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Islamic College threatens to expel students over parent protests in Adelaide

The World Today By Natalie Whiting

Updated 6 minutes ago

Blacked out letter from Islamic College of South Australia
Photo: A letter from the Islamic College of South Australia threatening to terminate students' enrolments. (Supplied)

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Parents demonstrating outside a controversial Islamic college in Adelaide have received letters saying their children will be expelled because of their actions.

The parents have been protesting outside the school gates for months about how the school is being run.

Bayan Mohamed, who has three children at the school, said he and fellow protestors had a right to demonstrate.

"We have concerns and issues in regard to how the school is run," Mr Mohamed said.

"The board said there is no issue. There is no concern and they are not ready to meet us.

"So we decided to protest, because this is the only way to voice our concerns and opinion in regard to the school."

He has now received a letter saying his children are at risk of being expelled.

It said: "The college acknowledges the right of all parents to express concerns (whether real or perceived) about the operation of the college ... however, your continued participation in the protests outside the gates of the college go well beyond this right."

The letter said the protests were interrupting the running of the school.

"It is incumbent on all members of the community to respect and support the rights of others, including allowing students and parents to attend and participate in the life of the college without harassment or disruption," it said.

Mr Mohamed said he knew of five other families who had also received letters.

About 20 parents protested outside the school today.

"To show them that there is nothing wrong with what we are doing and we are not going to compromise our rights," Mr Mohamed said.

Protest at Islamic College of SA
Photo: About 20 parents protesting outside the Islamic College of SA after receiving letters threatening their children with expulsion. (ABC News: Michael Clements)

Parents claim mismanagement is behind protests

Parents have undertaken several protests at the school this year, claiming mismanagement by the school's board had resulted in the sacking of key staff and the decline of academic standards.

It has been condemned by a senior group of SA imams who said the removal of a moderate Muslim teacher was "un-Islamic".

The way they did it [the school] is really shocking. What we have been scared of is happening, it's 'my way or the highway'.

Parent Bayan Mohamed

Imams Council of SA said it had been shocked by alleged incidents at the school, which included the expulsion of a 15-year-old student via a text message after he protested a teacher's dismissal.

In a statement at the time, the Islamic school's board chairman Farouk Khan said recent principals had left for various reasons, including retirement or due to personal circumstances.

He said a long-serving teacher had been dismissed because of a serious incident at the school but it could not be outlined for privacy reasons.

Protesting parents who received letters have been asked to attend a meeting to provide reasons why their children should not be expelled.

If not, their children's enrolment will be terminated from the end of term, which is next week.

Mr Mohamed said he was shocked by the letter.

"It's really shocking and it's signed by the principal himself," he said.

"The way they did it [the school] is really shocking. What we have been scared of is happening. It's 'my way or the highway'."

Parents also claim the school has been segregating students by gender, enforcing the wearing of head coverings by non-Muslim staff, and that one teenager student had been forced to get a haircut.

protest outside Islamic College Adelaide
Photo: Protesting parents claim the school has been segregating students by gender, enforcing the wearing of head coverings by non-Muslim female staff, and had forced one teenage student to

I don't think any self respecting leftist idiot would have a problem with this.

Where does the article talk of flogging?

This lefty wishes all religions would just die out more quickly than they are. A pox on all religion!

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:13am:

This lefty wishes all religions would just die out more quickly than they are. A pox on all religion!

Even the global warming religion?

innocentbystander. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:49am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:13am:

This lefty wishes all religions would just die out more quickly than they are. A pox on all religion!

Even the global warming religion?

No! The religion of total ignorance of which innocentbystander is a disciple and acolyte.

false title of thread -

no where does it mention a flogging.

forgiven for falsehoods

namaste

Bobby. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:13pm:

false title of thread -

no where does it mention a flogging.

forgiven for falsehoods

namaste

Just another BDSM fantasy and wishful thinking by BDSM devotee innocentbystander.

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:16pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:13pm:

false title of thread -

no where does it mention a flogging.

forgiven for falsehoods

namaste

Just another BDSM fantasy and wishful thinking by BDSM devotee innocentbystander.

Well - suppose homos deserve a good whipping anyway.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:20pm:

Unforgiven wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:16pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 12:13pm:

false title of thread -

no where does it mention a flogging.

forgiven for falsehoods

namaste

Just another BDSM fantasy and wishful thinking by BDSM devotee innocentbystander.

