`All I wanted to add to his page were his claims about Alcohol which he has used in his past .  This is my post that was censored.   Choudary has said that anyone becoming intoxicated by alcohol should be given 40 lashes in public. He claimed alcohol was ``the root of all evil” and that ``Islam additionally imposes 40 lashes in public for deliberate intoxication, followed by 80 lashes in public if repeated for a second time.”.`