connection with disbeliever, it also force worshipper to make worldly sacrifice and cause admiration from outsiders.
Then again, depends on the type of requirement. Requiring circumcision to convert to Christianity was almost immediately thrown out the window.
- Jews have much stricter dietary restrictions, and have positive perception in most Western countries.
Uh, sorry, but this is patently untrue. It's definitely not because of kosher law, but Jews face widespread persecution throughout the West, to this day.
In the US, job discrimination is nonexistent and incomes are high; in Europe it's more uneven, but the basic picture ("Jews are a subset of white people") holds.
It's weird how this has been the case for so long in European history. You'd think there would have been some sort of strife, but it's been smooth sailing.