Muslim Community Radio (
call sign
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2MFM) is a
community radio
Community radio is a radio service offering a third model of radio broadcasting in addition to commercial and public broadcasting. Community stations serve geographic communities and communities of interest. They broadcast content that is popula ...
station based in
Bankstown
Bankstown is a suburb south west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 16 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district and is located in the local government area of the City of Canterbury-Bankstown, hav ...
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New South Wales
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Australia, and broadcasts to Sydney on a citywide licence. It is a
volunteer
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-run organisation and is funded mostly through listener support.
History
The station is linked with
Darulfatwa - Islamic High Council of Australia. The station first broadcast under a temporary licence during
Ramadan and
Dhu al-Hijjah beginning in 1995 and then added a weekly Friday broadcast in 1997. A full community broadcasting licence was granted on 24 May 2001. In 2011, the
Australian National Imams Council
The Australian National Imams Council (ANIC) was formed in 2006 during a meeting of more than 80 Sunni imams which had gathered to discuss the crisis created by comments made by Taj El-Din Hilaly. In 2011, they requested that the Darulfatwa-sup ...
requested that the radio station not have its licence renewed due to ties with
Al-Ahbash
Al-Ahbash ( ar, الأحباش, , en, "The Ethiopians"), also known as the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects ( ar, جمعية المشاريع الخيرية الإسلامية, , AICP) is a neo-traditionalist Sufi religious movem ...
and because of its promotion of "sectarian fringe views".
However, the
Australian Communications and Media Authority granted a five-year license in 2011, which drew criticism from Islamic groups.
Programming
Muslim Community Radio broadcasts primarily in Arabic and English. It also offers a multicultural and multilingual service, broadcasting in Indonesian, Turkish, Urdu and in the Iraqi dialect. The station covers Islamic religious teaching and
festivals
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along with educational and cultural programming.
See also
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List of radio stations in Australia
References
External links
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Radio stations in Sydney
Community radio stations in Australia
Islamic radio stations in Australia
Radio stations established in 1995
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