Why can't muslims drink alcohol?

Muslims do not drink alcohol because Islam prohibits it entirely. The source article opens not with theology but with evidence of harm: in Russia two-thirds of men were found to die drunk, and in the United States alcohol was implicated in a large share of accidents, violence and early death. A Muslim leader in Russia observes that one can be fully Russian without vodka, and that most of the country’s social problems trace back to drink. Islam’s position is that intoxicants cloud the mind God gave us, destroy families and health, and open the door to every other sin, so the religion closes that door completely rather than asking people to manage it. The prohibition applies to every intoxicant, not only alcohol. The two-part article “Alcohol: The Devil’s Deadly Disease” lays out the evidence and the Islamic ruling.