Opposition education spokesman Andrew Stoner said the government must cast a close eye over the school and what it may teach.And so diversity morphs into the security state. It can't last.
A GROUP of residents who live on and around Gurner Avenue in Austral will fight the council over a new proposal for an Islamic school to be built on the street.Those 46 percenters get around.
The group says it is opposed to the school for numerous reasons, but the main one is that members don't believe the rural area is appropriate for such a large development.
The proposed school will accommodate 600 primary and high school students and offer a car park, library, hall and sporting fields.
Already punch drunk from their battle to stop mining in the valley they fear Dooralong Lodge their "community meeting place" will be closed and replaced by a school for Muslim and Aboriginal children...
Since news of the contract exchange broke there has been a groundswell of community opposition. More than 40 residents met at the site last week to voice their concerns.
Spokesman Warwick Benjes said they had no intention of standing by and allowing the wrong type of development at the site. "This is our community hub our meeting place and we won't stand by and see it destroyed," he said.
BOXER Anthony Mundine's rumoured interest in turning a Central Coast resort into a Muslim retreat has prompted neighbours to threaten legal action.Why do Australians keep voting for Labor and Liberal, who both permit Muslim immigration, and then almost unanimously rise up in opposition when Muslims move in next door? Please explain.
Locals yesterday vowed to fight possible plans to turn the Dooralong Valley Resort into a private hideaway for Muslims, as uncertainty about the development grew.
Since March this year Muslim students and staff at Melbourne's RMIT University have been waging a determined campaign for the return of their Prayer Room, which has been recast as a "multi-faith" centre unsuitable for practising Islam and not even open at key Prayer times.
The centre of the campaign is the Islamic Society's lunchtime Friday Prayers, which have taken the form of weekly mass protests consistently involving hundreds of people, even through the mid-year break. This is now one of the most sustained and steadfast campaigns on any campus in recent memory. And far from losing momentum, the campaign is ramping up as we enter second semester.
AUSTRALIAN Federal police have raided the office of a Sydney charity as part of an investigation into whether it channelled aid into the Palestinian territories through an Islamic organisation banned by Australia and the US for its alleged links to terrorism.
Officers raided the Lakemba office of Muslim Aid Australia yesterday morning, spending several hours inside speaking to staff.
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