The Advertiser | August 27, 2008
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,24251412-5005962,00.html
PROPONENTS of an Islamic school in south-western Sydney will appeal a local government rejection of the development.
Camden Council voted unanimously in May to reject the proposal to build a 1,200-student school, after months of heated community meetings and the release of an adverse planner’s report.
The report cited traffic and environmental reasons for its decision.
The school’s backer, the Qu’uranic Society, will now appeal the council’s rejection, the Seven Network reports.
Camden mayor Chris Patterson said the council maintained its decision to reject the development.
“Council made its decision based on 100 per cent planning grounds,” he told Seven.
“Council believes it’s made the right decision on those grounds for the specific site.”
The Qu’uranic Society has criticised the council’s decision, saying it is racist.
The society’s grounds of appeal have not been made public and the matter is due before the NSW Land and Environment Court late next month.
Update:
June 6, 2009
The NSW Land and Environment Court has upheld Camden Council’s decision not to allow an Islamic school to be built on the location first proposed. This does not prevent the Qu’uranic Society from applying to build an Islamic school in another location within Camden.
Comment:
I do recall the Mayor of Camden bending over backwards making statements denouncing racists and racism, and all but guaranteeing to give permission to build an Islamic school in a more appropriate area of Camden.
Like most Australian politicians, the Mayor of Camden is a coward. The Muslims recognise the political cowardice and following the methods of all bullies, the proponents of the “religion of peace” will cut off any hand offered, demanding everyone bow down to Muhammad and grant them their desire of world domination, one town or suburb at a time.
For those that do not live in areas that have had a massive influx of immigrants/refugees in the last fifteen years, the area I live in around Marion now has two Mosques within three kilometres of each other. Whenever you go to the shops you see Asian, African and Arabic women and girls in Muslim head-scarves. The route along the railway line has become an area of extreme violence with groups of Aboriginals and Sudanese bashing and robbing men, women and children, and using the train to escape prosecution. Women waiting for trains at night have been raped by Sudanese. People who live along the railway line park their cars in the street at the risk of having them torched – at the rate of least one car a month. Arabic males roam the streets in convoys of hotted up cars causing mayhem wherever they choose to go. And the slow but sure White flight means that eventually the only White people here will be the old, the poor, and those that live so feral that I’m ashamed to recognise them as White.
Welcome to multicultural Australia.
Cailen.