Australian Islamic College is a multi-campus
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, located in
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, Western Australia and
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, South Australia. The school was founded in by Hajji Abdallah Magar, with 50 students. it has students and over 400 staff spread over four
campus
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es, three in the Perth suburbs of
Kewdale,
Thornlie and
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, and one in the Adelaide suburb of
West Croydon.
History
The school was established in 1986 by Abdallah Saad Magar as the Muslim Community School on
Brisbane Street in Perth. In 1990 a second campus was opened in Thornlie to cater for students from grades K-10, and in 1996 a third campus was opened in the northern suburb of Dianella. In 2000 Kewdale was opened on the grounds of the former Kewdale Senior High School. On 22 June 2017, the Adelaide campus was opened on the site of the former
Islamic College of South Australia
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It has been a working school since 1997 but opened in 1926, where it first set up next to the Wa ...
in the Adelaide suburb of West Croydon.
Controversies
In 2007, Australian Islamic College was raided by 28 fraud squad officers and ten investigators from the
Department of Education, Science and Training investigations unit.
Abdallah Saad Magar and the Principal Aziz Magdi were charged with
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offences against the governments of
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and
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.
The charges related to falsifying records to indicate that more students were attending the school than actually were and thereby obtaining money for the school to which they were not entitled. The amount that was alleged to have been obtained fraudulently was A$3.16 million.
Both were found guilty in the
District Court on 31 March 2010. Abdallah Saad Magar appealed the conviction to the
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, however his application was denied.
In June 2010, Australian Islamic College posted an article in ''Wake Up Call'', issue 172, written by a year 12 student defending the misappropriation of funds. The article stated that "when a man does all this
raudfor Islam in the western society, when he does it for the guidance of the Muslim childrenI cannot call that fraud".
See also
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Education in Australia
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List of schools in the Perth metropolitan area
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Islam in Australia
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{{Islamic schools in Australia
Private primary schools in Perth, Western Australia
Private primary schools in Adelaide
Islamic schools in Australia
Educational institutions established in 1986
Private secondary schools in Perth, Western Australia
Private secondary schools in Adelaide
1986 establishments in Australia