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October 25, 2012 By Daniel Greenfield

Sharia law, as we’re told, is a non-issue made up by Islamophobes that will never come to the West. Certainly not the punitive kind. That would be ridiculous. Except of course that it’s already here.

All that you need to implement Sharia law is a whip and someone to wield it. As the unfortunately named Christian Martinez, a recent convert to Islam, discovered in Sydney, Australia. (Jihad Watch)

A Muslim man who was whipped 40 times for drinking alcohol was told to remember the pain next time he thought of picking up a drink, a Sydney magistrate has been told.

Zakaryah Raad, 21, Tolga Cifci, 21, Wassim Fayad, 44, and Cengiz Coskun, 22, faced Burwood Local Court today charged with lashing Christian Martinez, 31, with an electric cable as punishment under sharia for drinking alcohol.


Tolga Cifci attempts to hide his face while leaving Burwood Local Court after facing charges relating to whipping Christian Martinez with electrical wire.



The court heard Fayad, also known as Fadi Alemaddin, carried out the alleged whipping while the three other men held Mr Martinez down on his bed.

Fayad had become Mr Martinez’s “spiritual leader” after he converted to Islam before the alleged incident, prosecutor Sevinch Morkaya said.

Police told a Sydney court Fayad had planned the attack on Mr. Martinez as a “punishment in accordance with his religious beliefs and the continuation of his standing with his community.”

Fayad followed the preaching of an outspoken cleric and said Al Qaeda leader Bin Laden was a “solider of God” who “died a martyr and... is now in paradise” after being killed by US forces in May, the Sydney Morning Herald said.

Sharia. It doesn’t have to be very fancy. It can be as simple as four men and an electrical cable. And the Koran. Underneath the facade of courts and judges, this is what it comes down to. Violence.