Maybe Islam is superior–

Imagine for a moment what would have transpired if the millions of Egyptian protesters had been drinking. How much of the slaughter in Paris in the French revolution was wine-aided? The massacres of the Spanish Republic (if you read For Whom the Bell Tolls) were driven by liquor. The murderous Crusaders — Wassail! Yes I thirst for beer in Cairo, and the only way you’ll get my Zinfandel is to pry it from my cold dead hands. But let us acknowledge that part of the political genius of the revolution, its unbelievable orderliness, was sobriety.