Well - suppose homos deserve a good whipping anyway.

Spare the rod and spoil the child.

You weren't spared &

you liked it

not that there's anything wrong with that

Quote:

LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: Multiple investigations are underway into millions of state and federal dollars given to a group of Islamic schools that can't be accounted for.

Pressure is mounting on the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, known as AFIC, to lay bare the financial arrangements behind its eight schools across Australia.

7.30 can reveal the Australian Tax Office is scrutinising all AFIC-run schools and there are also investigations by the police fraud squad and Education Departments.

Former principals, teachers, parents and students have all sounded the alarm, as Alex Mann reports.

It's important that we all stick together.

ALEX MANN, REPORTER: Outside the gates of the Islamic College of South Australia, angry parents are waiting for a meeting with the school's board.

SOURAYA SERHAN (addressing group): Excuse me, can I have everybody's attention, please? Come forward. Come forward.

ALEX MANN: These parents have had enough. They have been through four principals in just over three years and the school's finances are in turmoil.

Souraya Serhan says her children's education is suffering.

SOURAYA SERHAN (addressing group): Five of us are going in to hear what they have to say.

ALEX MANN: But the board has a list of parents it refuses to see and Souraya Serhan is on it.

SOURAYA SERHAN (holding up list to group): The banned list. The banned list.

ALEX MANN: The mood quickly shifts and frustrations boil over.

SOURAYA SERHAN (leading chant): What do we want? Board out! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Board out! When do we want it? Now!

ALEX MANN: They're worried by what they see is a more hard-line Islamic approach and gross financial mismanagement.

Souraya says the only way to fix the school is for the board and the school chairman, Farouk Khan, to go.

CROWD (chanting): We need action! We need action!

SOURAYA SERHAN: Of course I'm angry and of course I'm upset, because this isn't helping the community and this isn't helping the parents and this isn't helping the education of the students either.

ALEX MANN (to Farouk Khan): Do you think these parents have legitimate concerns?

FAROUK KHAN, BOARD CHAIRMAN, ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA: The ones who are protesting? No, no, no, Alex. They don't have any legitimate concerns.

CROWD (chanting): We are parents!

SOURAYA SERHAN (leading chant): We are parents!

ALEX MANN: This school is just one of eight Islamic schools run by the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, or AFIC. Those schools receive about $40 million in state and federal funding each year.

In Brisbane and Sydney police have investigated financial irregularities and in Adelaide the school's financial records suggest there has been a massive understatement of Commonwealth grants, with millions not properly accounted for.

CROWD (chanting): We need better education!

ALEX MANN: Kadir Emniyet is one of the four principals sacked by the Adelaide schools board. For the three terms he was there, he was refused access to the school's accounts.

KADIR EMNIYET, EX-PRINCIPAL, ISLAMIC COLLEGE OF S.A.: All the financial side of the school was in Sydney, in the headquarters there. So I didn't see much of the finances and I don't know where the money is spent.

ALEX MANN: He grew concerned as the school's board imposed a more hard-line Islamic approach and a head scarf rule for all female teachers, even non-Muslims.

KADIR EMNIYET: This dress code was removed from the Australian Islamic College of SA. And to reintroduce it by force is not right.

ALEX MANN: Instead, Kadir allowed some women to wear a beanie. He was sacked for opposing the board's intervention.

MUBARAK NOOR, DR., EX-PRINCIPAL, BRISBANE ISLAMIC COLLEGE: The regularities have descended to all AFIC schools and now they're using all the AFIC schools as cash cows.

And this money: we don't know where it's going. Some ends up with AFIC and some in a black hole.

ALEX MANN: Dr Mubarak Noor is determined to get to the bottom of that black hole. He was the principal of the AFIC-run Brisbane Islamic College for a decade. Two months ago he was sacked after accusing the school of falsifying loans worth almost $1 million.

MUBARAK NOOR: So that prompted me to download financial statements of all AFIC schools and go through it school by school. And of all the AFIC schools that I've gone through so far, I think SA stands out.

ALEX MANN: Dr Noor uncovered millions of dollars in financial discrepancies and unexplained loans to AFIC. He was so alarmed that last night he took his findings to police in Adelaide.

MUBARAK NOOR: They said we handle different crimes - theft, murders, rape - but we haven't seen money this big gone missing, you know. So...

