Do other private schools such as the Catholic or Church of England schools receive such largesse?

Andrew Bolt

What is going on here?

A senior official in the Australian Federation of Islamic Councils has been accused of attempting to embezzle hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Islamic College of Brisbane and falsifying school loans worth almost $1.2million…

The school receives about 80 per cent of its funding from taxpayers…

Islamic schools around Australia — including the nation’s largest, Malek Fahd in Sydney’s southwest — have been involved in numerous financial scandals.

Malek Fahd was forced to repay $9m to taxpayers after The Australian revealed it had been funnelling profits to AFIC.

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One Lefty recently told me when I asked why they’re so hard on the church and can’t suck up enough to Islam: “you gotta kick them when they’re down”. The reality is that there is far more child abuse in Islam because their religion not only permits it, its their ‘prophet’Muhammad, who did it and therefore it can’t be wrong.  The pedophile churchmen who are accused of wrongdoing cannot rely on scripture for support.  They did wrong,  against the law and against their religion.

University reform: no to segregating women

Andrew Bolt

Small mercies. Barry Glover, vice chancellor of the University of Western Sydney, will no longer allow the segregation of women at functions at his university:

THE students were wrong. Without a doubt, the representatives of the Muslim Students’ ­Association (MSA) at UWS’s Parramatta campus made a mistake in requesting the segregation of men and women at a recent event.

A recent article in The Daily Telegraph implied the university tolerates a form of subtle sexism by virtue of what occurred. The university rejects this assertion.

UWS has never condoned gender segregation, and all of our students are well aware of this.

It will not recur at any future event held on our campuses by any student or community group.

No such luck in the UK:

“They are everywhere,” Palmyra resident says of ISIS fighters after takeover of Syrian city. 

A complete failure of leadership

Andrew Bolt

Which, in the queer and twisted mind of Obama, is the desired outcome:

Obama’s war is failing. Islamic State advances

The Obama-led war in Syria and Iraq is going very badly:

ISLAMIC State group jihadists seized Syria’s Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be “an enormous loss to humanity”.

The capture of Palmyra, a 2000-year-old metropolis, reportedly leaves more than half of Syria under IS control and comes days after the group also expanded its control in Iraq.

Think: if we spent our entire arts budget for one year on sending soldiers to save Palmyra instead, we’d probably leave the arts richer.

Then there’s the fall of Ramadi this week:

The way many Iraqis view it, the collapse of the Ramadi garrison—an event in which barely a few hundred Islamic State militants routed a vastly more numerous Iraqi security force—equals in its significance the fall of Iraq’s second-largest city of Mosul last summer. That milestone forced President Barack Obama to send troops to Iraq just 2½ years after withdrawing them.

“What happened is a major catastrophe,” said prominent Iraqi lawmaker Dhiaa al-Assadi…

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Conservatives Attack, by Tim Blair

The BBC reports an attempted murder in Turkey:

A Turkish woman who has been taking part in a talent show on national TV has been shot in the head while rehearsing at home, Turkish media say.

Mutlu Kaya, 19, was in a critical condition after being shot in Diyarbakir province early on Monday.

What monsters are responsible for this? The BBC has an interesting theory:

Diyarbakir is a conservative region in south-east Turkey and Ms Kaya had reportedly received death threats for singing on the show …

The attack on Mutlu Kaya took place in Diyarbakir, a city where the Kurdish women’s movement is very strong … But, despite playing a prominent role in society and politics, women are still under pressure from the traditional structures of conservative society.

That is why news stories about prominent female fighters in the Kurdish regions of Turkey and Syria go hand in hand with news stories of “honour killings” …

For a poor girl living with her family in a run-down one bedroom flat, attracting national media attention could have triggered a fatal conservative social backlash.

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