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It's starting folks!...I am not here to incite racial or cultural intolerance. I simply wish to alert a wave of violence that is no doubt going to rear its ugly head as the weeks and months go by...against their own kind. Imagine how an infedel or non-Muslim is regarded.
This young man whose home was broken into in the middle of the night, now fears for his life and is witholding further information from authorities....Sorry, but this stuff really gets to me. I am furious, along with members of many Australian Muslims, that anyone dares to commit such practices in a non-Muslim country.
Man bailed over 'sharia law' lashing
Updated July 19, 2011 16:51:38
Police say the ordeal lasted 30 minutes.
Map: Silverwater A 20-year-old man accused of whipping a Sydney man 40 times as part of an alleged sharia law punishment for drinking alcohol has been granted bail.
Police say the 31-year-old victim woke to find four bearded men in his bedroom at Silverwater, in the city's west, about 1:00am (AEST) on Sunday.
The men allegedly held him down on his bed and lashed him with a cable 40 times during the 30-minute ordeal.
The victim has told police he was being punished under sharia law for drinking alcohol.
Detectives arrested the 20-year-old man at his Auburn home last night.
He has been charged with aggravated break and enter as well as maliciously inflicting actual bodily harm - a sentence which carries a maximum jail term of 20 years.
The man faced Burwood Local Court today.
The police prosecutor opposed bail, saying the 20-year-old's actions shows he has no respect for the laws of the state.
But the man's solicitor, Tunc Ozen, said his client was "a person of prior good character" and should be granted bail.
"He does not pose a threat to the community," he said.
Magistrate Tim Keddy said although the 20-year-old's charges were "extremely serious and violent" he believed strict conditional bail was warranted.
He ordered the man to remain at home between 8:00pm and 7:00am and not to leave the residence without his mother or father.
He was also told to surrender his passport and instructed not to visit any airports or other points of departure from Australia.
This afternoon, police charged a second man over the alleged lashing.
The 43-year-old will appear in Burwood Local Court tomorrow.
In the search for the other attackers, police say officers were assaulted by a 16-year-old boy during a search of another Auburn home.
The teenager has been ordered to face court next month charged with assault, resisting arrest and hindering police.
Police say they are still looking for the other attackers.
Representatives of Sydney's Muslim community have condemned the alleged lashing attack.
ABC/AAP