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WillowTheWhisp · 10-03-2008, 17:13

I think there are two issues here - or maybe three.

First of all it may very well be true that 90% of the world's heroine is produced in a Muslim country but does that automatically mean that drug production is approved of by Islam. (look at our country's record of teenage pregnancies - is that approved of by the Church of England?)

Secondly (which is connected to the first point) if people did not use drugs then there would be no demand for them - but perhaps that should be more directed to the drug pushers who get people hooked in the first place.

BUT the main point at issue here as far as I can see from the opening post as I did not see the story on 5 Live, is that the mother of a girl who died as the result of a drugs overdose has objected to the use of the image of her dead body for a purpose which she did not authorise. I would agree with her. She permitted the use of that image in order to get across to other drug users the danger of something which could result in them ending up the same. She did not authorise it for use in a campaign against Islam.

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WillowTheWhisp Resident Waffler Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Accrington, Hyndburn Posts: 18,142 Blog Entries: 14 Liked: 14 times Rep Power: 1062	Re: Mother condemns BNP's heroin leaflet I think there are two issues here - or maybe three. First of all it may very well be true that 90% of the world's heroine is produced in a Muslim country but does that automatically mean that drug production is approved of by Islam. (look at our country's record of teenage pregnancies - is that approved of by the Church of England?) Secondly (which is connected to the first point) if people did not use drugs then there would be no demand for them - but perhaps that should be more directed to the drug pushers who get people hooked in the first place. BUT the main point at issue here as far as I can see from the opening post as I did not see the story on 5 Live, is that the mother of a girl who died as the result of a drugs overdose has objected to the use of the image of her dead body for a purpose which she did not authorise. I would agree with her. She permitted the use of that image in order to get across to other drug users the danger of something which could result in them ending up the same. She did not authorise it for use in a campaign against Islam. __________________