Muslims have been very successfull in prohibiton of all kinds of drugs and alcohol since 15 centuries. Compare this with the failed American Prohibition. There are more factors at play than what the law says. What do you believe will happen if you drink alcohol in secret, away from the eyes of the State? Muslims believe this will have consequences in afterlife. Atheists don't. Many Christians believe they'll be saved and forgiven by God as long as they are Christian.
> A 2012 study suggested that belief in hell decreases crime rates, while belief in heaven increases them, and indicated that these correlations were stronger than other correlates like national wealth or income inequality.
I live in Turkey, probably the most heavily and forcefully secularized muslim country in the world. (Ataturk killed half a million people for his secular reforms, Islamic alphabet got abolished, European dress code literally became law, religious clothing got prohibited, religion schools closed, scholars executed & prosecuted and Islamic prayer call was banned for 18 years).
It's free to drink here, but drugs are banned. Only a very small minority drinks alcohol in my region, I have no relatives I know of that ever drank. Drugs/weed/marijuana are horrible things no one ever wants in my entire social circle, I don't think I have ever seen a user of such substances in my entire life IRL. Western and some coastal cities drink more and there's more drug activity too (they're less religious too).
From here, it’s hilarious to see Westerners thinking prohibition is impossible and preaching against it.
Dogmatic indoctrination is the worst draconian measure.
If you need to put the fear of eternal torture into people's mind through a whole clerical power structure to have the desired effect I don't even know what are we talking about.
Science dogmatically accepts some basic human intuitions and bases itself upon them while rejecting others. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNlEtBZxML8 for more info on this. Modern education is indoctrination only with a different set of beliefs. The torture is not eternal in the case of sinning in Islam. Yes, Islam puts the fear of eternal torture into some non-muslims minds for their betterment, for them to be muslim and thus be saved from it. Yet ask millions in the west converting to Islam every single year, they'll tell you they converted because Islam makes actual sense (compatible with human intutitions) while modernity didn't. Islam works with a single person as well as millions, and there's no clerical power structure as per in Christianity. Islam is the single thing ever worked in mass-scale prevention of drugs and alcohol because it's true. Not even Christianity (which Muslims believe has malformed and become too clerical) was able to achieve it, even though alcohol was seen as a sin in many Christian times and places.
> A 2012 study suggested that belief in hell decreases crime rates, while belief in heaven increases them, and indicated that these correlations were stronger than other correlates like national wealth or income inequality.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlates_of_crime
I live in Turkey, probably the most heavily and forcefully secularized muslim country in the world. (Ataturk killed half a million people for his secular reforms, Islamic alphabet got abolished, European dress code literally became law, religious clothing got prohibited, religion schools closed, scholars executed & prosecuted and Islamic prayer call was banned for 18 years).
It's free to drink here, but drugs are banned. Only a very small minority drinks alcohol in my region, I have no relatives I know of that ever drank. Drugs/weed/marijuana are horrible things no one ever wants in my entire social circle, I don't think I have ever seen a user of such substances in my entire life IRL. Western and some coastal cities drink more and there's more drug activity too (they're less religious too).
From here, it’s hilarious to see Westerners thinking prohibition is impossible and preaching against it.