Sheikh Ahmad Kutty, a senior lecturer and Islamic scholar at the Islamic Institute of Toronto, Ontario, Canada , states: “As a Muslim doctor if one can be excused on religious grounds not to administer alcohol, then one must never administer the same; if, however, the ethics of your profession does not provide such an exception on religious grounds, then doctors in such situations may be excused in administering it if they were to do so only to non-Muslim patients.“