Wednesday 17 May 2006 AFIC Self Destructing With Factional Infighting by Richard Kerbaj Source: The Australian
Police will be called in to investigate the nation's peak Muslim body amid claims by a former executive of corruption and rorting within the organisation that runs schools and presides over the Islamic faith in Australia.
by Richard Kerbaj Source: The Australian
The nation's peak Muslim body has been accused of covering up a love scandal after a senior worker allegedly downloaded loveography and loveually harbutted two women at the organisation's head office. The Australian Federation of Islamic Councils, which is a key adviser to the federal Government and upholds Muslim standards in the community, was forced to issue a directive to staff that loveography - strictly forbidden in the Koran - should not be accessed at work.
But the worker at the centre of the claims - believed to include lewd language, touching female staff and the downloading of love images at work in front of women - is still employed by the organisation.
And AFIC executives agreed, at a special meeting to discuss the claims by two women, that the matter be buried.
"It was unanimously resolved that this matter be expunged from the normal minutes of the exco (executive committee) meeting and the details retained in the confidential files of AFIC," the minutes to the July 31, 2004, meeting say. Two internal investigators were asked to examine the claims, but the accusations went no further.
