Holy Cow! Haryana CM says 'Muslims can live in India but must stop eating beef'

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has told The Indian Express that Muslims can live in the country but they will have to give up eating beef because the cow is about faith, not food.

Speaking to the newspaper, RSS leaning Khattar spoke at length about the Dadri lynching and said it was wrong and the result of a “misunderstanding.”

On the night of September 28, Akhlaq Saifi, 52, was clobbered to death right outside his house in Dadri, Uttar Pradesh, because he allegedly had beef stored in his refrigerator. This set off national outrage and political parties have jumped into the mud fight. Saifi is dead and gone, buffaloes continue to be slaughtered in most states and India is the second largest exporter of beef in the world, behind only Brazil.

Cow slaughter in Haryana is a punishable with a 10-year jail term, beef-eating carries a five year prison term.

“They can be Muslim even after they stop eating beef, can’t they? It is written nowhere that Muslims have to eat beef, not is it written anywhere in Christianity that they have to eat beef,” Khattar told The Indian Express.

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