Source: Independent Online
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Hundreds of people have protested against the building of a new Islamic school on the outskirts of Australia's largest city, local officials said on Tuesday.
Around 1 000 people held a meeting late on Monday to object to the proposal by the Quranic Society to build the 1 200-place school in Camden, a satellite town southwest of Sydney.
Large parts of southern Sydney are now heavily populated by Middle Eastern migrants, many of them Iraqi Muslims, but opponents deny any anti-Muslim bias.
"Let the people decide," Emil Frenchevich, the organiser of Monday's meeting, told national radio.
Another protester, local lawmaker Pat Farmer, said: "It's more an issue of council consulting with the local people in their area to be able to have a say in what goes in their area."