Sheikh Ahmad Jundi has resigned from an Islamic college after questions from the Herald about his support for the Iran-backed group in two speeches.
A longstanding board member of a Sydney Islamic school has resigned after video emerged of him supporting Hezbollah and its assassinated leader Hassan Nasrallah.
He said on Tuesday he was not aware Hezbollah had been designated as a terrorist organisation, he did not support violence and respected Australian law. His resignation came just hours after he was asked questions by theand follows days of intense political debate about whether protesters carrying Hezbollah flags and portraits of Nasrallah should be prosecuted.
“The college cannot be held to account for the personal views of individuals who have no operational role in the school.” Jundi, with a school banner hanging on the wall behind him, began by calling in Arabic for a minute of silence for “the souls of the innocent martyrs who fell at the hands of the criminal Zionist forces led by America and its allies”.
Federal Education Minister Jason Clare, whose electorate includes Al Sadiq’s second campus at Yagoona, said schools were required to meet “fit and proper person requirements” under the Australian Education Act. A spokesman for the Association of Independent Schools of NSW said all member schools were expected to adhere to Australian laws.Jundi, as a representative of the Moslem Alawi Society Sydney, was one of nine signatories to a statement last month denouncing “the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian and Lebanese people”.
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