British people tend to say driving "miles" rather than "kilometers". Your "local" pub should be within walking distance of where you live. Drinking and driving is against the law in Britain. We talk about alcohol in terms of "units" here in the UK.
Some Muslims don't drink alcohol at all. In general there seems to be a lot of misunderstanding with regards as to what alcohol actually is within the British Muslim community. The misunderstanding is due to the incorrect translation of term the "
khamr" (Arabic) to "alcohol" (English). I think that you can get "Halal" alcohol. Alcohol can be used in cooking and in a few products it isn't only for drinking.
Chezz said that he got his music biz award "locally" so I'm guessing that he didn't drive miles to get it.
I don't know how many true
Communists are left in Britain? In my experience they tend to be
atheists (no belief in God) or
humanists. I guess that they would like to get rid of the British Royal family.
The Labour Party here in the UK isn't Communist it is just left-wing Socialism. They are into Trade Unions and rights for working-class people. You get the "hard" left which is very left-wing. Then you have the "moderate" left which is more centre-ground like the Liberals. Tony Blair's "New" Labour was more moderate centre-ground.
What is strange is that a lot of the Labour Party in the UK seem to support Palestine rather than Israel. This doesn't make them Muslims though it just mean that they are pro-Islam.
I don't remember learning about the Nazi's in Germany being into Islam in World War II. They said that Adolf Hitler had Jewish blood but he wasn't a practicing Jew. There is no way that Adolf Hitler was a true Christian because he wouldn't of done the things that he did!
Adolf Hitler's religious beliefs have been a matter of debate; the wide consensus of historians consider him to have been
irreligious,
anti-Christian,
anti-clerical and
scientistic. In light of evidence such as his fierce
criticism and vocal rejection of the tenets of
Christianity, his numerous private statements to confidants denouncing Christianity as a harmful
superstition, and his strenuous efforts to
reduce the influence and independence of Christianity in Germany after he came to power! Hitler's major academic biographers conclude that he was
irreligious and an
opponent of Christianity. Historian
Laurence Rees found no evidence that "Hitler, in his personal life, ever expressed belief in the basic tenets of the Christian church". See link:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Adolf_Hitler
The full quote from the guy who was maybe the father of Communism and who was ethnically Jewish
Karl Marx translates as: "
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the
opium of the people".