Australia: Perth Imam Kamran Tahir tackling Islamophobia over coffee


"That was, one can say, an epiphany to me that we need to go out and we need to do this because day by day we are seeing there is more Islamophobia."

Times of Ahmad | News Watch | AU Desk
Source/Credit: ABC News
By Claire Moodie | July 20, 2017

"I'm a Muslim, ask me anything"

Australia's youngest Imam doesn't see the need for Muslim schools, and he'd rather shake a woman's hand than cause offence.

He's even happy for cameras to be installed in his Perth mosque and has pledged to resign if there's any trace of extremism.

Kamran Tahir is flat out trying to break down the negative stereotypes he believes are contributing to growing Islamophobia in Australia.

The 26-year-old was sent to Western Australia from Sydney three months ago by his Ahmadiyya community to set up a new mosque at a disused ice rink in Perth's southern suburbs.
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