Posted on 11/10/2003 2:28:05 PM PST by swarthyguy
Tipplers in Jammu and Kashmir risk losing their ears for drinking during Ramzan.
That's what happened to Ghulam Rasool Lone, who was found to be indulging in liquor during the Muslim holy month of fasting.
Late Sunday, a group of unidentified persons barged into Lone's house in Naidihal village near Bandipore town, 40 km from here, dragged him out and slashed both his ears.
"He was taken some distance from his house. The attackers used a sharp instrument and chopped off his left earlobe while his right earlobe was partially knifed. He was profusely bleeding and unconscious when we shifted him to hospital," said a police officer.
Police said Lone was attacked because he was a habitual drinker and not because he was an informer for the security forces.
"Lone did not act as an informer for the security forces. He was attacked because he was a habitual boozer. He would often come home in a drunken state and start shouting," said a neighbour. Lone's defiance of Islam's ban on alcohol, and that too during Ramzan, appears to have evoked the wrath of his attackers, the police said.
One would think they would be worried about their ultimate fate under a Muslim state with Sharia Law. These people are actually doing the very things they claim Christian fundamentalists want to do - but really don't, and aren't.
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