I once sat up drinking with a Yemenese pilot in a hotel in Cairo ater 3 weeks in the desert. Pint for pint with me. Every 5 mins he would mention how devout he was blah blah blah. Alah this, Not a terrorist that. Fine enough boy but less of the religious mumbo jumbo wouldnt have went a miss.
At the end of the day. Hes was a hypocrite as he clearly liked to party. But scarily when we said our "s'laters" at 3am he told me he was flying at 9am. We were both worse for wear. Then he came out with this beauty. "alah will take care of me" after i gave him a look of "flying in 6 hours and you are pished, what the f@ck?". Thank f@ck i was flying to Amsterdam at 11am.
I have worked with a heap of muslims over the years and a good few like the sauce. But my generation. None a generation above. Ive had beers in Angola with Egyptians and Tunisians on the way home and have been told to keep it schtum with the others at work as of they were embarrasments