[enentique]

Salaam

Interesting analysis:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph...356%7C38317162

Wassalam

[Mypepraipse]

Salaam

Interesting analysis:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/graph...356%7C38317162

Wassalam

Two very important caveats on this data.

I was reading through the WHO report which is one of the data sources:

The consumption of unrecorded alcohol (see Box 4) is a signifi cant issue in all WHO
regions, and poses a diffi cult dimension for measuring the true nature of global alcohol
consumption.

The other caveat is:

Notably, the recorded APC data were adjusted for 22 countries where the number of tourists was at least the number of inhabitants (see Appendix IV for methodology).

Turkey has nearly 32 million tourists per year(6th most popular tourist destination in the world) visiting and the APC data thus includes its tourists people. A significant percentage of the figure thus reflects tourist related alcohol consumption.

These figures are difficult to assess for reliability. For example if you take the WHO report it gives a figure which reflects nearly 70 million more litres of alcohol consumed for turkey. So this data are very unreliable because it depends how much unrecorded consumption is attributed to the total APC and you can see the wide fluctuance in different data analysis. The WHO attributes a large unrecorded consumption for turkey which I think is flawed as Alcohol is widely available in turkey.

I think the more Islamic turkey gets the more its APC will fall and inshAllah this is happening every year.

Another interesting article

http://www.turkishmuse.com/2011/01/w...in-turkey.html

Lets pray for turkey and turks that indeed if they do consume alcohol more compared to other muslim nations that Allah rid their society of this evil and increase them in their taqwa for very soon they will have the leadership of the Islamic world back in their responsibility.

[Konidurase]

I heard someone say that if all the land and resources used in the growing, production and making of alcohol was shifted over to food production...it would prevent starvation in the whole world. And Zakaat if it was taken from all the Muslims and given to the right people would stamp out poverty globally (providing riba was stopped).

[Q0KmoR8K]

I heard someone say that if all the land and resources used in the growing, production and making of alcohol was shifted over to food production...it would prevent starvation in the whole world. And Zakaat if it was taken from all the Muslims and given to the right people would stamp out poverty globally (providing riba was stopped).

Someone actually mentioned it here (SF) a few months back, that if just 2% is taken from those who are eligible to pay zakat and distributed to the recipients as outlined by the fiqh, the poverty problem world wide can be solved.

Allahu A'lam.