ALEX MANN: That matter has now been referred to the fraud squad.

At the Adelaide school, board chairman Farouk Khan seems oblivious to the growing scandal.

FAROUK KHAN (leading school chant in playground): Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

SCHOOL STUDENTS (chanting): Oi, oi, oi!

FAROUK KHAN: Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!

SCHOOL STUDENTS: Oi, oi, oi!

FAROUK KHAN: Mate, I tell you what: you give me millions of dollars. I love this job and I work with my Islamic community. This is it. That's why I'm here. I'm for them. Because I love them. Yes........

Quote:

Claims of sacking ‘hit list’ at Islamic College

A FORMER Islamic College of SA principal says school board chairman Farouk Khan verbally gave him a “hit list” of staff to sack based on unfounded allegations - including that one was an ASIO agent and another a paedophile.

innocentbystander. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:49am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:13am:

This lefty wishes all religions would just die out more quickly than they are. A pox on all religion!

Even the global warming religion?

AGW is scientific fact.

You don’t want to believe in AGW because of ideology.

You quoting about the Elder Brethern or Islam, Sprinty? The EB is MUCH more successful at hiding its foulness than any other religious scum group.

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 9:51pm:

You quoting about the Elder Brethern or Islam, Sprinty? The EB is MUCH more successful at hiding its foulness than any other religious scum group.

That's Exclusive Bretheren.

innocentbystander. wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:49am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 11:13am:

This lefty wishes all religions would just die out more quickly than they are. A pox on all religion!

Even the global warming religion?

:) :) :)

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 9:51pm:

You quoting about the Elder Brethern or Islam, Sprinty? The EB is MUCH more successful at hiding its foulness than any other religious scum group.

so that should win brownie points.....

you see monk

its not religion its INTOLERANCE thats the problem..

of which you appear to have a BIG DOSE of.. :( :(

Gnads wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 10:41am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 9:51pm:

You quoting about the Elder Brethern or Islam, Sprinty? The EB is MUCH more successful at hiding its foulness than any other religious scum group.

That's Exclusive Bretheren.

Who cares? One foul religion or another.

cods wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 11:00am:

Jovial Monk wrote on Sep 19^th, 2015 at 9:51pm:

You quoting about the Elder Brethern or Islam, Sprinty? The EB is MUCH more successful at hiding its foulness than any other religious scum group.

so that should win brownie points.....

you see monk

its not religion its INTOLERANCE thats the problem..

of which you appear to have a BIG DOSE of.. :( :(

No, just know religion is at the base of a lot of wars, persecution, intolerance, splitting up of families etc. Just calling it as it is.

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Booby?

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Did you buy a leather jacket at Myer today, Booby?

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:42pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Did you buy a leather jacket at Myer today, Bobby?

I was gunna buy one just like that one but
when I found out that queers like you
might be attracted to me - I declined.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:44pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:42pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Did you buy a leather jacket at Myer today, Bobby?

I was gunna buy one just like that one but
when I found out that queers like you
might be attracted to me - I declined.

I'm guessing that queers would be attracted to you, no matter what you wear (or don't wear).

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:44pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:42pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Did you buy a leather jacket at Myer today, Bobby?

I was gunna buy one just like that one but
when I found out that queers like you
might be attracted to me - I declined.

I'm guessing that queers would be attracted to you, no matter what you wear (or don't wear).

They do seem to go for me - don't they?
You're always sniffing around & a few others on here are very similar.

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:50pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:46pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:44pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:42pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 7:39pm:

greggerypeccary wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 6:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 5:00pm:

Gay people need electro-aversion therapy.

Are you offering them your electrode, Bobby?

Dear Greggy,

You admitted to being attracted to men in leather jackets.

Greggy is forgiven

namaste

Did you buy a leather jacket at Myer today, Bobby?

I was gunna buy one just like that one but
when I found out that queers like you
might be attracted to me - I declined.

I'm guessing that queers would be attracted to you, no matter what you wear (or don't wear).

They do seem to go for me - don't they?

You give off the vibes, Booby.

Get off the booze Greggy -
real men like me - watch rugby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56Hb632BCCw

Bobby. wrote on Sep 20^th, 2015 at 8:00pm:

Get off the booze Greggy -
real men like me

Yes.

It seems that they do.

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