Do you consider Beer as light beverage or an alcoholic Drink?

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A can of carlsberg beer (320ml) has only 5% alcohol. Do you consider this as a light beverage more like a can of shandy or an alcoholic drink? Many people drink chilled beer to quench their thirst. Drinking a can or two of beer will not send anyone to fly off their kungfu power. Not me at least as I do drink sometimes to entertain my regulars in my pub. Whipping for drinking beers just doesn't register right in my thinking. It just come to my mind when I read a sad story of a muslim model who will be canned for drinking beer. It is the top story in our local papers today. She is sentenced to six strokes of cane after pleading guilty to drinking beer at a hotel nightclub last year. She will be the first woman to be canned under the Islamic law in Malaysia, a moderate muslim majority country where the landmark case has caused a national sensation. This unprecedented canning will damage Malaysia's international standing as a progressive and moderate islamic country. I would not debate the issue here as it is more of religious issue than a legal issue as Malaysia, a multiracial country with large chinese and indian communities, has a dual track legal system and sharia courts can try muslims for religious and moral offence. This is cruel and degrading punishment. Don't you feel so?