In Judaism likewise, of course, Tunesmith. And there is an ambivalence about it in Islam: wine is highly praised in the work of the famous "Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet, Omar Khayyam, who is widely considered to be one of the most influential scientists of all time... Born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran also known as Persia, at a young age he moved to Samarkand and obtained his education there. Afterwards he moved to Bukhara and became established as one of the major mathematicians and astronomers of the Islamic Golden Age" Wikipedia.

He wrote the famous Rubaiyyat*, so memorably translated [or paraphrased] into English by Fitzgerald, chockful of the delights of "the grape".

So the views of thse Sharia-embracers, with their beheadings & stonings & floggings for possessing alcohol, are not even universal within their Faith.

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*"a collection of Ruba'i (a form of Persian poetry") - Wiki