Notes on Church-State Affairs

Mehreen Faruqi became the first Muslim to sit in a legislature in Australia. She was appointed to replace Green representative Cate Faehrmaann in the upper house in New South Wales. She rejected comments by the Islamic Friendship Association that she would have trouble reconciling her faith and her stance in favor of marriage equality. Faruqi says she sees no role for religion in government. An Australian court convicted four Muslim men, Zakaryah Raad, Tolga Cifci, Wassim Fayad, and Cengiz Coskun, of assault. The four had whipped Christian Martinez, a convert to Islam, forty times with a cable as punishment under Sharia law for drinking alcohol and taking drugs. Martinez had called Fayad, his spiritual leader, asking for help to get off drugs and alcohol, but Fayaz said that he needed to feel pain in order not to want drugs and alcohol again. The judge, Brian Maloney, cited the imam of the Omar mosque in Auburn, saying that the community and imams do not approve of whippings.

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