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January 30, 2007

Australia: Islamic College Raided By Police

The Islamic College of Australia has made the news before. In April 2006, when its deputy principal, Yahya Ibrahim, was refused entry to the United States. Canadian-born Ibrahim has worked as a translator for Abdulrahman al-Sudeis, senior imam of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, who has condemned Jews as "apes and pigs". Yahya himself has said in his sermons, widely available on CD and on the internet: "Allah tells us never, never will the Jews and the Christians be satisfied or content or pleased with you until you follow them and their religion."

Yahya teaches geography and math at Kewdale High School in Perth, which is one of the Islamic College of Australia's three campuses. There are other campuses in Dianella and Thornlie in the north of Perth.

The Australian reports that the three campuses have been raided by police fraud squad officers and government investigators early on Tuesday morning. Three truck-loads of computers and documents were taken from the campuses and the headquarters of the college at Booragoon in Perth.

The Islamic college, which has 2,000 students up to the age of 12 and 250 teachers, received $13.3 million Aus ($10,24 million US) in funding from the government last year. The school was founded in 1986 by Abdallah Magar.

The raid has happened because it is suspected that the college has been fraudulent with its use of subsidies. This may have happened by "double counting" students, "ghosting" students or inflating rent payments, the Australian suggests, quoting a detective inspector from the Commercial Crime Division who said: "You can do all sorts of things hypothetically."

The school appears to be the first educational establishment in Western Australia state to have been subjected to such a raid.

Posted by Giraldus Cambrensis at January 30, 2007 9:43 AM

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